With the .INFO picking up steam in registrations and also the volume of aftermarket sales skyrocketing, the future of the .INFO looks promising. So promising that the .INFO has the potential to bump the .net out of its position as second most popular TLD.
OTOH, as more small businesses wake up to not only the necessity of having a website but also the practicality of having an easy to remember and type URL that .net resurfaces as the #2 domain, simply due to its duration and therefore familiarity as "the other address".
.Info was tarnished a bit by the free giveaways, when .info domains were used for spamming, etc. Caveat reg-is-trar: You can do harm in attempting to do good sometimes.
Interesting times ahead, especially for those who bet the bank on .info.
So promising that the .INFO has the potential to bump the .net out of its position as second most popular TLD.
55,370,068 .Com
8,063,295 .Net
4,918,237 .Org
3,368,135 .Info
1,457,479 .Biz
1,008,650 .Us
Oh, now should I mention .de, .jp or .uk? .eu has already passed the 2 million mark.
"Potential"? Yeah, everything has potential...
[edited by: Webwork at 4:48 pm (utc) on Aug. 17, 2006]
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It's a shame really since everyone worldwide understands .info and most do .biz.
The reality of international business is that I do check the domain extensions in my 500+ e-mails per day and, this is purely psychological and not a proven test, I do take more notice of potential buyers and suppliers when they originate from a country with its correct domain extension!
Maybe I've been at this too long however I feel that when an Italian writing to me from Italy with a .it offering me Italian products has more credibility than when writing with a .com.
This applies to all the countries I deal with on a regular basis and I insist on my China office using our .cn, India our .in, Brazil our .com.br, etc, I regularly use my .co.uk in preference to my .com and the one I use the most is my .biz.
[edited by: OptiRex at 2:21 pm (utc) on Aug. 18, 2006]
[edited by: Asia_Expat at 3:07 pm (utc) on Aug. 19, 2006]
The other factor in .info is that there has been an effort to sell the domain at or below cost for the last few years. The aim of that was to grow the gTLD and it did. However the .info and .biz gTLDs still have that backwater reputation as gTLDs for people who didn't get the .com or .cctld domain. And in countries where there is a strong ccTLD, the .info is way down on the list. These are the stats for domains identified on Irish hosters as of 01/August/2006:
1449 BIZ
1841 INFO
3379 EU
4483 ORG
7294 NET
50110 IE
58853 COM
Regards...jmcc
50110 IE
58853 COM
That's interesting.
Bearing in mind that the Irish tend to use names not common elsewhere, do you think, or maybe even know, that if the .com's are registered to many of the .ie companies or possibly to the companies that could not obtain the .ie's?
Bearing in mind that the Irish tend to use names not common elsewhere, do you think, or maybe even know, that if the .com's are registered to many of the .ie companies or possibly to the companies that could not obtain the .ie's?Most of the .coms are Irish registered.
The inverse is more common with the .ie domains though. Irish businesses and companies who could not get the .com opt for the .ie domains (or at least it was that way for the last few years). There is a far greater diversity in the Irish registered .com/net/org/biz/info because of the historically cretinously bad management of .ie ccTLD by the IEDR. The result of the mismanagement of .ie ccTLD was that most of the business entering the Irish market between 2000 and 2006 (the new webdevelopers and college students) tended to automatically opt for a gTLD rather than a .ie domain. The price cuts and relaxation of the rules has boosted the uptake of .ie but cnoib continues to outstrip it in growth.
Just on the breakdowns for domains beginning with the letter A:
domain is .ie unique: 653
domain exists in ie and in {com,net,org,biz,info} : 3554
.ie A domains: 4207
That's just over the A domains. I've got a db here with the domain names over com/net/org/biz/info. I'll run a percentages breakdown later tonight and post the full results on my blog and a summary here.
Regards...jmcc
3379 .eu looks good compared to .info. Do you know how many are registered through euinternet.com compared with other registrars?Well euinternet.com is the EU registrar company of IEinternet. And while IEinternet has been around along time, it has been overtaken by many of the second generation hoster service providers in Ireland. Based on the number of .eu domains detected on the euinternet.com nameservers (1128) it is currently leading the list of .eu domains detected on Irish nameservers. However that does not reflect the numbers of .eu domains that may have been registered through euinternet.com but are not hosted on euinternet.com nameservers. It was doing a lot of .eu promotions to businesses during the sunrise phases but it has done well with .eu domains but I don't know if it can keep that growth up. The current number of .eu domains detected on Irish hosters is 4515. The .eu counts (based on detected domains) do show some anomalies when compared with the EURid figures:
DE 437961
US 141299 (The hosting business is still largely UScentric.)
NL 115808
UK 94331 (Most warehoused doms are stealthed.)
FR 81657
IT 76435
CY 55762 (Including Ovidio/Gabino/Fausto doms)
AU 43189 (Almost completely fabulous! ;) )
CZ 39536
RO 37053 (Massive increase due to front company transferring doms)
Regards...jmcc
However the .ie domains that exist in .eu are not necessarily Irish owned. I haven't cross checked the .ie ccTLD with the lists of .uk, .de, .nl and other ccTLDs that I have been building here. I got asked the other day in a shop where I had been buying a lot of blank DVDs what I was doing with the DVDs. I explained I was backing up the internet. :) (well at least the domains and nameserver mappings.)
The existence of .ie domains in .eu may be low due to EURid and PwC's validation process that only gets through 1000 domains a day. That means that most of the Irish business/company names might not even get activated before next Christmas.
Regards...jmcc
I got asked the other day in a shop where I had been buying a lot of blank DVDs what I was doing with the DVDs. I explained I was backing up the internet. :)
Although more expensive it's much easier with a few flash drives:-)
