Afnic : The New Top Level Domain Names Are Shaking The Main Established Registrars
Afnic, the company behind .FR extension, released the September 2014 edition of the Afnic Industry Report on Domain Names. The report showed that some of the main registrars are not part of the nTLD “Top 10”.
You can read the announcement after the jump:
“The September 2014 edition of the Afnic Industry Report on Domain Names, shows that some of the main registrars are not part of the nTLD « Top 10 »
The Afnic Industry Report on Domain Names provides the key figures and trends related to the global domain name market.
The September 2014 issue focuses on the representativeness of some of the main registrars in the newgTLD “Top 10” and the efficiency of some of the other registrars of lesser size on these new markets.
Four of the first registrars in the world are not part of the nTLD « Top 10 ». More agile challengers are taking advantage of this situation. Overview.
Initiated in January 2014, the commercial launch of the New Top-Level Domains (nTLD) has been greeted with mitigated warmth by market players. This study focuses on the top 10 registrars worldwide to assess how they are positioned with respect to the new TLDs. By contrast, it seemed interesting to note some of the factors that have allowed four “challengers” to move up into the “TOP 10” on new TLDs.
Our data are based on ICANN reports as at 30/04/14 and Ntldstats.com statistics as at 31/08/14.
The indicator on which our assessment is based is calculated by taking the ratio between the market share of a registrar on the new TLDs and its market share in generic TLDs (.com, .net .org, etc.,) created before 2013.
In this way:
a registrar whose market share in the “traditional” gTLDs is 5%, while its market share in nTLDs is 10%, has a ratio equal to 2;
Conversely, a registrar whose market share in the “traditional” gTLDs is 10%, while its market share in nTLDs is 5%, has a ratio equal to 0.5.
A ratio greater than 1 means that the registrar’s market share is higher in nTLDs than in traditional gTLDs. The ratio therefore reflects the level of the registrar’s commitment to the new TLDs, either by the means employed (sales drives, promotional campaigns, etc.) or by the success with its resellers and customers in the TLDs it has chosen to market. Here we measure both the level of commitment and of success, which for simplicity’s sake we shall refer to as “positioning”.
The study identifies four categories:
Ratio less than 0.5: weak positioning
Ratio between 0.5 and 1: moderate positioning, with no emphasis on nTLDs
Ratio between 1 and 2: strong positioning, with an emphasis on nTLDs”
You can see the entire report here.
Sedo Reports $1 Million in Domain Name Sales ! Baltic.Cruises Topped Sedo’s weekly Sales List at $25,000
Baltic.Cruises topped Sedo’s weekly sales chart at $25,000. Highlights also include Kiel.com, leading the .COM category at 19,500 EUR and BS.tv, leading the ccTLD category at $15,000.
Other notable domain name sales include:
.COM
venzo.com 2014-09-08 15000 USD
1151.com 2014-09-14 13100 EUR
funbee.com 2014-09-12 12000 USD
reformador.com 2014-09-11 11000 USD
fxglobal.com 2014-09-09 10000 GBP
familybox.com 2014-09-09 10000 USD
fkbt.com 2014-09-08 7650 USD
truesearch.com 2014-09-08 6450 USD
goisland.com 2014-09-11 6000 USD
esome.com 2014-09-08 5000 EUR
my-ticket.com 2014-09-12 5000 USD
personalprotectiondogs.com 2014-09-09 5000 USD
yjcp.com 2014-09-09 5000 USD
epaypro.com 2014-09-08 5000 EUR
freshcard.com 2014-09-14 5000 USD
franciacorta.com 2014-09-08 4988 USD
badmachine.com 2014-09-08 4500 USD
paradises.com 2014-09-11 4500 USD
piaule.com 2014-09-08 4000 EUR
relier.com 2014-09-08 4000 USD
eatalynet.com 2014-09-10 3900 EUR
cryomax.com 2014-09-13 3900 EUR
critizen.com 2014-09-11 3500 USD
nost.com 2014-09-12 3100 EUR
eliotmanagementgroup.com 2014-09-08 3000 USD
247dns.com 2014-09-10 3000 USD
ccTLD
wettbuero.de 2014-09-11 12000 EUR
hr.tv 2014-09-09 9999 GBP
inc.tv 2014-09-11 9500 USD
lorenzen.de 2014-09-08 5950 EUR
