Afilias Announces Over 200,000 Live .INFO Web Sites; .INFO Gains Momentum in Becoming Internet's Leading Source for Information.Business/Technology Editors HORSHAM, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 24, 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 Wednesday that as of the end of May 2002, there were more than 200,000 live, dedicated Web sites in the new .INFO domain. This research indicates a strong growth potential for .INFO in key regions such as Europe, and poises .INFO to become one of the leading top-level domains (networking) top-level domain - The last and most significant component of an Internet fully qualified domain name, the part after the last ".". For example, host wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk is in top-level domain "uk" (for United Kingdom). (TLDs) worldwide. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. DomainSCAN(SM) research conducted for Afilias by Pegasus Consultants, an independent research and development firm specializing in domain names, more than 200,000 (24%) of registered .INFO domains were live, unique Web sites. In addition, 9% of registrations redirected to another Web site (such as .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. or .NET), and 12% were "parked" (returned a placeholder place·hold·er n. 1. One who holds an office or place, especially: a. One who acts as a deputy or proxy. b. One who holds an appointed office in a government. 2. Web page that was displayed by the registrar See domain name registrar. ). In total, close to 65% of .INFO registrations were "active" in some way.
Status of .INFO Domain Names
(as of May 31, 2002)
Domain Status % of Total
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Dedicated .INFO Sites 24%
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Redirected Sites 9%
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Parked Sites 12%
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Other Active Sites 20%
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Inactive Sites 35%
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Total 100%
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"Afilias' fast, reliable and secure registry technology combined with its effective marketing have earned the confidence of registrants and built a solid foundation for realizing the long-term renewable business for this promising new Internet See Web 2.0 and Internet2. domain," said Roland LaPlante, Chief Marketing Officer for Afilias. "The true measure of success for a new 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. is in expanding the name space in a meaningful way. These new, live .INFO sites are a clear indication of meaning, and with less than one year of business, .INFO has already demonstrated its sustainable value Sustainable Value Sustainable Value is an approach to measure and manage sustainability performance. The concept was developed by researchers who are working today for Queen's University Belfast in the worldwide Internet market." As of May 31, 2002, the leading markets for .INFO domain sales were Europe (52%) and 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. (40%). Interestingly, close to 32% of all European .INFO registrations are now live, dedicated sites. Of the worldwide total of live .INFO sites, Europe accounts for 69%. This compares to North America, where 14% of all registrations are live sites, accounting for 23% of the total of live sites worldwide.
Worldwide Regional Breakdown of .INFO Registrations
(July 2001 - May 2002)
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Region % of Total % of Registrations
Registrations that are live sites
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Europe 52% 32%
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North America 40% 14%
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Asia Pacific 7% 20%
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Africa .8% 36%
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Latin America .2% 17%
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Total 100% 24%
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".INFO has demonstrated clear long-term potential to be a viable alternative to .COM in the worldwide Internet market and has made a useful addition to our international product portfolio," said David Hirschler, General Manager of Register.com's Retail Division. "The large number of live sites indicates that .INFO is building a strong base of business for the registry that will sustain the domain and stimulate budding budding, type of grafting in which a plant bud is inserted under the bark of the stock (usually not more than a year old). It is best done when the bark will peel easily and the buds are mature, as in spring, late summer, or early autumn. registration markets worldwide." Recent .INFO registrations are even more likely to be sites-- in May alone 30% of those names registered went live virtually immediately. ".INFO is still at an embryonic em·bry·on·ic or em·bry·on·al adj. Of, relating to, or being an embryo. Embryonic In the life cycle of the round worm, a very early life stage occurring within the uterus of the female round worm. stage, but continues to build momentum as it matures," said Tom D'Alleva, Vice President of Marketing at BulkRegister. ".INFO's momentum is visible in the growing number of registrations and high percentage of live sites, and serves as a sound foundation for the complete service packages that we are able to offer our .INFO customers. As you look month to month, it continues to improve in value over time as more and more registrants are coming to .INFO first to establish new sites." These research results for .INFO bode bode 1 v. bod·ed, bod·ing, bodes v.tr. 1. To be an omen of: heavy seas that boded trouble for small craft. 2. well for the growth of new domain markets worldwide. In the US alone there are more than 44,000 active .INFO sites in place today. However, Germany is #2 in registrations (or 22% of worldwide registrations) and #1 in live sites with 82,445 (44% of the total German registrations, and 41% of the worldwide total of live sites). "It's good to see domain names being devoted to active usage," said Mason Cole, Vice President of Corporate Marketing for SnapNames and Publisher of State of the Domain (www.sotd.info). "Continued progress for the .INFO domain will help re-establish overall growth in the domain name industry." Cole also indicated this type of usage analysis will be valuable in assessing registration quality, an important new metric. "Industry participants are going to need this data to assess marketplace shifts and adapt to a changing global economy," he said. 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 (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 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 The DomainSCAN(SM) research herein reflects data current as of May 31, 2002. Since this research monitors a dynamic environment, the state of some of the sites included in these statistics as "live, dedicated" may have changed since they were initially evaluated. This research conforms to normal statistical margins of error. |
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