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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

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Catch us at WorldHostingDays ’12!

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The LogicBoxes Team will be attending WorldHostingDays Global 2012 at Rust, Germany.

Siddharth Taliyan, our Senior Sales Manager, will be speaking about ‘The Benefits of ICANN Accreditation’ on March 22nd, 2012 at 4pm, at the event.

The session, titled ‘Demystifying ICANN Accreditation’, will shed more light on the following areas:

  • How much does ICANN Accreditation really end up costing?
  • What are the hidden costs?
  • What regulations do ICANN Accredited Registrars need to abide by?
  • When should I look at getting my company ICANN Accredited?
  • Is ICANN Accreditation really worth it?

    • Siddharth and Daniel will also be available to help with on-the-spot ICANN Accreditation Consultations at Booth #61. They can also assist you with any queries that you might have about becoming your own Domain Registrar.

    You can schedule a meeting with us on our website here. Looking forward to meeting you WHD!

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    .RU Domains Names Available on OrderBox

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    Registrars and partners will now be able to use sell .RU domains from OrderBox.

    Apart from second level .RU domains, third level domains under .COM.RU, .NET.RU and .ORG.RU are also available for registration.

    To give you a perspective of the size of the ccTLD, since its inception in 1994 , .RU has amassed about 3.6 Million+ Domain Registrations so far.

    Total number of domain names in .RU (2003-2011)

    Pic Courtesy: .RU Co-ordination Center

    Registrars: If you need any help in marketing this ccTLD, please contact your respective Account Managers.

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    LogicBoxes Partners with Yovole

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    We are happy to annnounce our partnership with Yovole Communications to help them achieve ICANN Accreditation and to increase their domain extension portfolio. This partnership allows Yovole to leverage on ICANN Accreditation branding and provides access to 45+ Domain Name extensions from LogicBoxes.

    As an advantage of being ICANN Accredited, Yovole will now be able to further establish its brand as a serious player in the domain name industry. This will certainly ensure in better volumes of business for the company in the days to come.

    Yovole’s choice of partnering with us is based on LogicBoxes’ extensive experience in assisting and managing ICANN Registrars. The partnership also gives Yovole access to OrderBox – LogicBoxes’ Registrar Automation Solution, that will allow Yovole to provide its customers with ancillary web products like Web and Email Hosting, Do-it-Yourself Website Builders and Digital Certificates.

    Commenting on the partnership, Qiuzhiwu, Product Director at Yovole said, “LogicBoxes helped us understand the Accreditation process – something that would have been very time-consuming for us to learn first-hand. We’ve saved a lot of resources by partnering with them.”

    “A lot of web hosts and large domain resellers are now realizing the advantages of ICANN Accreditation”, said Sandeep Ramchandani, Director at LogicBoxes. “We’re glad to partner with Yovole and trust that we will help them further boost their business in all aspects.”

    About Yovole:

    Yovole, founded in 2001, provides internet value-added services to SMEs in China, with their main business being IDC (collocation); IBS (internet basic service, e.g. domains, web hosting, cloud computing, etc.) and SaaS (Hosted Exchange , SharePoint, etc). It has 170+ employees that are based out of Shanghai (HQ) and Beijing, Chengdu & Guangzhou. The company has over 100K customers. It is also a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner with competencies in hosting and server platforms.
    For more information, please visit http://www.yovole.com

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    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