DNS informations http://www.dns.pl/english http://www.dns.pl/images/dns-rss.gif http://www.dns.pl/english/dns_en.xml 42 19 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:32:16 +0200 pl © Copyright by NASK All rights reserved. partner@dns.pl webmaster@dns.pl Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:32:16 +0200 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss On the 28th of September 2009 NASK successfully introduced new pre-paid functionality. What changed is not only the accounting system but also the way of accreditation of our new Partners - less demanding formal requirements at the same level of security, development of market mechanisms in traffic optimalization and an Agreement on a completely new terms. We estimate that indroduction of the new system will in effect ensure a further, more dynamic expansion of the domain market. http://www.dns.pl/english/dns_en.xml Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:12:24 +0200 20090929101313352 DNS Division of NASK releases the 2nd Quarter Report 2009 of the domain. http://www.dns.pl/NASK_Q2_REPORT.pdf Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:52:16 +0200 20090707156416989 We would like to inform that from today, July 7, 2009 our Registrars are able to begin testing of the new pre-paid functionality. http://www.dns.pl/english/index.html Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:54:08 +0200 20090707155408487 Last week's leaders: HOME.PL for new domains, Michau Ent. for new IDN domains. http://www.dns.pl/english/statistics.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:32:10 +0200 20090612124456237 "Dr. Andrzej Bartosiewicz of Poland's .pl registry, NASK.pl, was a real breath of fresh air. Unlike many other registry officials he openly embraced the professional domain investment community and the registry has established many investor friendly policies." says Ron Jackson. http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2009/june.htm Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:32:10 +0200 20090612124236239 HOME.PL is once again the leader of the domain registration market with the result of 34% market share for the last week. http://www.dns.pl/english/statistics.html Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:41:40 +0200 20090612125433457 Michau Ent. is the leader of the IDNs registration with 25% market share for the last week. http://www.dns.pl/english/statistics.html Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:40:40 +0200 20090612125433455 Renewal rate Y2Y for May 2009 has reached 62,85%, 1,32 percentage point decrease if compared to April 2009. http://www.dns.pl/english/statistics.html Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:53:45 +0200 20090612125433453 In May 2009, share of the parked .pl domain names amounted to 6.23% with a decrease of 15 basis points M2M. The percentage of NameDrive's share in parked domain names increased to 64.80 whereas Sedo's share decreased to 35.04. Parked.com and Bodis.com share reached 0.16%. http://www.dns.pl/english/statistics.html Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:43:09 +0200 20090612104309469 http://www.bartosiewicz.pl/blog.html Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:40:32 +0200 20090609154032602 Partners who manage over 75% of registered domain names have signed the new agreement with NASK introducing the pre-paid system. http://www.dns.pl/english/registrar/partner.html Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:32:58 +0200 20090609153258260 Domains registered in 2005 (only), renewal in 2006: 63.18 %; registered in 2006: 57.55 %; registered in 2007: 54.15 %. For more about renewals, visit http://www.dns.pl/Raport2008.pdf. http://www.dns.pl/english/ Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:32:57 +0200 20090609153258257 Registered in January 2008, renewals in January 2009: 28.92%; registered in February 2008, renewal rate 33.65%; registered in March 2008, renewal rate 36.72%; registered in April 2008, renewal 37.64%. For more about renewals, visit http://www.dns.pl/Raport2008.pdf. http://www.dns.pl/english/ Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:32:56 +0200 20090609153258255 Chief of the NASK Domain Department, Mr. Andrzej Bartosiewicz sums up the year that passed since .pl domain name had its 1 000 000th registration in an interview for Interaktywnie.com. He talks a bit about pre-paid system, explains why NASK does not plan any changes in fees, answers questions asked by clients and gives an insight about connections between .TEL and ENUM domains. The whole interview is available at http://interaktywnie.com/artykuly/105-domeny-internetowe-przestana-sie-liczyc.html http://interaktywnie.com/artykuly/105-domeny-internetowe-przestana-sie-liczyc.html Fri, 22 May 2009 12:00:49 +0200 20090522120049013 Take a virtual tour around Old Town in Warsaw. Open the KMZ file prepared by NASK in Google Earth, to see where the companies with registered internet domain names are located. You can read more about it at http://webhosting.pl/Domeny.na.Starym.Miescie.w.Warszawie http://webhosting.pl/Domeny.na.Starym.Miescie.w.Warszawie Thu, 14 May 2009 16:07:16 +0200 20090514160716095 Recent changes made in Google engine forecast a hard competition between direct navigation (with use of internet domains) and search engines. To read more please follow the link http://webhosting.pl/Kto.bedzie.zwyciezca.wyszukiwarka.Google.czy.domena.internetowa http://webhosting.pl/Kto.bedzie.zwyciezca.wyszukiwarka.Google.czy.domena.internetowa