.INFO Domain Crosses 4 Million Registrations..INFO Now Supports over 1 Million Dedicated Web Sites after Passing 5 Year Anniversary DUBLIN, Ireland -- Afilias, a global provider of Internet domain name An organization's unique name on the Internet. The chosen name combined with a top level domain (TLD), such as .com or .org, also called a "domain extension," makes up the Internet domain name. For example, computerlanguage.com is the domain name for the publisher of this Encyclopedia. registry services, announced today that the .INFO generic top-level domain See Internet domain name. has reached over 4 million domain names under management, marking a significant milestone just months after crossing its fifth anniversary of real time registrations available to the public. The four millionth name, leger-europe2007.info, was registered in the United Kingdom by the registrar MelbourneIT. "Afilias has built the most successful brand of the new top-level domains in .INFO and has provided an attractive and popular alternative to .com and other generic TLDs," said Roland LaPlante, Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for Afilias. ".INFO continues to be an Internet address There are two kinds of addresses that are widely used on the Internet. One is a person's e-mail address, and the other is the address of a Web site, which is known as a URL. Following is an explanation of Internet e-mail addresses only. For more on URLs, see URL and Internet domain name. that individuals and businesses choose to showcase their information on the Web. It is gaining popularity worldwide, increasing overall sales volume and even establishing itself as an emerging domain in the aftermarket and pay-per-click (PPC See Pocket PC, PowerPC and pay-per-click. PPC - PowerPC ) markets." To support this milestone, Afilias has issued a 4 Million Milestone analysis report that details updated insight on the .INFO domain. Key highlights include: * North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. is the top market for .INFO domain sales (51 percent) with Europe in second place (38 percent). * The US is the top country for .INFO registrations (48 percent) followed by Germany (11 percent). * .INFO is now available for sale through 183 registrars, or domain name retailers, worldwide, which represent the vast majority of the domain business. * 74 percent of .INFO sites are active, including over 1 million dedicated sites. * The highest aftermarket sale on record for .INFO was NewYork.info which sold for over US$46,000 in September 2006. Both the number and value and the value of .INFO's in the aftermarket are growing. The full text of the .INFO 4 Million Milestone Analysis is available at http://www.afilias.info/news/press_releases/pr_articles/2007-03-20-01 .INFO is now the #6 largest domain on the Internet, and has enabled millions of registrants to get their preferred name preferred name the name amongst two or more which refer to a single disease, condition or clinical sign, which is recommended to be used generally. in a domain that enjoys broad acceptance on a global scale. About .INFO .INFO was the first generic, unrestricted TLD (Top Level Domain) The highest level domain category in the Internet domain naming system. There are two types: the generic top level domains (gTLDs) such as .com, .org, and .net, and the country codes, such as .ca, .uk and .jp. See gTLD and Internet domain name. to be launched since .com. Registrations in .INFO first became available in 2001. Since then, .INFO has grown to become the sixth largest TLD in the world with over 4 million registrations. 74 percent of .INFO registrations are being used on the Web either for a wide variety of purposes including dedicated sites, businesses, blogs, etc. .INFO currently contains over two million active sites and over 1 million dedicated Web sites. .INFO is also available in nine Internationalized Domain Name An internationalized domain name (IDN) is an Internet domain name that (potentially) contains non-ASCII characters. Such domain names could contain letters with diacritics, as required by many European languages, or characters from non-Latin scripts such as Arabic or (IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) A .com or .net domain name that is represented in non-English characters and symbols, with .com and .net appended at the end in English letters. ) scripts including German (DE), Polish (PL), Swedish (SV), Danish (DA), Hungarian (HU), Icelandic (IS), Latvian (LV), Lithuanian (LT), and Korean (KO). About Afilias Afilias, a fully integrated global provider of registry services, maintains international headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, sales offices in London, England, sales and operational facilities in Toronto, administrative offices in the U.S. near Philadelphia, PA, and operational offices in New Delhi, India. Afilias provides a full range of registry services leveraging proven technology that is fast, reliable and secure. Afilias provides registry services support to the .ORG gTLD (under contract to Public Interest Registry Public Interest Registry is a not-for-profit corporation created by the Internet Society in 2002 to manage the .org top-level domain. It took over the operation of the domain from VeriSign on 1 January 2003. Afilias manages the technical operations of the . ), the .INFO gTLD and several country code and sponsored TLDs including .aero, .mobi, and .asia. For more information please visit www.afilias.info |
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