[RDS-WHOIS2-RT] Interesting data for our work

[Alan Greenberg]

Clearly what I would refer to as "Dreaming in 
Technicolor". But it is not clear to me from 
these documents whose estimates these were.

Alan

At 08/03/2018 10:07 AM, Erika Mann wrote:

>Interesting observations from Mike O'Connor. 
>Looking back to the beginning of the last round 
>of new TLDs and looking at today's data.
>
>"Here’s the reference that caught my eye:
>
>You can find this on page 150 of the 
>newly-released Whois study — done by the Expert 
>Woorking Group on gTLD Directory 
>Services.  Here’s the link to the study — 
><https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/filles/final-report-06jun14-en.pdf>https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/final-report-06jun14-en.pdf
>
>The thing that struck me was that whopping 22% 
>annual growth rate.  Partly this is due to some 
>pretty optimistic assumptions about the growth 
>in the number of new gTLDs (I’m willing to bet 
>any money that the beginning of 2015 will not 
>see 200,000 gTLD domains in the root).  But 
>leaving that aside, 22% year over year growth 
>isn’t something we’ve seen since pre-bubble glory days."
>
><https://www.haven2.com/index.php/archives/are-projections-of-registration-growth-in-generic-top-level-domains-realistic>https://www.haven2.com/index.php/archives/are-projections-of-registration-growth-in-generic-top-level-domains-realistic
>
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