Some relevant stats on .ORG
Just to put the usage of .ORG in some kind of perspective, these are the October 2019 web usage survey results for COM/NET/ORG/BIZ/INFO and the .ORG by country of registrar percentages. The web usage surveys where statistical surveys for the Domnomics book. The .COM survey was on 1,500,000 domain names and the others were on 150,000 each. gtld - Content - Templated Content - Redirects - No Content com: 14.82% - 27.62% - 27.20% - 30.37% net: 14.29% - 23.22% - 25.30% - 37.30% org: 14.58% - 24.50% - 30.51% - 30.41% biz: 11.63% - 21.18% - 24.24% - 42.95% info: 9.53% - 29.31% - 26.21% - 34.96% Templated content is PPC landers, for-sale pages and affiliate landers. No Content is holding pages, forbidden/not found pages, unavailable pages, no response websites and domain names without websites. They are simplified categories from the 28 that are used in the surveys. The HTTPS redirects and Internal Redirects (included in the redirects category above) were: gTLD - HTTPS - Internal com: 10.06% - 5.29% net: 6.67% - 4.20% org: 8.89% - 5.54% biz: 4.69% - 3.40% info: 4.84% - 4.39% In terms of HTTPS redirects, the .ORG is closest to .COM. HTTPS is a good indicator of how a gTLD is developing. There has been a shift to HTTPS over the last five years. The top three countries in .ORG by country of registrar are: USA 66.25% - Germany 8.42% - Canada 6.29% China is the #2 country in .COM and .NET. The Chinese market has been targeted by registries that wish the grow their zone files with discounting offers. This creates a boom and bust cycle in the discounting gTLD as many of these discounted registrations don't renew at full fee and are deleted. Many of the .ORG registrants in developing markets outsource their registrations to countries with more mature Internet hosting. Registrars like Godaddy and Tucows have large numbers of hosters/resellers that use their services. This is also a factor in countries where the ccTLD is the dominant TLD. Most webhosting companies don't bother with becoming an ICANN accredited registrar as the costs and effort don't justify it. Instead, they become ccTLD registrars once their number of hosted domain names justifies it. The gTLDs are actually either plateaued or in decline in some country level markets as the new registrations momentum is in the ccTLDs rather than the gTLDs. Regards...jmcc -- ********************************************************** John McCormac * e-mail: jmcc@hosterstats.com MC2 * web: http://www.hosterstats.com/ 22 Viewmount * Domain Registrations Statistics Waterford * Domnomics - the business of domain names Ireland * https://amzn.to/2OPtEIO IE * Skype: hosterstats.com **********************************************************
John, Thanks for the stats. I expect that as you mention that the registration momentum will continue with ccTLDs rather than with gTLDs. Many of the national ccTLD domain authorities are effective managers. They treat registries as service providers rather than as owners of the name spaces. They don't grant perpetual contracts on the rationale that registry service providers won't be willing to invest in operating a registry unless they are given a perpetual right to do so. Instead, like PIR itself, they put out registry operations for regular rebid. This way the cost to operate a registry falls, and those savings can be passed down to end-users. They create stable pricing environments where companies and nonprofits can develop an online brand knowing that they won't face inflated, unpredictable charges when it comes time to renew their domain names in the future. In short, they look out for the public interest. “We expect that the price of a .au domain will be a little bit less than what has been charged in the past,” LaPlante said. “It will be up to the board, but we recommended to take it down a bit.” https://domainnamewire.com/2017/12/18/auda-drops-neustar-transition-3-millio... "Under the new contract AFNIC <http://www.afnic.fr/en/about-afnic/news/general-news/6101/show/afnic-continu...> will actually have to *LOWER* the wholesale price of a .FR domain name, over the next two years, although the wholesale price for a .FR domain is already 20% lower than a .com " https://www.thedomains.com/2012/08/07/afnic-awarded-new-contract-to-run-fr-r... "Pricing for registry services has dropped significantly over the past couple years since new top level domain names were introduced." https://domainnamewire.com/2016/09/22/kiwi-turns-new-cira-platform-registry-... "The manager for .nz announced today that they have launched a registry replacement process and are calling for expressions of interest from potential service providers by November 29th." http://www.circleid.com/posts/20191022_new_zealands_dot_nz_manager_seeking_n... "Neustar won the back-end contract from .in manager NIXI last year, out from under Afilias, after reportedly undercutting Afilias’ $1.10 per-domain-per-year bid with a $0.70 bid of its own." http://domainincite.com/23905-despite-afilias-lawsuit-neustar-names-date-for... -Nat Cohen On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 1:11 PM John McCormac <jmcc@hosterstats.com> wrote:
Just to put the usage of .ORG in some kind of perspective, these are the October 2019 web usage survey results for COM/NET/ORG/BIZ/INFO and the .ORG by country of registrar percentages. The web usage surveys where statistical surveys for the Domnomics book. The .COM survey was on 1,500,000 domain names and the others were on 150,000 each.