Thu, 14 May 2009 10:34:27 +0200 20090514110605600 Dr. Andrzej Bartosiewicz from NASK will have his presentation on the 2nd of June, during the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference in Amsterdam. All the information about the upcoming event may be found under http://targetedtraffic.com/amsterdam/schedule.php http://targetedtraffic.com/amsterdam/schedule.php Thu, 14 May 2009 09:13:49 +0200 20090514110629757 In April 2009, share of the parked .pl domain names amounted to 6.39% with increase of 50 basis points M2M. The percentage of NameDrive's share in parked domain names increased to 64.17 whereas Sedo's share decreased to 35.76. Parked.com and Bodis.com share reached 0.07%. http://www.dns.pl/english/statistics.html Fri, 08 May 2009 08:13:16 +0200 20090507151316709 Renewal rate Y2Y for April 2009 has reached 64.17%, 1.89 percentage points decrease if compared to March 2009. http://www.dns.pl/english/statistics.html Thu, 07 May 2009 15:11:51 +0200 20090507151151833 NASK will no longer, at any stage, check NameServer configuration while delegating a domain. This approach allows to avoid additional lag resulting from the NS check procedure and eliminates the necessity of repeating the delegation operation in cases when there are, even temporary, problems with the Internet Network between NASK and the end server on the client side. http://www.dns.pl/english/dns_en.xml Tue, 05 May 2009 13:41:07 +0200 20090505134107867 Today we share with You phototographs, that were made during "Future Business Trends in the Domain Industry" conference which took place, on the 16th of April, at the Intercontinental Hotel. All the interested please visit http://secondarymarket2009.pl/photos/index.html. http://secondarymarket2009.pl/photos/index.html Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:24:38 +0200 20090421154907938 On the 16th of April 2009 NASK organized a "Future Business Trends in the Domain Industry" conference. All the presentations and audio recording (raw version) are available at www.secondarymarket2009.pl. http://www.secondarymarket2009.pl/agenda.html Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:05:38 +0200 20090417125238503 In March 2009, share of parked .pl domain names amounted to 5.89% of all DNS, thats an increase of 2 basis points, compared to previous month. The percentage of NameDrive's share in parked domain names increased to 58.48% whereas Sedo's share decreased to 41.47%. Parked.com and Bodis.com together share 0.05% of the market. http://www.dns.pl/english/statistics.html Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:16:50 +0200 20090403131650233 Renewal rate Y2Y for March 2009 has reached 66%, 1 percentage point decrease if compared to March 2009. http://www.dns.pl/english/statistics.html Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:11:46 +0200 20090403131146897 From May the 1st, till August the 31st 2009 NASK had prepared new promotion for its Partners involving functional domains.For every new direct .pl domain registration our Partners will be able to register, for a period of one year, any functional domain (excluding com.pl) for 1 PLN net only. http://www.dns.pl/english/registrar/index.html Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:32:33 +0200 20090402154734869 In February 2009, share of parked .pl domain names amounted to 5.87% of all DNS, decrease of 15 basis points in comparison to previous month. The percentage of NameDrive's share in parked domain names decreased to 57,96% whereas Sedo's share reached 42,04%. http://www.dns.pl/english/statistics.html Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:10:35 +0100 20090306121035054 Renewal rate Y2Y for February 2009 has reached 67.13%, above 2 percentage points decrease if compared to January 2009. http://www.dns.pl/english/statistics.html Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:10:20 +0100 20090306121020803 In a little over two weeks, ICANN's 34th international public meeting will take place in Mexico City. An intrinsic part of every ICANN meeting is the ability of the community to ask questions and make comments in a public setting. http://www.domainnews.com/en/general/icann-what-do-you-want-to-ask-in-mexico-city.html Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:33:48 +0100 20090212093527672 Analysis on the Subscribers' concentration factor in ccTLDs. http://bartosiewicz.pl/blog.html Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:54:10 +0100 20090203125410127 Renewal rate Y2Y for January 2009 has reached 69.37%, above 3 percentage points decrease if compared to December 2008. http://www.dns.pl/english/statistics.html Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:10:23 +0100 20090202121229120 Another NASK survey was conducted on a representative sample of 2500 .pl domain names. The intention was to answer the question for what purpose domains are being registered. It turns out that half of the names are used to conduct business activities. 