[ga] China Drops In Domain Registrations From #2 To #4

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  What this article doesn't tell you is that the volume
of spam from .de which suplanted .cn in gaining in Domain Name
registrations, has increased dramatically.  

See:
http://tech.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/06/13/1418226

A year ago, it looked like the .cn country code Top
Level Domain (ccTLD) for China was growing so fast that it would displace
.com. In 2010 that's no longer the case, as 
http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/news/article.php/3887356
.cn has dropped from being the number two global domain by registrations 
to number four. And yes, .com is still number one. According to 
VeriSign, the top 10 list of TLDs in the first quarter was: .com, .de, .net, 
.cn, .uk, .org, .info, .nl, .eu and .ru. So 
why did .cn decline? Spammers. 'Many of these are low-priced 
promotional names that have now come up for renewal at a higher 
price,' said Pat Kane, vice president of naming services at
VeriSign. 'The .cn registration decline was also based on the CNNIC
(China Internet Network Information Center) registry's implementation of
the real names directive from the Chinese government primarily around
verifiable "whois" data.

Regards,

Jeffrey A. Williams
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