Domain hosting statistics for over 2.9 million hosters have been added to www.hosterstats.com . The statistics cover 2000 to 2009 and provide Flash graphs for all the major trends. The growth of the PPC parking companies show the changing face of the domain business.
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The stats database is searchable by the domain name of the hoster.
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Written by John McCormac on June 27th, 2009 with no comments.
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Earlier this year, people were predicting that the dot mobi extension would be wiped out when it came to the Landrush Anniversary (26 September 2008). They were wrong.
As of this morning’s zone file (31 December 2008) , the .mobi count of 867629 is off only 9.54% since the Landrush Anniversary count of 959154. Purely on domain registration volume the dot mobi extension is doing much better than expected.
Traditionally the Landrush anniversary for any new Top Level Domain marks the start of the JunkDump phase. This is when the highly speculative domains registered during the landrush phase and failed to sell are dropped. Many of these domains are domains registered in the new TLD because they exist in .com or because they have a supposed rarity value. The classic example of how a TLD develops during the landrush phase is the graph of the dot asia growth for 2008 . It shows how the bulk of a TLD’s domain registrations occur in the first three months of a TLD’s opening for unrestricted registration.
The dot mobi extension was launched during the peak of the recent domain registration bubble. The .eu fiasco had just happened in April/May/June 2006 and dot mobi was another highly speculative venture but one with a far better management than that of .eu ccTLD. The two year initial registration period for .mobi landrush domains offset the JunkDump phase by a year.
Since 26 September 2008, 154006 dot mobi domains have dropped out of the zone file. But in that period 62481 new domains have appeared in the zone file. This in an indication that there is still a demand for .mobi domains. A number of larger drop catchers such as Snapnames.com and Pool.com have started providing .mobi dropcatching services.
The 2009 market for domain names is going to be tough and even .com will take a hit as PPC revenues fall. However with mobile internet becoming more popular, dot mobi could find itself pushed along with the trend. It will, like many other niche TLDs find itself under pressure and the negative growth will continue for a while yet.
Tags: Irishblogs,dot Mobi, .mobi, .asia, Domains, Internet Statistics, DNS, mobi Domain Statistics
Written by John McCormac on December 31st, 2008 with 2 comments.
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Acquiring ccTLD domain name registration statistics is quite a different task from dealing with gTLDs like .com or .net etc. The gTLDs provide zonefile access and it is possible to build detailed and accurate statistical models of gTLD registrations. Some ccTLD registries publish their domain name counts. However for various reasons, the lack of zonefile access means that some ccTLDs are unknown territories. The statistics for 54 ccTLDs, including those of the super ccTLDs, have now been published on the HosterStats 2008 Domain Name Counts page. While some of the registries have yet to reply to requests for statistics, there is a very interesting trend developing in the numbers of ccTLD versus gTLD registrations - without domain tasting, the indications are that as a group ccTLDs are beginning to equal and perhaps outnumber new gTLD registrations. This does not mean that the ccTLDs will overtake the gTLDs any time soon. It does mean that without domain tasting, the market in some countries has shifted towards ccTLDs. As markets develop in other countries, they reach a point where the number of local ccTLD domains will exceed the number of locally registered .com and gTLD domains. This tipping point is linked to the market and the level of broadband penetration in that country.
Tags: Irishblogs,Domain History, Domain Tasting, ccTLD Domains, Domains, Internet Statistics, DNS, ccTLD Domain Statistics
Written by John McCormac on October 12th, 2008 with no comments.
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I’ve launched a new domain history website www.hosterstats.com It covers the DNS history of over 210 million domains covering com / net / org / biz / info / mobi /asia / ie / eu /co.uk domains. The historical DNS database covers domains back to 2000. There is also the statistical history for each Top Level Domain by year back to 2004.
Tags: Irishblogs,Domain History, Domain Tasting, Domains, Internet Statistics, DNS, domainnames
Written by John McCormac on October 2nd, 2008 with 6 comments.
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ICANN voted to accept its budget for Fiscal Year 2009. The budget document contains a proposal to impose the transaction fee of $0.20 on domains deleted during the Add Grace Period. The fee will be applied to transactions exceeding 10% of that registrar’s net new registrations in any month or 50 domains, whichever is the greater. The “net new registrations” is defined in as the total new registrations less domains deleted during AGP. For ICANN, FY2009 starts on 01/July/2008. This means that the transaction fee will apply from 01/July/2008 onwards. Of most interest will be its impact on the .com and .net TLDs.
The effect of the transaction fee on excess AGP deletions will be easy to see. The majority of domain tasters will have to reconsider their strategy. Auction operations will also be deterred from sucking up most of the deleting domains.
All that can be hoped for now is that it will be properly implemented and ICANN will not waste more time waffling. It has already damaged the domain industry enough by not acting sooner. This belated action will curtail Domain Tasting. It will not kill it. But rather it will force domain tasters to evolve. However it will make more domains available and that will have a serious impact on the domainer community because it may lower valuations on currently registered domains.
Tags: Irishblogs,Cybersquatting, Domain Tasting, Domains, cybersquatters, Internet Statistics, Cyberwarehousing, domainnames
Written by John McCormac on June 26th, 2008 with 2 comments.
