[CPWG] Some relevant stats on .ORG

Thu Dec 5 19:29:42 UTC 2019

John,

Thanks for the stats.  I expect that as you mention that the registration
momentum will continue with ccTLDs rather than with gTLDs.

Many of the national ccTLD domain authorities are effective managers.  They
treat registries as service providers rather than as owners of the name
spaces.  They don't grant perpetual contracts on the rationale that
registry service providers won't be willing to invest in operating a
registry unless they are given a perpetual right to do so.  Instead, like
PIR itself, they put out registry operations for regular rebid.  This way
the cost to operate a registry falls, and those savings can be passed down
to end-users.

They create stable pricing environments where companies and nonprofits can
develop an online brand knowing that they won't face inflated,
unpredictable charges when it comes time to renew their domain names in the
future.  In short, they look out for the public interest.

“We expect that the price of a .au domain will be a little bit less than
what has been charged in the past,” LaPlante said. “It will be up to the
board, but we recommended to take it down a bit.”
https://domainnamewire.com/2017/12/18/auda-drops-neustar-transition-3-million-au-domain-names-afilias/

"Under the new contract AFNIC
<http://www.afnic.fr/en/about-afnic/news/general-news/6101/show/afnic-continues-as-the-registry-for-the-fr-tld-2.html>
will
actually have to *LOWER* the wholesale price of a .FR domain name, over the
next two years, although the wholesale price for a .FR domain is already
20% lower than a .com "
https://www.thedomains.com/2012/08/07/afnic-awarded-new-contract-to-run-fr-registry-but-only-after-open-bidding-results-in-reduced-prices/

"Pricing for registry services has dropped significantly over the past
couple years since new top level domain names were introduced."
https://domainnamewire.com/2016/09/22/kiwi-turns-new-cira-platform-registry-services/

"The manager for .nz announced today that they have launched a registry
replacement process and are calling for expressions of interest from
potential service providers by November 29th."
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20191022_new_zealands_dot_nz_manager_seeking_new_registry_service_provider/

"Neustar won the back-end contract from .in manager NIXI last year, out
from under Afilias, after reportedly undercutting Afilias’ $1.10
per-domain-per-year bid with a $0.70 bid of its own."
http://domainincite.com/23905-despite-afilias-lawsuit-neustar-names-date-for-indian-takeaway

-Nat Cohen

On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 1:11 PM John McCormac <jmcc at hosterstats.com> wrote:

> Just to put the usage of .ORG in some kind of perspective, these are the
> October 2019 web usage survey results for COM/NET/ORG/BIZ/INFO and the
> .ORG by country of registrar percentages. The web usage surveys where
> statistical surveys for the Domnomics book. The .COM survey was on
> 1,500,000 domain names and the others were on 150,000 each.
>
> gtld - Content - Templated Content - Redirects - No Content
> com: 14.82% - 27.62% - 27.20%  - 30.37%
> net: 14.29% - 23.22% - 25.30% - 37.30%
> org: 14.58% - 24.50% - 30.51% - 30.41%
> biz: 11.63% - 21.18% - 24.24% - 42.95%
> info: 9.53% - 29.31% - 26.21% - 34.96%
>
> Templated content is PPC landers, for-sale pages and affiliate landers.
> No Content is holding pages, forbidden/not found pages, unavailable
> pages, no response websites and domain names without websites. They are
> simplified categories from the 28 that are used in the surveys.
>
> The HTTPS redirects and Internal Redirects (included in the redirects
> category above) were:
> gTLD - HTTPS - Internal
> com: 10.06% - 5.29%
> net: 6.67% - 4.20%
> org: 8.89% - 5.54%
> biz: 4.69% - 3.40%
> info: 4.84% - 4.39%
>
> In terms of HTTPS redirects, the .ORG is closest to .COM. HTTPS is a
> good indicator of how a gTLD is developing. There has been a shift to
> HTTPS over the last five years.
>
> The top three countries in .ORG by country of registrar are:
> USA 66.25% - Germany 8.42% - Canada 6.29%
>
> China is the #2 country in .COM and .NET. The Chinese market has been
> targeted by registries that wish the grow their zone files with
> discounting offers. This creates a boom and bust cycle in the
> discounting gTLD as many of these discounted registrations don't renew
> at full fee and are deleted.
>
> Many of the .ORG registrants in developing markets outsource their
> registrations to countries with more mature Internet hosting. Registrars
> like Godaddy and Tucows have large numbers of hosters/resellers that use
> their services. This is also a factor in countries where the ccTLD is
> the dominant TLD. Most webhosting companies don't bother with becoming
> an ICANN accredited registrar as the costs and effort don't justify it.
> Instead, they become ccTLD registrars once their number of hosted domain
> names justifies it. The gTLDs are actually either plateaued or in
> decline in some country level markets as the new registrations momentum
> is in the ccTLDs rather than the gTLDs.
>
> Regards...jmcc
> --
> **********************************************************
> John McCormac  *  e-mail: jmcc at hosterstats.com
> MC2            *  web: http://www.hosterstats.com/
> 22 Viewmount   *  Domain Registrations Statistics
> Waterford      *  Domnomics - the business of domain names
> Ireland        *  https://amzn.to/2OPtEIO
> IE             *  Skype: hosterstats.com
> **********************************************************
> _______________________________________________
> CPWG mailing list
> CPWG at icann.org
> https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/cpwg
>
> _______________________________________________
> By submitting your personal data, you consent to the processing of your
> personal data for purposes of subscribing to this mailing list accordance
> with the ICANN Privacy Policy (https://www.icann.org/privacy/policy) and
> the website Terms of Service (https://www.icann.org/privacy/tos). You can
> visit the Mailman link above to change your membership status or
> configuration, including unsubscribing, setting digest-style delivery or
> disabling delivery altogether (e.g., for a vacation), and so on.
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/cpwg/attachments/20191205/2e020811/attachment-0001.html>