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Global Evolution Of The Domain Name Market

Global Evolution Of The Domain Name Market. Joe Waldron Director, Product Management Date: April 23, 2008. Historical Perspective. Top Level Domains 1984: Creation of Initial Top Level Domains (e.g., .com, .org, and country codes) [RFC 920] The Domain System

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Global Evolution Of The Domain Name Market

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  1. Global Evolution Of The Domain Name Market Joe Waldron Director, Product Management Date: April 23, 2008

  2. Historical Perspective • Top Level Domains • 1984: Creation of Initial Top Level Domains (e.g., .com, .org, and country codes) [RFC 920] • The Domain System • 1985: Host name to address mappings maintained by the Network Information Center (NIC) in a single file (HOSTS.TXT) [RFC-952, RFC-953]. • Explosive growth in the number of hosts • The network population was also changing in character • The applications on the Internet were getting more sophisticated and creating a need for general purpose name service. • Led to creation of RFC’s 1034 and 1035 (1987). • Privatization • Creation of ICANN • Creation of Registry Registrar Model • Introduction on new TLDs

  3. The Name Space and Domain Names Top Level Domains • 20 Generic TLDs (gTLD) 8 Unsponsored 12 Sponsored • 250 Country Code TLDs (ccTLD) • 11 Test IDN TLDs Domain Name Examples 2LD: verisign.com google.com3LD: desktop.google.com john.smith.name google.com.ar

  4. Industry Research • Domain Name Industry Brief Series • Quarterly update of the state of the domain name industry • Market Research Available at www.verisign.com/domainbrief

  5. 1,299 1,120 975 850 723 620 295 277 260 490 246 233 217 390 200 181 167 Changing Landscape Internet Users(M) Broadband Subscribers (M) Sources:Morgan Stanley Research Informa, Euromonitor,, comSource global 8/07, Datamonitor, Internet World Stats, Computer Industry Almanac, UVA, MRG, SIMS, eMarketer and VeriSign

  6. Global Growth Worldwide Growth of Registered Domain Names Millions of Domain Names

  7. Threats “Noisy” Attacks Spam Phishing Viruses Worms Adware Rootkits Hactivism Targeted Attacks DDoS Bots and Botnets “Stealth” Attacks

  8. Thank You

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