[At-Large] [NA-Discuss] Gross Deletes

[John L]

> In your opinion, do you think it is due to  registryfly going under?
> or can the significant increase in deletes be explained by some other
> factor.

Registerfly's failure was unlikely to cause any deletes at all, since the 
domains are all being transferred to Godaddy.  That was widely reported on 
ICANN's web site, my blog, and many other places.

The registrar stats at the end of the report say that in COM and NET
there were 74,492,003 domains added and 55,794,877 deleted, for an
average deletion rate of about 75%.

If you look at the per registrar data, you will see that the deletes
are distributed very unevenly.  For example, Godaddy registered
13,685,225 domains and deleted 189,300, a deletion rate of 1.3%.
Tucows registered 5,020,525 and deleted 75,208, a rate of 1.5% NSI
registered 5,769,373 and deleted 46,945, a rate of 0.8%.  Other
familiar registrars have similar rates

On the other hand, Domainsinthebag.com LLC, Domainsofcourse.com LLC,
Domainsoftheday.net LLC, Domainsoftheworld.net LLC, Domainsofvalue.com
LLC, Domainsouffle.com LLC, Domainsoverboard.com LLC,
Domainsovereigns.com LLC, and DomainSprouts.com LLC each registered
1300 to 1400 domains and deleted over 7000, a deletion rate of 500%.
(Presumably the other 400% of the domains were registered the previous
month.) Capitoldomains LLC registered 1.1 million and deleted 9.5
million.  Domaindoorman LLC registered 1.1 million and deleted 9.3
million.  Nameking.com, Inc., registered 3 million and deleted 13.5
million.

It's pretty obvious what's going on, I hope.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl at iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://johnlevine.com, Mayor
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