Aftermarket services in .PL - overview2nd International conference for ccTLD registriers and registrars of Central and Eastern Europe.

Andrzej Bartosiewicz, (c) 2009

The most important numbers…

• June 2008: 1 mln domain names • August 2009: 1.5 mln domain names

.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

1,115,777981,230

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

Contact

NASK’s web page: dns.pl

my web page:bartosiewicz.pl

direct contact with me:bartosiewicz.tel