39% of .pl domains are used for business pages, 4% accounts for online stores, 7% domains are parked or intended for sale. For private use 6% and 32% domains are unused or incorrectly redirected. http://www.dns.pl/english/registrar/web_pages_types_and_use.jpg Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:58:25 +0100 20090126124834555 As readers of blog.mobi will likely already know, dotMobi has announced that we're making one character and two character .mobi domains available. http://dotmobi.typepad.com/dotmobi/2009/01/more-on-one-and-two-character-mobi-domains-.html Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:47:57 +0100 20090126124834506 EURid, the European registry for .eu, is pleased to report that more than three million .eu domain names have been registered. The .eu top-level domain (TLD) passed this milestone on January 11, 2009. At 7:34 pm on Sunday evening, a resident of Germany registered the three millionth .eu domain name with accredited .eu registrar United Domains AG. http://www.eurid.eu/en/content/europeans-love-their-domain Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:33:57 +0100 20090126152945669 2008 was a breakthrough year for the Polish register of Internet domains. The end of December - with annual growth rate of 73.5% - witnessed the record-breaking level of 1 300 000 names registered in the .pl domain, which places Poland on the fifth place amongst the EU member states and tenth worldwide. http://nask.pl/newsID/id/499 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:38:49 +0100 20090122123849621 The significant growth of the .fr, the domain name evolutions on the international level and the practice by the users lead AFNIC to simplify the registration rules and procedures for .fr and .re domain names.AFNIC will implement EPP (starting 30 March 2009) and Important changes will come-along, notably for the redemption period, holder identification, rules for the registrar changes of a domain name and the unique authorization code that must be given to each domain name holder. http://www.afnic.fr/actu/nouvelles/210/evolution-of-the-fr-and-re-registration-rules-and-procedures-on-march-30th-2009.html Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:38:49 +0100 20090122135253777 We intend to replace the current domain availability checker (DAC) with two new domain checking tools.The first of these is the real time DAC, similar to the existing DAC service with the same access levels and some minor changes to the query data it returns. http://www.nominet.org.uk/news/latest/?contentId=5889 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:38:49 +0100 20090122134449674 As part of our ongoing development of the renewals process we would like to advise registrars that in February we will stop sending pro forma invoices to registrants.Pro forma invoices will be replaced by a programme of reminder emails that are sent to the registrant by Nominet. We only send these emails after the expiry date has been reached and, in all cases when the domain name is on a tag, we advise the registrant to contact their registrar to renew their domain name. http://www.nominet.org.uk/news/latest/?contentId=5950 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:38:49 +0100 20090122134159124 2008 was a superb year for the .pl ccTLD, says NASK, the .pl registry in a report reviewing the year. For the year, domain name registrations grew by 73.5 per cent to 1.3 million domains, making .pl the fifth largest ccTLD in Europe and tenth largest worldwide. http://www.domainnews.com/en/general/record-breaking-year-for-.pl.html Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:56:44 +0100 20090126131105072 Renewal rate Y2Y for December 2008 has reached 73.00%, 26 basis points increase if compared to November 2008. http://www.dns.pl/english/statistics.html Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:00:49 +0100 20090116120049682 In December 2008, share of parked .pl domain names amounted to 6.00% of all DNS, increase of 0.37 pp in comparison to previous month. The percentage of NameDrive's share in parked domain names decreased to 58% whereas Sedo's share reached 42%. http://www.dns.pl/english/statistics.html Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:14:31 +0100 20090116121431987 NASK has published the Annual Report. Here you can find most important details of the situation in the Polish, fastest growing, domain market in the recent year. http://bartosiewicz.pl/blog.html Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:50:30 +0100 20090113125030971 It is now possible to acquire a .fi domain name for 12 months. As of 5January 2009, the new price for registration, transfer and renewal of a fi domain name is 15 euros for one year and 41 euros for three years.It is still possible to apply for, renew or transfer a fi-domain for threeyears. https://domain.ficora.fi/fidomain/aca.aspx Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:02:31 +0100 20090113100306543 January 9, 2009 PayPal as additional method of payment has been introduced on www.dns.pl. http://www.dns.pl/english/onlinepayment.html Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:40:09 +0100 20090112104009336 ICANN is today announcing the implementation plan for the new Add Grace Period (AGP) Limits Policy adopted by the ICANN Board on 26 June 2008. A grace period is a specified number of calendar days following a gTLD registry operation in which the operation may be reversed and a credit may be issued to a Registrar. AGP is typically the five-day period following the initial registration of a domain name. http://www.domainnews.com/en/general/icann-advisory-add-grace-period-limits-policy.html Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:36:02 +0100 20081219103602908 Since the beginning of December DNS BE offers the possibility to lock a .be domain name. A 'locked' domain name cannot be transferred to another holder or to another registrar and so protects the domain holder against unauthorised transfers. http://www.dns.be/pdf/Pressrelease_en_20081211.pdf Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:20:47 +0100 20081219102047481 2008 has seen more than 200,000 new .be domain names. It's the first time ever that the number of new .be registrations has exceeded 200,000. http://www.dns.be/en/home.php?n=424 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:19:06 +0100 20081219101906698 VeriSign: Two of the top 25 ccTLDs grew at double-digit quarterly growth rates including .pl (Poland) and .ru (Russian Federation). Poland with 70% Y2Y growth is the world's leader among TLDs. http://www.verisign.com/static/044349.pdf Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:12:02 +0100 20081205131422202 As of December 1, 2008, parking share of the total .pl market raised to 5.63%, 21 basis points higher if compared to October. Market share of the biggest player, NameDrive, rose to 61% (from 60%). As of parking techniques, URL redirection is still less popular with only 9% of the sites parked using URL. http://www.dns.pl/english/statistics.html Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:49:13 +0100 20081202094813399 Poland has reached the 6th position in Europe and the 5th position in European Union in the ranking of the country code (national) Top Level domain names (ccTLD). As of December 1st, 2008, NASK with 1.289.763 domain names had 1505 more addresses than AFNIC, French ccTLD Registry. Top 6 ccTLD registries in Europe are as follows: Germany with over 12 million names, UK with over 7 million names, Netherlands with more than 3 million names, Russia with 1.750 million names and finally Italy with slightly more than 1.5 million names. Such impressive result is due to the 70% growth of .pl names Y2Y and stable 72.5% renewal rate Y2Y. It's worth to mention that on May 6th, 2008 NASK celebrated registration of 1.000.000th domain name. http://www.dns.pl/english/statistics.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:49:13 +0100 20081202094813198 Renewal rate Y2Y for November 2008 has reached 72.74%, 31 basis points increase if compared to October 2008. http://www.dns.pl/english/statistics.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:49:13 +0100 20081202094813196 CENTR has published the latest edition of "Domain Wire" with articles by Andrzej Bartosiewicz (CENTR Chairman) and Krzysztof Olesik (DNS Technical Team Manager). https://www.centr.org/main/4716-CTR/version/default/part/AttachmentData/data/Issue%201,%202008.pdf?branch=main&language=default Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:01:04 +0100 20081126110104689 According to Anti-Phishing Alliance of China, by October 30, 2008 it had suspended the domain names of more than 300 Chinese phishing websites with the help of the anti-phishing system based on the .CN domain names. http://www.chinatechnews.com/2008/11/25/8088-china-suspends-300-phishing-website-domain-names/ Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:35:14 +0100 20081126093514256 Whether the IETF should use its resources to encourage DNS registries, ISPs and enterprises to upgrade to the ultimate DNS security solution, DNSSEC, or whether it should tweak the DNS protocols to address the so-called Kaminsky bug as an interim step is being debated at a meeting of the IETF held in Minneapolis last week reports Network World. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/112008-ietf-dns-debate.html Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:34:25 +0100 20081126093425568 Czech Internet users have refused to introduce diacritics into the system of .CZ domains for the third time in a row. It ensues from a public opinion survey which was carried out for the CZ.NIC association, the administrator of the Czech domain register, by Markent. 81 percent of the responding organizations and 66 percent of inquired ordinary users of the Internet have objected against the introduction of the IDN system. http://www.nic.cz/page/575/diacritics-in-domains.cz-refused-again/ Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:28:33 +0100 20081124092833851 The US federal government is showing tangible progress as it works to meet a January deadline to implement a sweeping overhaul of its internet address servers, a move designed to harden them against attacks that could send millions of users to impostor sites run by scammers. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/18/gov_root_signed/ Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:19:35 +0100 20081124091935697 As from December 2008, DENIC and the DENIC members will make available a new procedure to domain holders who want to change their provider. The central feature of this new procedure is the transmission of a password, which is called AuthInfo. http://www.denic.de/en/denic/presse/press_91.html Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:58:21 +0100 20081124085821138 Beginning Tuesday 16 December 2008 at 01:00 hours Tehran time, the list of 500 most recently released second level .ir domain names will be shown on the IRNIC website. http://www.nic.ir/ Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:55:26 +0100 20081124092400836 Recent statistics on parking shows that 5,42% of registered names under .pl are parked. Previous statistics showing market share of the parking sites were based on the data collected from the parking companies and included also domains that were parked in the past but than removed. NASK recent data shows, that as of October 31st, 2008, the real percentage of the parked names is 5,42%. http://www.bartosiewicz.pl/blog.html Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:46:22 +0100 20081113154622435