snoopy
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Some research out from Verisign today and it does highlight real growth rates for domain names. .Com.au growth rate of around 2% is above average.
.Com.au is doing far better than .uk for example which has been stagnant for 5 years (10.6 million registrations). It has been stagnant since the year of the direct registration proposal (2012). But that may just be coincidence as the big cctlds are going nowhere or seeing much lower growth than in the past regardless of whether they allow direct registrations or not.
The report
https://www.verisign.com/en_US/domain-names/dnib/index.xhtml#home
With ntld growth rates now turning negative it is very clear that the au ccdld does not need changing because of any threat posed by new tlds either
New tld numbers "falling through the floor"
.Com.au is doing far better than .uk for example which has been stagnant for 5 years (10.6 million registrations). It has been stagnant since the year of the direct registration proposal (2012). But that may just be coincidence as the big cctlds are going nowhere or seeing much lower growth than in the past regardless of whether they allow direct registrations or not.
Total country-code TLD (ccTLD) domain name registrations were approximately 143.1 million, a 0.3 percent increase over the fourth quarter of 2016, and a 1.7 percent increase year over year.
The report
https://www.verisign.com/en_US/domain-names/dnib/index.xhtml#home
With ntld growth rates now turning negative it is very clear that the au ccdld does not need changing because of any threat posed by new tlds either
New tld numbers "falling through the floor"