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Roland
LaPlante, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing
Officer for Afilias, said “.INFO is the undisputed most
successful new TLD launched to date, accounting for over
40% of all new TLD registrations." LaPlante also
said the registry plans to use the expertise it has gained
to provide backend services for some of the new TLDs that ICANN
plans to start launching next year.
".INFO’s
experience provides many lessons applicable to the launch
of new domains to come," LaPlante said. "As an
organization, Afilias has been able to use our experiences
with .INFO as a benchmark for successfully gaining
approval for, launching and growing more new TLDs than any
other registry services provider.”
Afilias
says that over 70% of .INFO domains resolve to real
content and that more than 1 million unique Web
sites are based on the extension. North America is
the top region for .INFO use holding 61% of all
.INFO registrations.
Europe
is next with 23% followed by the Asian
markets with 11%, however, Afilias said the Asian region
is one of the fastest growing.
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Roland
LaPlante
Afilias Sr. Vice President
and Chief Marketing Officer
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Afilias
reports that .INFO also continues to gain penetration in
the registrar marketplace which offers domain names for
retail sale. .INFO is now available with over 330
distributors that support over 90% of sales volume
in the worldwide domain name industry.
In
addition to statistics on the health of .INFO, the report
also addresses news and initiatives that .INFO has
undertaken over the last year. This includes .INFO’s
efforts to reach new audiences via Facebook and Twitter,
the recent .INFO
Awards and the release of an interactive .INFO
domain directory at www.info.info/directory
. The report also highlights Afilias’ continued
efforts to keep the .INFO domain space and Internet users
secure through its Domain Anti-Abuse Policy and
supporting initiatives.
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