tech4 said:
Is there someway to confirm the actual numbers of Dot Asia?
Because dot .me has about 3,000 names which went to auction because of multiple applications. And it has over 100,000 registrations to date.
Those are the numbers from the .asia zone file.
Dot Asia has 54,000 names which went to auction and you're saying that dot Asia has only 200,000 names to date?
As of 01/October/2008 .asia had 227746 domains in the zone. The next update will be for the 01/November/2008 data.
It doesn't make sense, because dot Asia according to dotasia.org say that since go live it has about 10,000 registrations/day and after that it was 2,000-4,000 per day.
Those are landrush statistics. And every landrush ends as you can see from the graph on
http://www.hosterstats.com/Detailed-asia-Statistics-2008.php
The graph shows the numbers of new, deleted and transferred .asia domains. The number of .asia domains is listed in the table beneath it.
The huge spike in registrations at the start was the beginning of the landrush and then as the landrush phase ended, the numbers of new registrations per month began to drop to a fraction of the landrush figures. The .asia press release you are getting your figures from is this:
http://www.dotasia.org/pressreleases/DotAsia-PR-GoLive-2008-04-14_EN.pdf
That press release is dated 14/April/2008 and deals with the landrush. The figures quoted there show up in the stats. After that landrush, the numbers of new registrations fall off. It happens the same way in all new TLDs. Landrush registration figures do not continue forever.
I think your stats on dot Asia are not right at all.
I don't think that you understand what is happening with .asia or how landrush phases work.
Can you confirm with registrar or the icann people?
The .asia registry provides the zone file.
Could you also confirm the same method will work on all extensions.
If the registries for those extensions provide the zone file (that's the big list of all domains registered in that extension and their associated nameservers) the same method works. The only minor differences will be where a domain has no associated nameserver because it is in the deletion process or the registrars have not associated any nameservers with it for their own reasons.
Like using whichever method it is you have to check on dot me, dot com, dot net etc., because those stats are verified by the registrar.
The stats for .com/net/org/biz/info/mobi/asia are based on analysis of their respective zonefiles. The .me is a ccTLD and most ccTLDs do not release their zone file for analysis.
For example, what does your method say about the dot me registration total?
Nothing. That's simply because it is not currently tracking .me zone files.
Perhaps you were hoping that .asia would supplant .com as the domain of choice but the reality is that it has to compete with the ccTLDs in its region along with .com/net/org/biz/info/mobi. However the reality is that .asia has not even reached the anniversary of its landrush and it is not a .com killer. Most ccTLD extensions take years to develop. The .com has taken decades. The .asia gTLD is a regional extension and its market is that region and businesses that are doing business with that region. This type of regional TLD does not become an overnight success with millions of registrations. The growth in such an extension will be steady rather than dramatic. Comparing it with .eu ccTLD is not good. The .eu ccTLD was run by an incompetent registry and was, and still is, massively speculated. The .eu ccTLD is also not widely used and there is probably only around 400K genuine websites in the extension. From a domaining point of view, .asia sales are not going to be of the magitude of .com sales. As with any landrush, there will be some high value sales initially. But .asia has not really established any limits for domain sales yet.
Regards...jmcc
drjawed said:
Nice work jmcc. Would you please add .me into it?
Thanks drjawed, I'll request the figures from the .me registry.
Regards...jmcc
