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Growth
numbers from the preceding quarter (4Q-2011)
followed a similar pattern. For all TLDs, the
number of registrations over the past 90 days
increased by 7.5 million, a 3.3%
quarter over quarter rise. The quarter over
quarter growth rate for ccTLDs was 4.8%
but some of the country code gains came from a 808,967
IDN ccTLDs (primarily Russian) that Verisign
began tracking for the first time. Even so, the
overall growth numbers leave no doubt that the
demand for domain names continues to a grow at a
much faster clip than most other products and
services.
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While we
are on the subject of healthy TLD growth
- a big Happy
25th Birthday to Canada's
.CA ccTLD that is administered by the
Canadian
Internet Registration Authority |
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(CIRA). In 1987,
responsibility for the .CA domain was
assigned to John Demco at the University
of British Columbia (UBC) by Jon
Postel, operator of the Internet
Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA).
The first eight .CA domain names were
registered on January 12, 1988,
with the very first one claimed by the University
of Prince Edward Island.
Twenty-five
years later, there are nearly two
million .CA domain names making .CA
the world’s 14th-largest country code
domain registry. Even more impressive is
the fact that .CA has had
the fourth-highest growth rate
among all domain registries over
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One other
note today - DomainsBot,
who is well-known for creating a
business boosting domain name
suggestion tool that has been
incorporated by many top registrars, has
just
launched a new self-service
API and a copy
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and
paste widget that will allow any
developer and small to medium hosting or
domain re-seller to go
live with their domain suggestion
feature in a matter of just minutes. |
DomainsBot claims
that more than 1.5 Million of their
suggested names have been registered during the
last 12 months. An executive from one their
major registrar partners, Adam Eisner of OpenSRS
said, “We have been using DomainsBot's domain
suggestion since 2006 and we have always
been very pleased with the quality of the
service. About 10% of our domain
registrations come from DomainsBot suggestions
and we are happy to offer their value added
service with no charge as part of our
API.”
Domainsbot CEO Emiliano
Pasqualetti added, “Being the providers of
domain suggestion services to 8 of the top 10
registrars and their resellers, we understand
the importance of bringing the same benefits
to small and medium hosting companies and domain
resellers. With our new developers API, anyone
can now increase domain registration in minutes
with little implementation and affordable
subscriptions.” The DomainsBot name
suggestion widget and API are available now at https://developers.domainsbot.com/.
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