.Tel and .Asia By The Numbers
A look at end of year numbers for .tel and .asia.
With .tel recently going through its first annual renewal period, and Telnic’s official numbers for end-of-year 2009, I thought I’d compile some stats on the new top level domain.
Total number of .Tel domains registered as of 12/31/09: 263,304
Top 10 registrars of .Tel domains:
1. Name.com LLC 25,344
2. Mesh Digital Limited (DomainMonster) 24,984
3. Key-Systems GmbH 19,581
4. OVH Sarl 13,699
5. EuroDNS SA 13,606
6. Tucows, Inc. 12,211
7. Network Solutions Inc. 10,139
8. Cronon AG 9,206
9. Dotster 7,970
10. Gandi SAS 7,957
Net adds in second half of 2009: 49,239 (or about 8,200 a month)
Number of operational accredited registrars: 117
Number of registrars going through process to offer .Tel: 246
While we’re at it, let’s examine the numbers for .asia as it enters its third year.
Total number of .Asia domains registered as of 12/31/09: 219,949
Top 10 registrars of .Asia domains:
1. Go Daddy.com, Inc. 30,891
2. EuroDNS S.A. 28,781
3. Key-Systems GmbH 13,808
4. MarkMonitor 6,835
5. Mesh Digital Limited 6,716
6. Cronon AG Berlin Niederlassung Regensburg 6,625
7. Communigal Communications Ltd. 6,402
8. Melbourne IT, Ltd 6,313
9. Directi Internet Solutions Pvt. Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com 6,136
10. Instra Corporation Pty Ltd. 5,339
(Note MarkMonitor, which is a corporate brand management firm. It looks like it registered close to 7,000 domains — perhaps defensively — for its clients.)
Net adds in second half of 2009: 3,482 (or about 600 a month)
Number of operational accredited registrars: 122
Number of registrars going through process to offer .Asia: 123
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