In your opinion, do you think it is due to registryfly going under? or can the significant increase in deletes be explained by some other factor.
Registerfly's failure was unlikely to cause any deletes at all, since the domains are all being transferred to Godaddy. That was widely reported on ICANN's web site, my blog, and many other places. The registrar stats at the end of the report say that in COM and NET there were 74,492,003 domains added and 55,794,877 deleted, for an average deletion rate of about 75%. If you look at the per registrar data, you will see that the deletes are distributed very unevenly. For example, Godaddy registered 13,685,225 domains and deleted 189,300, a deletion rate of 1.3%. Tucows registered 5,020,525 and deleted 75,208, a rate of 1.5% NSI registered 5,769,373 and deleted 46,945, a rate of 0.8%. Other familiar registrars have similar rates On the other hand, Domainsinthebag.com LLC, Domainsofcourse.com LLC, Domainsoftheday.net LLC, Domainsoftheworld.net LLC, Domainsofvalue.com LLC, Domainsouffle.com LLC, Domainsoverboard.com LLC, Domainsovereigns.com LLC, and DomainSprouts.com LLC each registered 1300 to 1400 domains and deleted over 7000, a deletion rate of 500%. (Presumably the other 400% of the domains were registered the previous month.) Capitoldomains LLC registered 1.1 million and deleted 9.5 million. Domaindoorman LLC registered 1.1 million and deleted 9.3 million. Nameking.com, Inc., registered 3 million and deleted 13.5 million. It's pretty obvious what's going on, I hope. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://johnlevine.com, Mayor "I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.