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The Lowdown
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Dec. 4, 2008 Post
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Fresh
insight into the current state of the domain registration
business has been released in both the U.S.
(by Verisign who operates the .com and .net
registries) and Great Britain (by Nominet
who operates the .uk registry). Verisign
released its third quarter Domain
Industry
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Brief
today. The report said there were 174 million
domain names registered worldwide (the total
across all extensions) at the end of the third
quarter (Sept. 30). That is an increase of 3% over
the previous quarter and 19% over the total
registered at the end of the same quarter last
year. Country code
domains continued to grow faster than the rate the
overall registration market is expanding. At the
end of 3Q 2008 just under
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69 million
ccTLD registration were in force, a jump of 5%
over the previous quarter and 26% over the
same quarter last year. For the first time, Germany's
.de was displaced as the most popular country
code extension, being passed by China's .cn. Meanwhile
Australia's .au joined the top ten ccTLD list
for the first time, displacing Swizterland's .ch.
Though the total
number of registrations continues to expand,
growth rates in both global and ccTLDs are slowing
down from previous quarters. Verisign said that
the declining payments for traffic that domain
owners are seeing from Google is part of
the reason for the slowing rate of new
registrations and a rising rate of non-renewals.
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Last week
Nominet weighed in with their
report from the UK
perspective. They said that for the past
five years new global domain registrations
had been growing at an annual rate of 30%
but in 2008 the growth rate has been
halved to 15%. Nominet said that
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continued to outperform
and now hold about 40% of the total
market while .com's share has
fallen to 45% from the 50%
share it held in 2005. Among the country
codes, Nominet said China (.cn), Spain
(.es), Poland (.pl) and
Russia (.ru) experienced the highest
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Elsewhere, the DOMAINfest
Global conference has released more
details on the agenda for their conference in Hollywood,
California January 27-30. January 27 will be
an optional "boot camp" designed to give
new domainers a grounding in the basics of this
business. The main event begins Wednesday, January
28, a day that will feature a keynote address from
Apple co-founder Steve
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Wozniak and
the first of several sessions aimed at providing
the latest information on how to build out domain
names. That night attendees will be treated to a
dinner party at Universal Studios and will
have free reign at the popular park throughout the
evening.
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Jeff
Kupietzky
Oversee.net President |
Thursday's
schedule will include more informational
sessions, structured networking activity, Moniker's
live auction and a farewell dinner and party at a world-renowned
entertainment venue to be announced
soon. There will also be a send-off
breakfast Friday morning to conclude the
event that is staged by Oversee.net
(parent company of DomainSponsor, SnapNames
and Moniker).
Oversee.net
President Jeff Kupietzky said
"The DOMAINfest agenda is
specifically designed to provide attendees
with the tools they need to navigate the
changes impacting our domain industry.
What makes this show unique show is that
it blends valuable content with unbeatable
entertainment and a ton of networking
opportunities. This is the industry's
largest gathering of domainers and those
who serve the domain industry. As a
result, it's a must attend
event." (Posted
Dec.
4, 2008) |
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