Not to start a massive "let's speculate on who's who" thread, but note that
Register.com claims 2 million registrations on their main page and has been
advertising like crazy over at least the last few months.
Ross: Are you allowed to tell us where you got this data? If so, where?
-Russ
At 06:32 PM 8/31/00, Ross Wm. Rader wrote:
>Without going into too much detail (cuz they'd probably fire me if I did),
>I can say that things are definitely not as they appear in this space...
>
>The following is a listing of the marketshare for August 1, 2000 with the
>relevant names blanked out....top twenty performers only....
>
>Registrar 1: (39.23%)
>Registrar 2: (13.00%)
>Registrar 3: (10.44%)
>Registrar 4: (9.06%)
>Registrar 5: (4.51%)
>Registrar 6: (4.11%)
>Registrar 7: (4.05%)
>Registrar 8: (2.30%)
>Registrar 9: (1.44%)
>Registrar 10: (1.34%)
>Registrar 11: (1.13%)
>Registrar 12: (1.09%)
>Registrar 13: (0.94%)
>Registrar 14: (0.81%)
>Registrar 15: (0.74%)
>Registrar 16: (0.67%)
>Registrar 17: (0.65%)
>Registrar 18: (0.63%)
>Registrar 19: (0.44%)
>Registrar 20: (0.40%)
>
>The interesting thing is that #3 and below are faced with falling daily
>volumes in most cases and #2 is growing (it was only roughly 7% per day
>thirty days prior).
>
>I refuse to comment on the who's who, but the data is very interesting
>nonetheless...
>
>As far as bankruptcy goes, nothing would surprise me at this point - being
>a registrar is not cheap and I can't see how some of these firms can get
>by with the prices they charge and the volumes they see...being a reseller
>is a much different proposition simply based on the sunk costs....
>
>Anyways...have fun with the numbers...
>
>On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Abhishek Rungta wrote:
>
> > Hey Chuck, Scott,
> >
> > Great work indeed. Congrats.
> > Currently I understand the market share in domain industry is highest for
> > NSI followed by Register ?
> > Do we come third !
> >
> > Anyways does anyone know where can we get such stats. It would be
> > interesting to follow these registrars and their market share :). It looks
> > like Pepsi/Coke stuff now :). Everyone wanna have one ! Anyways is
> their any
> > prediction about bankrupcy in this field ? For example what I have heard is
> > as follows :
> >
> > 80% NSI
> > 10% Register/Bulkregister/OpenSRS
> > 10% Rest 50 or so !
> > (my stats might be wrong)
> >
> > So what will happen to the rest 10% ? I have seen a company as ICANN
> > accredited registrar with the Top 5 of the company not knowing how does a
> > domain name system works :) and niether interested in knowing. They lie in
> > the last 10% for sure. That is what makes me wonder as what general people
> > think about how many company might just run out of cash and enthusiasm
> ? And
> > the biggest of all - What happens to their POOR customers ?
> >
> > Regards
> > Abhishek Rungta
> > Indus Net Technologies
> > http://www.talash.net
> > **********************************
> > Complete website for $525 :)
> > **********************************
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: WebWiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 10:05 PM
> > Subject: 1,000,000 is coming soon!
> >
> >
> > > Just got a reg request for order #9969XX...won't be too long before
> > OpenSRS
> > > rolls over to 1,000,000 orders! (The first one I processed was Order
> > > #26739)
> > >
> > > Out of curiousity, how many have actually been completed and registered?
> > > Surely we're well north of half a million at this point.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Eric Longman
> > > Atl-Connect Internet Services
> > >
> > > +-------------------------------------------------------+
> > > | Atl-Connect Internet Services http://www.atlcon.net |
> > > | 3600 Dallas Hwy Ste 230-288 770 590-0888 |
> > > | Marietta, GA 30064-1685 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
> > > +-------------------------------------------------------+
> > >
> > >
> >
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>
>Thanks,
>
>-rwr
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>Ross Wm. Rader
>Director Product Management,
>Channel Platform Group
>Tucows Inc.
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>f. 416.531.5584
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