Regards...jmcc
Well, despite the "loss" we know someone made a few Euros. To paraphrase Mel Brooks: "It's good to be a registry."
Interesting stats. I wonder what percentage of total registrations that represents?
The big mistake is to look at the stats as a whole. They have to be examined on a country by country basis.
The UK loss is very signficant - about 100K at the moment. That's down from over 441K at the peak.
The German count is down from a high of 790K to around 758K but they have been continually buying new domains so the loss is absorbed somewhat.
Just on a rough spreadsheet here, based on figures since the start of April 2007 and the numbers at 01/May/2007, there is a a major loss in some countries and some of the others aren't doing too well either. They haven't been corrected for population density or comparative footprint in their respective ccTLDs.
AT -4.13%
BE -5.01%
CY -0.13% * Mainly warehousers.
CZ -5.95%
DE -4.09%
DK -3.05%
EE -14.02% (a) Also used for fake US registrations.
ES -11.12%
FI -5.03%
FR -5.33%
UK -21.61% (b) Major warehousing problem
GR -9.00%
HU -17.68%
IE -14.85% (c) Certain Front Companies for major US domain holders
IT -20.52%
LI -2.48%
LV -8.77%
NL -1.71% (d) Strange
PL -8.61%
PT -11.82%
SE -5.96%
SI -10.36%
SK -7.15%
a - Hundreds of domains registered on one particular US registrar included Estonia in the country field. EURid was alerted but did not take sufficient action.
b - The UK is home to a pile of warehouser operations. One warehousing operation has eight UK front companies with tens of thousands of identified .eu domains registered via these companies. These companies have also lost a number of ADRs for bad faith registration (cybersquatting) of various trademarks.
Another front companies operation (the 44K + hosted in Romania) are also based in the UK and accounted for about 44K of UK .eu domains. Over 30K of these domains were deleted/quarantined.
Interestingly there is a clear pattern of UK front companies being registered to avail of premium generics and even well known legitimate trademarks in Sunrise 2. Almost all of these UK company applications (and I've checked hundreds of them) in Sunrise 2 failed.
c - Marchex uses an Irish company for its .eu domains (3494 identified as of 20070401 - the 20070501 stats are being done at the moment).
d - Netherlands seems to have a comparatively high holding. But it is a hight domain density country like Germany. Over the next few months that holding might drop.
Well, despite the "loss" we know someone made a few Euros. To paraphrase Mel Brooks: "It's good to be a registry."
Let's hope the revolution gives the people in EURid and the European Commission a good haircut then. :)
Though at the moment .eu is flatlining.
Regards...jmcc
<Moderator's Note: I have removed a number of references to the identities of less widely known domain portfolio aggregators than Marchex, which one specific reference I left intact since they are widely known as the company that made the $160 million USD purchase of the UltimateSearch portfolio. It's interesting to see players of Marchex's size engaged in the landrush in new TLDs. If anyone wishes further details regarding the other major players I'm certain that if you reach out - privately - to jmcc he will be happy to share his data . . . or you can wait for the book. ;0) >
[edited by: Webwork at 11:50 pm (utc) on May 2, 2007]
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Theres a whopping amount dropped now, it was up at nearly 2.6 million reg`s I think before april, it`s now at 2.374 million. Almost going for quarter million mark dropped.
There`s gold in them there hills and I got me a JCB....lol
Theres a whopping amount dropped now, it was up at nearly 2.6 million reg`s I think before april, it`s now at 2.374 million. Almost going for quarter million mark dropped.It is well over that now Smartpc. :)
One warehouser operation has dropped over 34K of its domains. Some of these were the .eu variants of UK and IE business websites. So there may be a minor blip if these .eu domains are reclaimed. Looking at some of the of the other domains dropped by this warehouser, this was a very poorly organised operation that was based on .eu having massive traffic - traffic even exceeding .com TLD.
There`s gold in them there hills and I got me a JCB....lolBased on the lists here, there is also a hell of a lot of sub regfee iron pyrites. :) You'll have to do an awful lot of digging.
Regards...jmcc