mydentist.co.uk 2014-09-12 4400 EUR
thumbtack.co.uk 2014-09-11 4000 GBP
goedkopelening.be 2014-09-11 3500 EUR
mbox.eu 2014-09-09 2999 EUR
eat.us 2014-09-12 2700 USD
vendi.de 2014-09-09 2500 EUR
gevo.cz 2014-09-12 2500 USD
zulu.co 2014-09-10 2500 USD
hagel.be 2014-09-11 2500 EUR
solargis.cn 2014-09-08 1999 USD
mobiletraffic.de 2014-09-12 1950 EUR
sowetomarathon.co.za 2014-09-11 1900 EUR
dildopartys.de 2014-09-08 1550 EUR
commission.tv 2014-09-12 1500 USD
skater.nl 2014-09-08 1499 EUR
spoonfed.co.uk 2014-09-08 1495 GBP
omikron.gr 2014-09-11 1350 EUR
borchert.de 2014-09-09 1300 EUR
goal.rs 2014-09-11 1300 EUR
yorks.de 2014-09-12 1300 EUR
Other
huo.net 2014-09-08 4000 USD
boot.club 2014-09-12 3750 USD
celect.net 2014-09-11 1900 USD
autism.club 2014-09-09 1500 USD
camena.net 2014-09-12 1350 USD
tabletennis.org 2014-09-08 1100 USD
chipin.org 2014-09-08 890 USD
active.marketing 2014-09-11 875 USD
assistinternational.org 2014-09-11 825 USD
etickets.org 2014-09-09 800 USD
estore.biz 2014-09-08 800 USD
pads.net 2014-09-08 800 EUR
hotelvietnam.org 2014-09-08 800 USD
capetown.today 2014-09-08 799 USD
poultry.bid 2014-09-08 750 USD
cwco.net 2014-09-09 750 USD
orchardpark.net 2014-09-08 750 USD
Check out Sedo.com for more information .
ICANN: ICG Announces Fourth Conference Call
The IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group ( ICG ) will hold its fourth conference call on Wednesday, 17 September 2014 from 21:30-22:30 UTC. For time zone conversions, please see here.
The community is welcome to attend by way of a listen-only mode Virtual Meeting Room through which audio of the call will be streamed. Translations will be available through relevant Adigo Bridge dial-in numbers and Conference ID codes.
A list of country dial-in numbers can be found here. In the case that there is no appropriate dial-in number for an interested participant, ICANN will provide a dial-out service to that individual. Correspondingly, language service Conference ID numbers are listed below:
- Français – Conference ID: 75929475
- Español – Conference ID: 68385764
- 中文 – Conference ID: 825702
- Pусский – Conference ID: 345720
- العربية – Conference ID: 82855066
- Português – Conference ID: 759752
Participants who are interested in an English line but are unable to join by way of the Virtual Meeting Room may request a dial-out service.
For all dial-out service requests please contact
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by 15:00 UTC, 17 September.
For more information about the ICG and the IANA Stewardship Transition, please visit the NTIA IANA Functions’ Stewardship Transition Microsite.
This ICANN announcement was sourced from:
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-09-16-en
ICANN Board Adopts FY15 Operating Plan and Budget
The ICANN Board adopted the FY15 Operating Plan and Budget on 09 September 2014. To view the document please visit the Financials page.
This ICANN announcement was sourced from:
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2014-09-16-en
NiRA Closing In On Another Milestone : 60,000 .NG Domain Names
The Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA),the company behind .NG extension, is approaching 60,000 domain name registrations under .NG.
.NG became available to public registration in 2012.NiRA’s president, Mary Uduma, said that between January and August 2014, 12,513 domain names were registered.Moreover, between January and August 2014, there was also a slight increase of almost 1000 renewals,bringing this year’s total renewals to 8,246.
“Although the number appears impressive, Nigeria is still scratching the surface in terms of registered individuals and organisations and called for more registration of the country’s domain name,” said Mary Uduma, NiRA’s president.
“With the 11, 075 domain names registered this year alone, NIRA would be getting close to 60,000 registered .ng domain names, since it began the campaign to populate domain name registration in the country in 2012,” Uduma added.
Check out EuroDNS here to register your .NG domain name.
