Startup Trends

Domain and naming trends among startups featured on BetaList over time.

TLD Popularity by Year

Risers & Fallers

Average market share change comparing the last 3 years to the 3 years before.

Rising

.ai

+7.8pp 7.3% → 15.1%

.app

+1.4pp 8.0% → 9.4%

.dev

+0.8pp 1.3% → 2.1%

.tech

+0.8pp 0.4% → 1.2%

.net

+0.6pp 0.8% → 1.4%

Falling

.io

-5.4pp 15.1% → 9.7%

.co

-3.2pp 6.6% → 3.4%

.com

-0.9pp 42.7% → 41.8%

.so

-0.6pp 1.5% → 0.9%

.xyz

-0.4pp 1.2% → 0.7%

Popular Suffixes

% of featured startups with each domain name suffix.

Popular Prefixes

% of featured startups with each domain name prefix.

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Domain Name Length

Distribution of domain name lengths (excluding TLD) over time.

Top TLDs

.com

14,119 startups

.io

3,337 startups

.co

1,828 startups

.ai

1,650 startups

.app

1,327 startups

.me

483 startups

.net

375 startups

.dev

217 startups

.org

185 startups