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Industry News

Domain Name Industry Brief – Stats for July’12

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The latest Verisign Domain Name Industry Brief is out. Here are key stats and numbers from the same:

Overview

  • The first quarter of 2012 closed with a base of more than 233 million domain name registrations across all Top-Level Domains
  • This is an increase of 7.5 million domains, or 3.3 percent, over the fourth quarter of 2011
  • Overall, registrations have grown by 23 million, a 11% increase since the first quarter of 2011
  • The ccTLD pool too has grown by 4.8% and stands at 94.9 million domain names
  • This is a 16.2% increase year over year in the ccTLD base
  • The order of the top TLDs in terms of zone size did not change when compared to the last quarter. The order remains as: .com, .de, .net, .uk, .org, .info, .tk, .nl, .ru and .eu.

Growth in Total Domain Name Registrations



You can view the entire Verisign Report here.

Industry News

Domain Name Industry Brief – 2012

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Here are quick stats from Verisign’s latest Domain Name Industry Brief.

The fourth quarter of 2011 closed with a base of 225 million+ domain name registrations across all Top Level Domains (TLDs). This amounts to an increase of 5.9 million domain names, or 2.7 percent over the third quarter.

The base of Country Code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs) was 90.6 million domain names. This is a 4.2 percent increase quarter over quarter, and a 13.2 percent increase year over year in the base.

.COM and .NET TLDs experienced aggregate growth, reaching a combined total of 113.8 million domain names in the fourth quarter of 2011. This represents approximately a 2 percent increase in the base over the third quarter of 2011 and an 8 percent increase over the same quarter in 2010.

There is no change in the order of the top 10 TLDs in the fourth quarter of 2011. The order is: .COM, .DE, .NET, .UK, .ORG, .INFO, .TK, .NL, .RU and .EU.

Total Domain Name Registrations


You can view the entire Verisign Report here.

Pic Courtesy: Verisign DNIB Report

Announcements, Current Promos, Industry News, Registries

VeriSign’s Registry Fee Hike – In Retrospect

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The Registry fee for .COM and .NET will increase 2 days from now. The fee for .COM domain names have increased from $7.34 to $7.85 and the fees for .NET domain names have increased from $5.40 to $5.86.

This is the last of the 4 price hikes that Verisign is entitled to, under contract with ICANN.

Here’s a quick summary of the price changes so far:

Why does Verisign keep increasing .COM/.NET fees?

According to them; in the last five years, the volume of DNS queries on Verisign’s global Internet infrastructure has more than doubled, increasing to an average daily query load of 57 billion in the first quarter of 2011. This daily number was ~30 billion queries on average in 2007 and was a miniscule of 1 billion queries per day back in 1999.

The additional fees help the company bolster and scale infrastructure and platforms to ensure smooth functioning of these systems.

* Data sourced from Verisign.com

Announcements, Voice of LogicBoxes

The Voice of LogicBoxes – Vol. 2

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Hello folks!

Here’s the second volume of the Voice of LogicBoxes – our bi-annual newsletter on OrderBox updates and other changes that affect your Registrar business. This volume covers the latter half of 2011.

SYSTEM UPDATES

  • We’ve added 2 new domain extensions to the system – .XXX, .AU

  • The look and feel of the Registrar, Reseller and Customer control panels are in the process of being completely re-designed. As a precursor to this, we’ve already made changes to the CSS to give the header, menu and the widgets a modern and cleaner look

  • As part of our ongoing exercise to revamp OrderBox, we’ve clubbed all branding-related tasks for Registrars under one roof with the introduction of “Branding Settings”. Older, text-heavy pages have been given a cleaner, crisper and lighter look

  • We’ve also initiated a refactoring exercise for our Bulk Tools where we started with the most heavily-used Bulk Renewals and Registrations. Under this, we refactored the backend code as well as enhanced front-end flows of the Bulk Renewal process. Based on feedback received from Partners, we are currently working on further enhancements to the Bulk Renewal process where we will be attempting to make the flows more intuitive for Customers too

  • As part of our initiative to build out our Hosting product portfolio, we’ve launched Multi-Domain Hosting (MDH) on our Linux platform. With this product, you can now host multiple domains under one cPanel account.

  • For managing feedback, we’ve restarted UserVoice. Our Product Managers are actively interacting with the Registrar Community to prioritise on features and upgrades that need to be added to the system

OTHER ACTIVITIES

  • We conducted two webinars in association with Verisign folks:
    1. A detailed walkthrough of the “Verisign Customer Center”
    2. “Verisign New Unit Marketing Promo” that gave Registrars detailed information on upcoming promotions in 2012

  • We also conducted a webinar in conjunction with ICM Registry – the .XXX registry to spread awareness about the new .XXX domain name

  • We also attended hugely popular conferences like HostingCon, Parallels APAC and the ICANN meet at Senegal. We’ll most probably be attending these events again, so if you want to meet us at these events in 2012, let us know

If you have any feedback or would like to hear more about the content of this edition, do let us know!

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Registries

Verisign Domain Name Industry Brief – Dec’11

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The latest Domain Name Industry Brief by Verisign is out. Here’s a list of key highlights from the report:

Overview

  • Q3’2011 closed with nearly 220 Million domain registrations across all TLDs
  • This is an increase of 4.9 Million domains (2.3%) over the second quarter
  • The ccTLD base grew to 86.9 million domain names, a 2.7% increase quarter over quarter and a 9.8% increase year over year in the base

Top 10 TLDs

  • The 6 largest TLDs in terms of base size are .COM, .DE, .NET, .UK, .ORG and .INFO
  • .TK is a surprise entry in 7th postion; primarily because .tk domains are available for free
  • .NL, .RU and .EU are the last 3 TLDs (in order) that make it to the Top 10 TLD list
  • Notably, .CN has slipped out of the Top 10 TLD list

Total Domain Name Registrations

You can view the entire Verisign Report here.

Pic Courtesy Verisign DNIB Report