Aftermarket services in .PL - overview2nd International conference for ccTLD registriers and registrars of Central and Eastern Europe.
Andrzej Bartosiewicz, (c) 2009
.PL registry in brief
• full EPP support;• DNS dynamic updates with 5 min intervals;• Partnership Program with 120+ registrars
already;• fully automated domain name registration; • no local presence required, no restrictions;• automatic transfers and updates;• pre-paid for Registrars;• registration timeframe: 1..10 years.
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.PL pre-paid model
• goes live in September 2009;• 2200 EUR for entry and 500 EUR minimal
payment;• changes to the existing agreement: no more
security deposits required, no more “discounts” based price list, easy to sign agreements;
• automatic renewals (Registrar can decide to switch it off);
• extentions to the EPP: special parameter for renewal after expiration, <extreport:payment> and <extreport:paymentFunds>;
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.PL prices
basic:• registration price = 2.40 EUR • renewal price = 9 EUR (some people say it’s too
high…)• renewal of IDN (discount price) = 2.40 EUR
additional charges:• renewal after expiration + 1 EUR• unsuccessful registration attempt = 0.02 EUR• no more additional charges.
http://dns.pl/english/registrar/feesp2009.html
.PL prices
allowed payment methods:• wire transfer• PayPal• credit cards• direct debit (in the next version of the System)• the next version of the system will also cover real
time account provisioning from PayPal or credit cards.
http://dns.pl/english/registrar/feesp2009.html
.PL registry in brief
• domain name booking (for free, for two weeks); • DNS Dynamic Updates every 5 minutes;• tasting (for two weeks for 0.25 EUR);• options (Wait List Service; 7.30 EUR for 3 years);• IDN full support including Cyrillic, Greek,
Hebrew and more;• lower renewal price for IDNs.
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Registrars vote
• starting September 1st, 2009 all technical changes to the System are subject to the Registrars voting.
• each Registrar gets as many votes as the square root of the number of registered domain names #votes = √(#registered domain names)
• proposal pass the voting if there is more votes in favour than against.
• voting system is only allowed for the technical changes.
total number of the active domain names @ NASK
2006 2007 2008 Q1 2008 Q2 2008 Q3 2008 Q4
557,091
762,656
941,3151,059,224
1,208,1861,323,454
registrations, 2009 (est.)
2006 2007 2008 2009 (est.)0
200000
400000
600000
800000
1000000
1200000
1400000
1600000
1800000
2000000est. 1 700 000 domains in DNS
#of domains, ccTLDs of the European Union, Q1 2009
de uk nl it fr pl es dk be se1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
12,607,720
7,382,123
3,300,8221,651,883
1,353,8261,333,615
1,115,777
981,230
880,889
854,905
2006 2007 2008 Q1 2008 Q2 2008 Q3 2008 Q4
78.69%
77.05%
75.01%74.03%
72.62% 72.87%
Renewal rates and domain names growth
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
0% 10% 20% 30%
9.42%
7.81%
9.59%
6.01%
23.43%
12.53%
14.06%
9.54%
0.0358818666912488
2009
2008
2007
Domain names growth (net), Q2Q
New registrations (only)
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000
945
772
1029
896
2537
1838
1876
1996
2404
2009 2008
2007
Aftermarket (parking) in brief
• parking market size is 6.39% of the total number of .pl domain names;
• only two big players: Sedo and NameDrive;• parked.com just
starting…
Sedo NameDrive0.00%
10.00%
20.00%
30.00%
40.00%
50.00%
60.00%
70.00% May 2009
Additional services offered by NASK
• WLS (Wait List Service), – implemented in 2004
• DNT (Domain Name Tasting) – implemented in 2007
• list of expired names – implemented in 2008
• list of NXDOMAINS – implemented in 2008
• new features in WHOIS – implemented in 2008
• main purpose: to secure registration if domain name expires;
• valid for 3 years, only 1 WLS for one domain name;
• available only through Partners;• product is targeted to “domainers” to secure
registration if domain name expires;• service provided by the Registry – 100%
guarantee to register domain name if domain name expires;
• 30 PLN = 10 USD = 7.30 EUR.
Wait List Service - overview
Wait List Service - statistics
2007 2008 Q1 2009 2009 (etc.)0
5000
10000
15000
20000
25000
30000
35000
40000
45000
est. 26 500 new WLS this year
Domain Name Tasting - overview
• main purpose: traffic testing;• targeted (generally) to “domainers”;• start: September 3rd, 2007;• 14 days for “tasting”;• 1 PLN = 0.35 U$ = 0.25 EUR; • 105 469 DNT registrations until February 2009.
DNT - statistics
2007 2008 Q1 2009 2009 (est.)0
10000
20000
30000
40000
50000
60000
70000
80000
90000
100000 est. 90 000 DNT
renewals statistics……have no more sense today…
• most of the expired domain names are registered within seconds after expiration;
• 85% of expired domain names under .PL are taken (registered, booked, tasted) within first 24 hours;
• publication of the lists of expired names directly increased the efficiency of “drop catching”.
expired names – public list
• NASK makes make the list of the expired domain names public;
• three times a day;• exact expiry date/time is in WHOIS;• list of expired domains is available free of
charge:
dns.pl/english/registrar/deleted_domains.shtml
NXdomain.pl
• targeted to the “domainers”;• NASK started publication of the daily top one-
hundred NXDOMAINs list in July 2008;• NX domain list is free of charge;• domain names with the NXDOMAIN status
(rcode=3) and the total number of responses;• all the names that might be attractive for
domainers, are imediately “tasted”;
Additional data in WHOIS • registration date and time (hh:mm:ss);• expiration date and time;• WLS, DNT – date and time;• domain name status visible (registered, reserved,
tasted, tasted-blocked, expired, blocked, book-blocked);
• and more:http://www.dns.pl/english/stanydomeny.htmlhttp://www.dns.pl/english/states_of_domain.pdf
NASK efforts to promote domain names registrations
• public meetings with Partners;• conferences dedicated to the Aftermarket:
SecondaryMarket.pl and SecondaryMarket2009.pl
• TV interviews, press releases;• on-line BLOG: webhosting.pl/bartosiewicz• reports (quarter and annual) and more…
www.dns.pl; example:http://dns.pl/Raport2008.pdfhttp://dns.pl/news/Raport_kwartalny_Q1_2009.pdf