gtld - Content - Templated Content - Redirects - No Content com: 14.82% - 27.62% - 27.20% - 30.37% net: 14.29% - 23.22% - 25.30% - 37.30% org: 14.58% - 24.50% - 30.51% - 30.41% biz: 11.63% - 21.18% - 24.24% - 42.95% info: 9.53% - 29.31% - 26.21% - 34.96%
Templated content is PPC landers, for-sale pages and affiliate landers. No Content is holding pages, forbidden/not found pages, unavailable pages, no response websites and domain names without websites. They are simplified categories from the 28 that are used in the surveys.
The HTTPS redirects and Internal Redirects (included in the redirects category above) were: gTLD - HTTPS - Internal com: 10.06% - 5.29% net: 6.67% - 4.20% org: 8.89% - 5.54% biz: 4.69% - 3.40% info: 4.84% - 4.39%
In terms of HTTPS redirects, the .ORG is closest to .COM. HTTPS is a good indicator of how a gTLD is developing. There has been a shift to HTTPS over the last five years.
The top three countries in .ORG by country of registrar are: USA 66.25% - Germany 8.42% - Canada 6.29%
China is the #2 country in .COM and .NET. The Chinese market has been targeted by registries that wish the grow their zone files with discounting offers. This creates a boom and bust cycle in the discounting gTLD as many of these discounted registrations don't renew at full fee and are deleted.
Many of the .ORG registrants in developing markets outsource their registrations to countries with more mature Internet hosting. Registrars like Godaddy and Tucows have large numbers of hosters/resellers that use their services. This is also a factor in countries where the ccTLD is the dominant TLD. Most webhosting companies don't bother with becoming an ICANN accredited registrar as the costs and effort don't justify it. Instead, they become ccTLD registrars once their number of hosted domain names justifies it. The gTLDs are actually either plateaued or in decline in some country level markets as the new registrations momentum is in the ccTLDs rather than the gTLDs.
Regards...jmcc -- ********************************************************** John McCormac * e-mail: jmcc@hosterstats.com MC2 * web: http://www.hosterstats.com/ 22 Viewmount * Domain Registrations Statistics Waterford * Domnomics - the business of domain names Ireland * https://amzn.to/2OPtEIO IE * Skype: hosterstats.com ********************************************************** _______________________________________________ CPWG mailing list CPWG@icann.org https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/cpwg
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On 05/12/2019 19:29, Nat Cohen wrote:
John,
Thanks for the stats. I expect that as you mention that the registration momentum will continue with ccTLDs rather than with gTLDs.
The gTLD to ccTLD shift is a subtle one, Nat, Basically what happens is that people in the ccTLD's country begin to think of the ccTLD as "their" TLD. That's a very powerful dynamic and there is an element of that with .ORG. What also happens with ccTLDs is that the number of one-off domain names rises. These are domain names that only exist in that ccTLD and not in the gTLDs.
Many of the national ccTLD domain authorities are effective managers. They treat registries as service providers rather than as owners of the name spaces. They don't grant perpetual contracts on the rationale that registry service providers won't be willing to invest in operating a registry unless they are given a perpetual right to do so. Instead, like PIR itself, they put out registry operations for regular rebid. This way the cost to operate a registry falls, and those savings can be passed down to end-users.
Some of them are excellent operations and completely in tune with their registrants. They also build up a massive amount of institutional knowledge. The other aspect of ccTLDs, the non-repurposed ones, is that they are controlled by legislation and by the local government rather than ICANN. There were some cases where ccTLDs have been redelegated but the healthy ones tend to have a lot of these aspects in common.
