Comments for WhoisIreland Review http://blog.whoisireland.com Search Engines, Domains, Statistics and Analysis Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:44:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 Comment on .mobi Registrations Doing Much Better Than Expected by John http://blog.whoisireland.com/2008/12/31/mobi-registrations-doing-much-better-than-expected/#comment-226503 Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:32:52 +0000 http://blog.whoisireland.com/2008/12/31/mobi-registrations-doing-much-better-than-expected/#comment-226503 When is the .BustBytheGovernment domain coming on stream, should be plenty of takers :( Or the .CroniesBailedOutByGovernmentBuddies that should have a good take uo as well. When is the .BustBytheGovernment domain coming on stream, should be plenty of takers :(

Or the .CroniesBailedOutByGovernmentBuddies that should have a good take uo as well.

]]> Comment on .mobi Registrations Doing Much Better Than Expected by Snoopy http://blog.whoisireland.com/2008/12/31/mobi-registrations-doing-much-better-than-expected/#comment-221509 Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:15:44 +0000 http://blog.whoisireland.com/2008/12/31/mobi-registrations-doing-much-better-than-expected/#comment-221509 9.5% is not a good result. It is possibly the biggest decline a gtld has ever seen. As a comparison .biz dropped 9% after the anniversary, .info the same 9% - that was from the very high to the very low. Both those extensions have been flops, especially .biz. .mobi has already exceed those levels and there is still quite alot to be worked through the systems by the sounds of it. In terms of significance a 9% in registration is huge, even during the .com bust .com registration only fell 5%, but actual values in the aftermarket fell by about 90%. When a market implodes it is followed by a much smaller fall in registrations, they are rather "sticky", some people hang on for years before being willing to let names expire. 9.5% is not a good result. It is possibly the biggest decline a gtld has ever seen.

As a comparison .biz dropped 9% after the anniversary, .info the same 9% - that was from the very high to the very low. Both those extensions have been flops, especially .biz.

.mobi has already exceed those levels and there is still quite alot to be worked through the systems by the sounds of it. In terms of significance a 9% in registration is huge, even during the .com bust .com registration only fell 5%, but actual values in the aftermarket fell by about 90%. When a market implodes it is followed by a much smaller fall in registrations, they are rather “sticky”, some people hang on for years before being willing to let names expire.

]]> Comment on New Domain History Site www.hosterstats.com by Michele http://blog.whoisireland.com/2008/10/02/new-domain-history-site-wwwhosterstatscom/#comment-218575 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:21:10 +0000 http://blog.whoisireland.com/2008/10/02/new-domain-history-site-wwwhosterstatscom/#comment-218575 John It's a really nice idea. The UI needs some tweaking to make it more "human friendly", but what you've got already is a damn good start Michele John

It’s a really nice idea. The UI needs some tweaking to make it more “human friendly”, but what you’ve got already is a damn good start

Michele

]]> Comment on New Domain History Site www.hosterstats.com by John McCormac http://blog.whoisireland.com/2008/10/02/new-domain-history-site-wwwhosterstatscom/#comment-218126 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:38:33 +0000 http://blog.whoisireland.com/2008/10/02/new-domain-history-site-wwwhosterstatscom/#comment-218126 Thanks Richard, I had the target=new for all pages but I've removed that for the main navigation links (apart from the external whois lookups). The only ones that should open in new windows/tabs should be the cross TLD comparisons. As for the API, I've had enough trouble figuring out how to make it work in PHP. :) Thanks Richard,
I had the target=new for all pages but I’ve removed that for the main navigation links (apart from the external whois lookups). The only ones that should open in new windows/tabs should be the cross TLD comparisons.

As for the API, I’ve had enough trouble figuring out how to make it work in PHP. :)

]]> Comment on New Domain History Site www.hosterstats.com by John McCormac http://blog.whoisireland.com/2008/10/02/new-domain-history-site-wwwhosterstatscom/#comment-218119 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:31:01 +0000 http://blog.whoisireland.com/2008/10/02/new-domain-history-site-wwwhosterstatscom/#comment-218119 It isn't broken Philip, Basically the Epoch is the snapshot of the hosters when tracking began. DCU still uses TCD's nameservers if you look at the current DNS. :) I think I might need to explain it better on the site. Basically a domain is considered as being "hosted" by a hoster when it appears on that hoster's nameservers. There isn't any recorded movements since the Epoch snapshot. It isn’t broken Philip,
Basically the Epoch is the snapshot of the hosters when tracking began. DCU still uses TCD’s nameservers if you look at the current DNS. :) I think I might need to explain it better on the site. Basically a domain is considered as being “hosted” by a hoster when it appears on that hoster’s nameservers. There isn’t any recorded movements since the Epoch snapshot.

]]> Comment on New Domain History Site www.hosterstats.com by Philip Reynolds http://blog.whoisireland.com/2008/10/02/new-domain-history-site-wwwhosterstatscom/#comment-218113 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:22:11 +0000 http://blog.whoisireland.com/2008/10/02/new-domain-history-site-wwwhosterstatscom/#comment-218113 This looks like you're expecting every site to have a "previous hoster" and it breaks when it doesn't. I don't think dcu.ie was ever "previously hosted" by tcd.ie ... but it's nameservers have and continue to be served by the "previous hosters" on that list. Dodgy for loop maybe? :) http://www.hosterstats.com/historicaldns.php?domain=dcu.ie This looks like you’re expecting every site to have a “previous hoster” and it breaks when it doesn’t.

I don’t think dcu.ie was ever “previously hosted” by tcd.ie … but it’s nameservers have and continue to be served by the “previous hosters” on that list. Dodgy for loop maybe? :)

http://www.hosterstats.com/historicaldns.php?domain=dcu.ie

]]> Comment on New Domain History Site www.hosterstats.com by Richard Hearne http://blog.whoisireland.com/2008/10/02/new-domain-history-site-wwwhosterstatscom/#comment-218085 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:39:44 +0000 http://blog.whoisireland.com/2008/10/02/new-domain-history-site-wwwhosterstatscom/#comment-218085 One suggestion - change the link behaviour to target self. All the new windows are quite annoying. Other than that looks very interesting. Lots and lots of data behind that I'm sure :) One suggestion - change the link behaviour to target self. All the new windows are quite annoying.

Other than that looks very interesting. Lots and lots of data behind that I’m sure :)

]]> Comment on New Domain History Site www.hosterstats.com by Richard Hearne http://blog.whoisireland.com/2008/10/02/new-domain-history-site-wwwhosterstatscom/#comment-218076 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:31:34 +0000 http://blog.whoisireland.com/2008/10/02/new-domain-history-site-wwwhosterstatscom/#comment-218076 Excellent :) When do we get the API? :D Excellent :)

When do we get the API? :D

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