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The number of Cyprus registered domains has fallen dramatically since the first of the month. On 01 April 2008 it was 90,363. This morning (29 April) it is 52,509. A quick check of some Ovido Limited domains registered during the April 2006 landrush shows that they are now in Quarantine and scheduled for deletion.
The incompetence of Eurid management is quite staggering. How a bunch of people who had only ever run a third rate, mickey mouse ccTLD ever got the contract to run the .eu ccTLD is a mystery. The result was the mess that is .eu ccTLD.
The numbers for Ireland have increased dramatically as well. From 27,998 on 01 March 2008 to 52,016 on 29 April 2008. This is due to Dotster using an Irish front company to hide over 20K .eu domains that it had cyberwarehoused. But the Eurid management is so utterly incompetent that it has taken no action against this cyberwarehousing operation either.
But then a direct navigation operation like the Ovidio Syndicate dumping .eu domains is not so much the rats leaving the sinking ship (nobody from Eurid management has resigned or retired yet) as a vote of confidence in .eu ccTLD. A direct navigation operation depends on type-in traffic. The user has to type the domain into the browser navigation bar in the hope the site exists. The .eu has such a low profile in the EU that it is not even a third choice domain for new registrants. In terms of public recognition it is irrelevant. Direct Navigation networks tend to work best in successful TLDs. The .eu ccTLD is not a successful TLD.
The sooner Eurid is stripped of the contract to run .eu ccTLD, the better. But then the European Commission probably don’t want to upset their fellow Brussels cronies and their great and successful cesspit of a ccTLD.
Tags: Irishblogs,Eurid, .eu Statistics, Domains, searchengines, Internet Statistics, Cyberwarehousing, domainnames
Written by John McCormac on April 29th, 2008 with 2 comments.
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The latest WhoisIreland.com .eu web survey shows that the .eu ccTLD is in serious trouble. Out of 1723638 websites checked, only 13.37% of sites were active/unique. As a ccTLD for Europe, it is a disaster zone. Brand registrations accounted for 7.78% of registrations. The percentage of duplicate content sites was 6.02%. The percentage of websites that redirected elsewhere was 16.68%. The percentage of PPC/warehoused websites was 14.22%. The percentage of holding page sites was 16.79%
In terms of use, .eu is way below other ccTLDs. It is a junk extension. While some companies use .eu for a Europe-wide identity it is largely ignored as another example of useless EU bureaucratic corruption and waste in the rest of the European Union. If it wasn’t for German speculation and registrations driving the ccTLD, the .eu would have completely failed long ago.
The post-landrush development that takes place in a well run ccTLD is just not happening in .eu ccTLD. This is due, mainly, to EURid’s incompetent handling of the landrush and Sunrise phases. The small businesses and developers that would have provided that initial development spurt were missing. They were missing because the fools in EURid took no action to prevent .eu being speculated, cyberwarehoused and cybersquatted. The EURid people were simply outclassed by even the simplest of speculators faking the country field in the whois data while including a complete US postal address. Even years later, some of these bogus registrations are still there because EURid is too incompetent to detect them. But then detecting them would reduce the size of the .eu zone and EURid has to keep up the pretence that .eu is a great success for their clueless political masters in the European Commission.
The .eu ccTLD is a failure. It is a failure because of EURid’s utter incompetence in dealing with the cyberwarehousing and cybersquatting issues. These guys were too stupid to realise what was going on when the .eu ccTLD was being stolen by non-EU speculators and cybersquatters. And now .eu is a disaster zone - irrelevant to citizens of the EU and a joke of ccTLD in the industry. Perhaps it would be best if EURid was stripped of the administration of .eu and the ccTLD redelegated to a more competent registry. Otherwise the longterm outlook for .eu is dire.
In real terms, .eu already begun to resemble a third choice TLD like .info or .biz. While the total registrations figure may seem impressive, broken down on a country by country basis and compared against those country’s ccTLD and TLD holdings, .eu is not making any significant inroads into these markets. Even the cyberwarehousers are giving up on .eu ccTLD.
Tags: Irishblogs,Eurid, .eu Statistics, Domains, searchengines, Internet Statistics, Cyberwarehousing, domainnames
Written by John McCormac on January 29th, 2008 with 11 comments.
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According to a post on Bret Fausett’s blog, ICANN has passed a resolution that will end Domain Tasting. It has taken ICANN a long time to deal with the problem. Domain Tasting exploits the Add Grace Period. The AGP is a five day grace period during which a domain could be cancelled without the registrar having to pay for it. This move is long over-due and ICANN has been criticised for not acting promptly to fix the problem.
The AGP was intended to protect the registrars from various fraudulent registrations and obvious customer mistakes. However it was used by unscrupulous operators to sift through millions of domains each day for domains that would monetise well and justify the registration cost. Other operations were registering typos of trademarks on an industrial scale and the Dell Vs Belgium Domains et al is perhaps the first example of a major case being taken against such operations.
ICANN’s move against Domain Tasting was long over-due. The move by Google against monetising domains less than five days old was, perhaps, the trigger that kicked ICANN into bothering to take action.
Tags: Irishblogs,Cybersquatting, Domain Tasting, Domains, cybersquatters, Internet Statistics, Cyberwarehousing, domainnames
Written by John McCormac on January 29th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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