[98593] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Mon Aug 13 20:57:20 2007
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:19:33 GMT
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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I was just struck by a couple of statistics:
[snip]
In January 2007, according to PIR five registrars deleted 1,773,910 doma=
in
names during the grace period and retained 10,862. That same month,
VeriSign reported that among top ten registrars, 95% of all deleted .COM=
and .Net domain names were the result of domain tasting.
[snip]
http://www.informationweek.com/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=3D=
20150
0223
Having said that, Jay Westerdal mentioned on Sunday that:
[snip]
Today was the largest Domain Tasting day ever. We recorded over 8 Millio=
n
Transactions today. This is a new high. We have never seen 8 Million
transactions on one day before. That would be either an add or delete. O=
ver
99 percent of these transactions are completely free and use the 5 day
grace period to test domain names for traffic before they are purchase f=
or
a long term buy.
[snip]
http://blog.domaintools.com/2007/08/biggest-domain-tasting-day-ever/
Although I'm not sure all of that 8M+ were actual "tasted", it
does represent an astronomical number of registrations.
Just a couple of data points.
- - ferg
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Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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