Netfleet Newsletter

DavidL · #1 07-04-10, 03:51 PM

Been quite a while since our last regular newsletter. Please check out the latest here:

http://www.netfleet.com.au/index.php?a=news&id=63

Of particular note is the growth in the .AU namespace that appears very strong. Please post any comments!

DavidL · #2 08-04-10, 01:27 PM

Since my post AusRegistry have just published March 2010 stats:

http://www.ausregistry.com.au/report...LIC-201003.pdf

681 registrant transfers is a clear record!

Jonathan · #3 08-04-10, 02:21 PM

Interesting.. 681 registrant transfers in March.. how many of those were through Netfleet? 60 or 70?

This indicates that there are a huge number of sales in the Australian market being conducted privately.

Jonathan · #4 08-04-10, 02:27 PM

Another interesting stat from that report is that despite registrations being up by nearly 40%, 'drop offs' (i.e. expired domains) are down proportionally by nearly 40%. Could indicate that the general public is becoming more conscious about the potential value of their domains.

spacey · #5 08-04-10, 04:04 PM

sooner or later the public catch on and then they find they need a abn to reg a name ?

DavidL · #6 09-04-10, 09:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jonathan

Interesting.. 681 registrant transfers in March.. how many of those were through Netfleet? 60 or 70?

This indicates that there are a huge number of sales in the Australian market being conducted privately.

That's always to be expected. I don't think any marketplace could expect to get all that much of the entire market. I wonder what proportion Sedo claim in .com where they are very dominant. They have certainly increased their volume in the last few years:

2007 - 13,000
2008 - 18,000
2009 - 38,000 (huge jump although av sale price less than 40% of average sale price in 2007)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jonathan

Another interesting stat from that report is that despite registrations being up by nearly 40%, 'drop offs' (i.e. expired domains) are down proportionally by nearly 40%. Could indicate that the general public is becoming more conscious about the potential value of their domains.

I think drop offs are actually up - 21,000 compared with 15,000 last year unfortunately. I guess the down arrow is just to show a negative impact on growth.

djuqa · #7 09-04-10, 11:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by spacey

sooner or later the public catch on and then they find they need a abn to reg a name ?

and then they find out it is easy to get one.

Jonathan · #8 09-04-10, 11:37 AM

David, I might be reading it wrong but I thought they put in a down arrow for drops because they were proportionally lower. In other words, even though they're up in absolute terms, they're down relative to the total number of .com.au's held.

DavidL · #9 09-04-10, 11:53 AM

I don't think so Jonathan.

In fact, looks like the proportion of drop-offs has increased relative to total domains.

Mar 2010 21,000 drop-offs from 1,680,000 total domains = approx 1.25%
Mar 2009 15,000 drop-offs from 1,350,000 total domains = approx 1.12%

Not that that matters all that much as long as the raw increase in registrations stays as strong as it is....

djuqa · #10 09-04-10, 12:25 PM

1 factor maybe that 2 years ago was just before the change in policy regarding resale of .au names. There might have been a lot of names regged with the promise of resale, that never did occur.

Anyhow 1% is not bad , compared to drop rate of some other tlds

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