They create stable pricing environments where companies and nonprofits can develop an online brand knowing that they won't face inflated, unpredictable charges when it comes time to renew their domain names in the future. In short, they look out for the public interest.
Agreed. Price sensitivity is not a major factor with some ccTLDs in that there are ccTLDs where the registrants will pay a higher than .COM registration fee without question. This is because people in the country expect that a new website will have a domain name in the ccTLD rather than another TLD. What I've seen with some countries and the non-COM legacy gTLDs is that where registrars or the registry increases prices, brand protection registrations and other registrations drop because the gTLD is no longer considered relevant to the businesses or the registrant. At a country level, it is hitting .BIZ and .INFO hard. The impact of price increases can take about a year from the increase to play out on the TLDs. What will happen if .ORG starts to encounter problems is that the .ORG will be dropped from the registrar websites and the number of active registrars with new registrations in the zone will decrease. Regards...jmcc -- ********************************************************** John McCormac * e-mail: jmcc@hosterstats.com MC2 * web: http://www.hosterstats.com/ 22 Viewmount * Domain Registrations Statistics Waterford * Domnomics - the business of domain names Ireland * https://amzn.to/2OPtEIO IE * Skype: hosterstats.com **********************************************************
In the name of pursuing its "stability and security" mission, ICANN has destabilized the .org name space. The prospect has now been raised of a "refugee crisis" in which displaced nonprofits uproot themselves in search of a safe haven, with Evan proposing one version. If the nonprofits have to leave their .org domain names behind, that then creates a security crisis in which bad actors could take over and mispurpose the abandoned .org domain names. On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 4:37 PM John McCormac <jmcc@hosterstats.com> wrote:
On 05/12/2019 19:29, Nat Cohen wrote:
John,
Thanks for the stats. I expect that as you mention that the registration momentum will continue with ccTLDs rather than with gTLDs.
The gTLD to ccTLD shift is a subtle one, Nat, Basically what happens is that people in the ccTLD's country begin to think of the ccTLD as "their" TLD. That's a very powerful dynamic and there is an element of that with .ORG. What also happens with ccTLDs is that the number of one-off domain names rises. These are domain names that only exist in that ccTLD and not in the gTLDs.
Many of the national ccTLD domain authorities are effective managers. They treat registries as service providers rather than as owners of the name spaces. They don't grant perpetual contracts on the rationale that registry service providers won't be willing to invest in operating a registry unless they are given a perpetual right to do so. Instead, like PIR itself, they put out registry operations for regular rebid. This way the cost to operate a registry falls, and those savings can be passed down to end-users.
Some of them are excellent operations and completely in tune with their registrants. They also build up a massive amount of institutional knowledge. The other aspect of ccTLDs, the non-repurposed ones, is that they are controlled by legislation and by the local government rather than ICANN. There were some cases where ccTLDs have been redelegated but the healthy ones tend to have a lot of these aspects in common.
They create stable pricing environments where companies and nonprofits can develop an online brand knowing that they won't face inflated, unpredictable charges when it comes time to renew their domain names in the future. In short, they look out for the public interest.
Agreed. Price sensitivity is not a major factor with some ccTLDs in that there are ccTLDs where the registrants will pay a higher than .COM registration fee without question. This is because people in the country expect that a new website will have a domain name in the ccTLD rather than another TLD.
What I've seen with some countries and the non-COM legacy gTLDs is that where registrars or the registry increases prices, brand protection registrations and other registrations drop because the gTLD is no longer considered relevant to the businesses or the registrant. At a country level, it is hitting .BIZ and .INFO hard. The impact of price increases can take about a year from the increase to play out on the TLDs. What will happen if .ORG starts to encounter problems is that the .ORG will be dropped from the registrar websites and the number of active registrars with new registrations in the zone will decrease.
Regards...jmcc -- ********************************************************** John McCormac * e-mail: jmcc@hosterstats.com MC2 * web: http://www.hosterstats.com/ 22 Viewmount * Domain Registrations Statistics Waterford * Domnomics - the business of domain names Ireland * https://amzn.to/2OPtEIO IE * Skype: hosterstats.com **********************************************************
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