As you all know - I have an interest in following the growth of dot.com. I used to get the dot.com data from third particies since my main interest is in the numbers and not the area of speculation. So I now pick up the files myself and have been developing a tracking system for dot.com. At this time I'm experimenting with the dot.com file for Sep 18 and Sep 19, 2000 and have some interesting comparisons for domain sales and cancelations for Sep 19 2000, which i've listed below. The top ten registrars for that day have been listed first in order of sales volumn. I don't have enough data yet to make any predictions. But I speculate, based on this data dump and other I've done over the month, that network solutions is in some degree of difficulty. Most of the time their accounts recievable and due (being cancellations) exceeds daily sales. This is not a good thing and if netsol does not improve it's position and this sort of thing continues their financial viability is in question. I can also speculate that their are a few registrars out there who are on the way to bankruptcy. Sales Cancel Registrar ======= ======= ============================ 20876 31421 NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC. 4926 54 REGISTER.COM, INC. 3875 0 DOTSTER, INC. 2723 15 TUCOWS.COM, INC. 2048 30 BULKREGISTER.COM, INC. 1208 5 ENOM, INC. 1180 5 CORE INTERNET COUNCIL OF REGISTRARS 984 13 MELBOURNE IT, LTD. D/B/A INTERNET NAMES WORLDWIDE 366 13 INTERNET DOMAIN REGISTRARS 300 0 SCHLUND+PARTNER AG 15 0 1STDOMAIN.NET, DIVISION OF G+D INTERNATIONAL LLC 46 0 ABACUS AMERICA, INC. DBA NAMES4EVER 36 1 ALL WEST COMMUNICATIONS, INC. D/B/A AW REGISTRY 60 0 ALLDOMAINS.COM INC. 3 0 BB ONLINE UK LTD 1 0 CAPITAL NETWORKS PTY LTD 17 0 CATALOG.COM, INC. 211 1 DOMAIN BANK, INC. 25 0 DOMAIN REGISTRATION SERVICES 28 0 DOMAININFO AB 155 0 DOMAINPEOPLE, INC. 17 0 DOMAINREGISTRY.COM 6 0 E-NAMES.ORG 3 0 EASTERN COMMUNICATIONS CO., LTD. 228 1 EASYSPACE LTD 17 0 EPAG ENTER-PRICE MULTIMEDIA AG 14 0 FRANCE TELECOM/TRANSPAC 48 0 G.K. GROUP, L.L.C. 279 0 GANDI 83 0 HANGANG SYSTEMS, INC. D/B/A DOREGI.COM 51 0 IBI CO., LTD. 186 0 IHOLDINGS.COM, INC. D/B/A DOTREGISTRAR.COM 92 0 INNERWISE, INC. D/B/A ITSYOURDOMAIN.COM 1 0 INTERACCESS CO. 69 0 INTERQ, INC. 1 0 NAMEBAY 67 0 NAMESDIRECT.COM, LTD 156 0 NAMESECURE.COM 16 0 NORDNET 58 0 ONLINENIC, INC. D/B/A CHINA-CHANNEL.COM 5 0 PARAVA NETWORKS, INC. 2 0 PSI-JAPAN, INC. 4 0 SECURA GMBH 11 0 SIGNATURE DOMAINS, INC. 35 0 SPEEDNAMES, INC. 9 0 STARGATE COMMUNICATIONS, INC. 28 0 THE NAME IT CORPORATION 7 0 THE REGISTRY AT INFO AVENUE 141 5 TIERRANET, INC. 15 6 XIN NET CORP. 24 0 YESNIC ======= ======= ============================ 52630 31644 TOTALS dot.GOD Hostmaster http://www.dot-god.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]