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

+1.3pp 8.0% → 9.3%

.dev

+0.9pp 1.3% → 2.1%

.tech

+0.8pp 0.4% → 1.2%

.net

+0.7pp 0.8% → 1.5%

Falling

.io

-5.5pp 15.0% → 9.6%

.co

-3.1pp 6.5% → 3.4%

.com

-0.8pp 42.7% → 41.9%

.so

-0.6pp 1.5% → 0.9%

.xyz

-0.4pp 1.2% → 0.8%

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

13,698 startups

.io

3,250 startups

.co

1,812 startups

.ai

1,490 startups

.app

1,218 startups

.me

479 startups

.net

361 startups

.dev

206 startups

.org

171 startups