some of my replies regarding dot.com ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 10:00:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Baptista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Chuck Hatcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: A day in the life of dot.COM PEOPLE - one important thing I forgot to address in my posting of all that data. For reason reason the sales and cancellation figures do not include dot.com names beginning with K. I made a programming booboo and ended up loosing letter K. On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Chuck Hatcher wrote: > That's very interesting reading - thanks for sharing it with us. I do have > a few questions: > > 1. What do you mean by "2723 (approx. $10,000 in sales)" ? Why wouldn't > 2723 be $27,230 in sales, not accounting for rebates? Or do you mean gross > profit, after paying the registry? net profit, after paying the registry and prior to any rebates - I assumed $4.00 / domain name net profit. > 2. What do you mean by Cancel? Do you mean deleted from the shared > registry, or dropped from the zone files? Big difference, as far as I'm > concerned. If it means dropped from the zone files, does that mean > re-appearance in the zone file will show up in Sales (for instance renewals > paid after the domain is placed on hold)? If so NSI Sales is not really all > "new" sales, but includes some renewals? Hypothetically, if every other day > I remove the name servers on all my OpenSRS domains, then the next day put > them back, will I distort your figures? Please note, I'm not trying to find > flaws in your work, I'm just trying to understand it. I'm aware of that. By canceled I mean it was removed from te zone file but is still in the whois file. I consider that an overdue account receivable - but there's simply not enough information to estimate what are NEW sales and what are PAID outstanding due Account receivable. To do that I have to track it by domain - which is what i'm working on. > > 3. How do you determine how many domains were registered by a particular > registrar? Are you running whois lookups on zone file drops and adds? exactly. names dropped from the zone file or added to the zone file are xcross referenced to the registrar via the registry whois. > Looking at the big picture (from a one-day snapshot), NSI (registrar) is not > only losing market share, but is a net loser of registrations in total. > (Question: How long until the number of domains NSI manages decreases to the > point that they can provide decent customer service to their remaining > customers?) yup - i have to agree and have already addressed this to network solutions. > > I wonder what the story behind the 15 OpenSRS "Cancels" is? Are they all > transfers to other registrars? Or deleted name servers? Or deletions on > request? Or by UDRP decision? Or what else? > > Again, thanks for the report. > > Chuck Hatcher > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joe Baptista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 8:03 AM > Subject: A day in the life of dot.COM > > > > > > 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. According to > > these figures Tucows created some 2723 (approx. $10,000 in sales). The > > top ten registrars for that day have been listed first. > > > > 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] > > > > >
