.INFO Reaches 1 Million Registrations; GoDaddy Registers .INFO's 1 Millionth Name.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers DUBLIN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 19, 2002 Afilias, a global provider of domain name registry A domain name registry, also called Network Information Centre (NIC), is part of the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet which converts domain names to IP addresses. services, announced Tuesday that its flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. .INFO, has surpassed 1,000,000 registrations in just over one year of operation. The one millionth name, los-angeles-real-estate-search.info, was registered through GoDaddy Software, Inc, one of .INFO's leading registrars. This milestone cements .INFO's leadership of the new TLDs and solidly places it as the sixth-largest domain in the world. "This milestone is of great importance both to Afilias and the global Internet community," said Hal Lubsen, Afilias Chief Executive Officer. "The significant market response to .INFO clearly demonstrates the importance of having a global home for information on the Internet and underscores the value in the expanding 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. market. Over 265,000 of these registrations are already live, dedicated Web sites, and .INFO addresses are even being used in ads, further illustrating .INFO's movement into the mainstream." .INFO launched in September 2001, and was the first of seven new TLDs chosen by ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, www.icann.org) A non-profit, international association founded in 1998 and incorporated in the U.S. It is the successor to IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority), which manages Internet addresses, domain names and the huge number in November 2000 to relieve congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load. congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. in the top level domain space historically dominated by .COM (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. . It achieved over half a million registrations in the first 90 days of operation and since then has continued to build on its business. The biggest sector of growth for .INFO has been in Europe which now accounts for 52% of .INFO's global registrations. Of all the new TLDs, .INFO also boasts the highest percentage of active sites - close to 70% - as well as the largest number of live, dedicated Web sites that encompass 27% of its registrations and approaches .COM's 35%. "From the outset .INFO has maintained a solid and steady rate of growth," said Mason Cole, Publisher of State of the Domain (www.sotd.info). ".INFO and the rest of the new TLDs have been a positive influence on the domain name industry overall and have added a dynamic new vehicle to fuel competition between registrars." From the beginning, .INFO's registrations have been a dramatic counterpoint to the trends in .COM, .NET and .ORG, which have found their home in North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. markets. The majority of .INFO registrations are from Europe at close to 52% with the next closest market being 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. , which accounts for 39%. Asia Pacific accounts for about 7% and Africa and Latin America account for 1% each. In addition, .INFO has bucked the trend of leading registrars - with Germany's Schlund + Partner outpacing VeriSign for the number one registrar slot. GoDaddy remains fifth (and growing) for .INFO business, and it is also fifth globally for combined .COM,.NET, .ORG, .BIZ, .INFO, and .NAME (according to www.registrarstats.com). "We are pleased to have registered .INFO's 1 millionth name and think that this milestone bodes well for its ultimate success," said Tim Ruiz of GoDaddy Software, Inc. ".INFO has been an asset to our business from the very beginning and has helped us accelerate through the ranks of the top ten registrars." About Afilias Afilias, a fully integrated global provider of domain name registry services, maintains international headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, a sales office in London, sales and operational facilities in Toronto, and administrative offices in the U.S. near Philadelphia, PA. Afilias provides a full range of registry services leveraging proven technology that is fast, reliable and secure. Afilias was formed in September of 2000 and was the first new gTLD operator selected by ICANN in November of 2000 to launch a new registry system using a thick registry model based on the new EPP (1) (Enhanced Parallel Port) See IEEE 1284. (2) (Ethernet Packet Processor) A chip from Kalpana, Inc., Santa Clara, CA that doubles speed of Ethernet transmission to 20Mbits/sec. In 1994, Kalpana was acquired by Cisco. (extensible provisioning protocol The Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) is a flexible protocol designed for allocating objects within registries over the Internet. The motivation for the creation of EPP was to create a robust and flexible protocol that could provide communication between domain ) standard. For more information please visit www.afilias.info |
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