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Jonathan

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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

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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.
 

DavidL

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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)


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.
 

Jonathan

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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

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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

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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
 

Jonathan

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Oh well, I guess it was just wishful thinking on my part. Also, apparently I am terrible at maths.

I do wonder about those 600 private transfers though. Specifically, what proportion of them were sales. Could mean the secondary market is already turning over several million dollars a year.
 
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