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473,633 domain registration applications were received during the 3 week Landrush bringing the total .asia names applied for since launch to 505,838
45,696 domains received more than 1 application and will go to Auction
The most sought aftername was buy.asia (400 applicants)
1,051 domain names received more than one application during Sunrise for IP right holders. “sex.asia” received the most Sunrise applications, with 14 prior-right claims filed.
Chart.info has some nice charts showing the relative size of differernt name spaces and a map showing worldwide distribution of .info domains together with a small directory of the best domain related sites and some interesting but older charts.
ICANN has opened a coment period for a request for changes by Afilias & Neustar for their respective registry agreements.
“The proposed service would limit the number of AGP deletions where a registrar could receive a full registration fee credit each month: either 50 per month or 10% of that registrar’s net new monthly domain name registrations, whichever is greater. A registrar would be permitted to delete as many names as it wished during the five-day AGP, receiving credit throughout the month. However, at the end of the .BIZ or .INFO normal monthly billing cycle the Registrar’s account would be debited for the full value of the domain name registrations that exceeded the month’s set threshold.
DNCalendar.com is a handy reference site providing diary info for upcoming events in the Domain Name Industry.
February 2008:
A 7 day domain auction themed “Around the World in Seven days” is being held by Sedo commencing on the 13th February 2008
Domains include:
AfternicDLSblog is reporting after a request for names in December and January more than 400,000 names were submitted for consideration to NameMedia from Afternic.com members. NameMedia bought 24,000 (6%) of the submitted names.
Sedo which runs one of the major marketplaces for people to buy and sell domain names has just produced a report showing a valuable insight into where and how many domain sales there were in 2007 together with a comparision of domain sales for 2006.
Findings from the report:
“The .com extension remains the most frequently sold global TLD over Sedo with over 76% of all sales being .com domain names. Next to follow is the .net TLD with a 9% share and .info with 7%.
In 2007 domains amounting to a total of $72,230,731 were sold and transferred via the Sedo marketplace. This is a 60% increase of the same figure from 2006.
Afilias has just announced today that users can now register .INFO domain names that include the Spanish characters á, é, í, ñ, ó, ú, and ü.
From the Afilias .INFO press release
“The introduction of these new domain names, termed Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs), now enables Spanish-speakers to establish Web sites using words commonly used in Spanish such as película.info, teléfono-móvil.info, Ídolo.info, Piñata.info, and others
To check availability at the Afilias Registy www.whois.info
The possible auctioning of single character domains like a.com, i.info, 4.mobi looks a step closer with ICANN seeking expressions of interest from Auction Design Experts.
“ICANN is seeking expressions of interest from entities experienced in developing and managing auction processes. ICANN has identified several areas where auctions might be an appropriate tool, such as the efficient disposition of data from terminated registrars and registries, the allocation of single-character second-level domain names, and perhaps, resolution of contention between competing commercial applicants for identical strings in the application process for new generic Top Level Domains. …. more here
“Internet advertising will also come close to overtaking television advertising in 2008, emphasising how fast the new medium has become a mainstream means of promotion. This year internet spending is predicted to hit £3.4 billion, up from £2.6 billion in 2007, on GroupM’s estimates.
More details in the London Times.
The UK is not the only country in 2008 where Internet advertising is expected to exceed television advertising for the first time, Sweeden and Denmark will probably pass this landmark slightly before the UK, earlier in 2008.
GPM Group 