Yes, there are 10 million of these, and only a fraction are registered. Still, it's interesting to look at whether people are registering and holding these domains. When we last checked, in January of this year, about 3 percent were registered, meaning about 300,000 domains.
We looked again, and did 20 random bulk searches of 500 domains. The results show a noticeable increase from earlier in the year. Of all the domains we searched, 95.45% were available, so around 450,000 domains were registered. This represents an increase of approximately 150,000 registered domains, or a 50% increase in the year. Of course, this is within the margin of error, so it may not mean much, and we'll keep a close watch on these numbers.
But if it does show a significant increase, it would suggest that 7N.com registration did even better than 6N.com registration in 2018 on an absolute basis, which is pretty remarkable. Why would this be? Due to the significant number of available 7N.com's, there is surely a much higher percentage of premium number strings, whereas for the 6N.com's, all the best numbers have been taken. Suggests that the market may be preferring quality at this point.
Here are the results from the 20 bulk searches:
470 94.00%
481 96.20%
483 96.60%
467 93.40%
482 96.40%
491 98.20%
481 96.20%
483 96.60%
454 90.80%
484 96.80%
472 94.40%
478 95.60%
475 95.00%
478 95.60%
472 94.40%
482 96.40%
473 94.60%
477 95.40%
483 96.60%
479 95.80%