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

[Erika Mann]

I will look into this Alan. If my memory is correct then these estimates came from ICANN - but I can be wrong.

Erika 

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> On Mar 8, 2018, at 10:49 AM, Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca> wrote:
> 
> 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:
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>> 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:
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>> 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/files/final-report-06jun14-en.pdf 
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>> 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."
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>> https://www.haven2.com/index.php/archives/are-projections-of-registration-growth-in-generic-top-level-domains-realistic 
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