Afilias – intro/updateAfilias – intro/update

Presented by: Desiree Miloshevic,Advisor, International Affairs and Policy Development

February 26, 2004, APTLD meeting, APRICOT Kuala Lumpur

Introduction to AfiliasIntroduction to Afilias• Founded by consortium of 18 Registrars World-

Wide• Next generation registry services provider• Complete services: registration thru resolution

– Fast / Stable /Secure• Multinational

– HQ in Ireland; sales offices in Germany, UK, US; technical operations in Canada

• Over 4 million domain names in management– INFO registry– ORG back office provider– ccTLDs back office

..INFO Top Level DomainINFO Top Level Domain• .INFO – first new completely

unrestricted TLD after .COM– Recognizing/leveraging a new space

• Attracted wide variety of registrants- – Countries, charities, businesses, individual

users, leisure industry – Example: great country fit – spain.info

• Helped expand online communities: – Bloggers, directory services – Example: alac.info

Global .INFO Growth is SteadyGlobal .INFO Growth is Steady• Fast build pressured system to keep up

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2001-08-27

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2002-01-21

2002-02-25

2002-04-01

2002-05-06

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2002-07-15

2002-08-19

2002-09-23

2002-10-28

2002-12-02

2003-01-06

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2003-04-21

2003-05-26

2003-06-30

2003-08-04

1,200,000 Registrations

New DevelopmentsNew Developments• Faster Standard for DNS

– Registration to resolution in <2 minutes globally

• E-num technology test- Convergence of telephone and DNS industry

• Internationalized Domain names:Afilias will enable local character sets in .INFO, e.g. www.österiche.info

• Initial launch for German script umlaut characters ä, ö, ü

Afilias and APTLDAfilias and APTLD

• APTLD market has a significant potential and we are committed to its development

• Afilias would like to work with the community for the exchange of information and its registry expertise and explore opportunities

Thank You !Thank You ! C U @ ccTLD lunch in Rome, sponsored

by Afilias, Tuesday, March 2nd

Contact: Desiree Miloshevic

T: +44 20 7602-9695 E: dmiloshevic(@)afilias.info