NIC.AT, the official registry of the country-code Top-Level-Domain of Austria, just unveiled their new NIC.AT Report.  The Registry will be publishing this report three times a year to keep registrants and registrars abreast of the latest developments, trends and issues within the .AT universe.  Additionally, the reports will have facts and figures of the .at zone, including statistics on new registrations and geographic analysis of .AT’s influence around the globe.

The inaugural report showed that .AT, .co.AT and .or.AT are in very high demand.  With 932,132 Domains under Management, the Registry is at the doorstep of the magical 1 Million domain milestone.  Empirically, HEXONET can validate the growth in demand for .AT Domains, as our own reseller registrations for AT have also been steadily increasing this past year.

Amongst registrants, two thirds of all .AT Domains are registered by Austrian nationals, most of which originate from the beautiful city of Vienna.  Outside of Austria though, Germans are the most active among international registrants.

Interesting Statistics:

• 71% of all registered domains within the .AT zone are active websites.
• 20% are redirects, meaning these domains are redirected to other websites
• only 9% are utilized for Domain Parking (Pay-Per-Click)

Key Figures:

Registration History

Distribution of .AT Domains within Austria:

HEXONET would like to thank NIC.AT for publishing this excellent report, a must read for anyone in the industry or anyone connected to the Registry.  Again thanks to the Registry and specifically to our friends Richard Wein and Robert Schischka for making this report happen. For more details on the latest NIC.AT report along with information on the secondary market, please visit NIC.AT Report.

Source: www.NIC.AT

 

 
.AT Special Domain Pricing at HEXONET

Until April 30, 2010, HEXONET is running a .AT special volume pricing promotion where .AT domains can be registered as low as 2.14 (net price: 1.80) EUR per domain/year. The special .AT pricing is based on the volume a reseller does every 24 hours. Simply put, the more .AT domains registered in a given day the lower the price falls that day! Please note that at the end of the each day, discounts levels are reset back to the Daily Start Price of 3.45 (net price: 2.90) EUR per .AT domain.

Pro-rated Volume Pricing

• Domain Volume: 0 – 5 | .AT domains @ 3.45 (net price: 2.90) EUR per domain/year – Daily Start Price
• Domain Volume: 6 – 10 | .AT domains @ 2.86 (net price: 2.40) EUR per domain/year
• Domain Volume: 11 + | .AT domains @ 2.14 (net price: 1.80) EUR per domain/year

Rules and Program Guidelines

• This promotion ends April 30, 2010.
• Promotional prices only apply to new 1 year registrations (.AT domain renewals and/or transfers are excluded).
• The price promotion only applies to .AT. Excluded from this promotion are .CO.AT and .OR.AT Domains.
• Tiered pricing discounts are based on registrations over a 24 hour cycle.
• Pricing resets to the Daily Start Price at the end of each day (00:00 UTC).
• Daily 24 hour volume promotion was modeled using feedback from resellers and domainers to prevent abuse.

The Sizzle:

dot .ME, the ccTLD (country code Top-Level-Domain) of Montenegro, even now, nearly two years after its release, is still as popular as ever, if not more!

With the Registry’s second anniversary quickly approaching (second anniversary of “Go Live” on July 16, 2010), HEXONET is not only spotlighting the domain, but will also run a huge promotion towards their reseller channel and make obtaining a .ME even cheaper and better.

• dot ME – A sensational Success Story! Since July 16, 2008 (“GoLive”) dot ME has been on a tremendous journey of success.  Highlights of the past couple of years:

• July 16, 2008 .ME officially launches and ushers in a new era of personalization on the web.  Minimum registration period is 2 years at an average annual market retail price of 19.00 EUR per Domain/Year
• Within two (2) days, .ME has an astonishing 50,000 Domains under management with most registrants coming from the USA, UK, Germany, Canada and China respectively.
• August 5, 2008, just two weeks after launch, the registry announced that they had already surpassed 100,000 Domains under Management!
• September 2008, .ME auctioned the first set of eleven (11) premium domains during the Traffic Conference in New York, where proceeds amazingly total over 218,000 USD! – “date.me” was the highest sold .ME domain at 70,000 USD!
• Keeping the fast pace of changes going at the registry, on October 1, 2008, the Registry reduced the two (2) year minimum registration requirement to one (1) year, for the benefit for all.
• January 2009, the second .ME premium domain auction took place at the domain industry’s premier event “DomainFest Global ’09″ – five (5) more premium .ME Domains were auctioned off successfully
• February 10, 2009, approx. 7 months after “GoLive”, dot .ME has over 200,000 Domains registered!
• April 2, 2009, Domain.ME releases another 35 premium .ME Domains for auction through SEDO
• May 18, 2009, Domain.ME announces “A Limited Time Auction of Premium Domains with NameJet™” where 15 additional premium .ME Domain names were successfully auctioned.
• May 20, 2009, less than a year after “GoLive”, .ME hits quarter of Million Domains under Management
• August 27, 2009, following up on the first highly successful auction with NameJet™, .ME announces the second premium domain auction with NameJet™.
• September 9, 2009, WordPress starts using “WP.me” as their standard URL Shortener
• January 5, 2010, FaceBook, The World’s Largest Social Network, uses .ME to provide access for its mobile users with “FB.me”
• January 26, 2010, Hollywood realizes the value of .ME domains, by branding the upcoming 3D/CGI movie from Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment with the .ME domain Despicable.Me.

• Continued success has been the story of .ME.  The dot ME organization has been a model Registry in the way it does press releases, attends key industry events, and most importantly, the way it stays in touch with its registrars.

• Why .ME Continues to Stay Hot! .ME is an ideal domain for the following:

• Personal use for blogs, family pictures, …etc.
• Great for call-to-action domains, such as call.me, date.me, insure.me, …etc.
• Ideal for brands to give your brand a more personal touch, basically making your brand more personal
• Some cool .ME Domains are fits.me, appo.me, despicable.me, fwd4.me, whyhire.me,  … and many more.

• If you are interested in registering a .ME domain, simply go to www.hexonet.net, fill the online sign-up form, load your account and register away!  Be sure to take advantage of our .ME Promo starting this April (running through to  June 30th) where .ME domains will be going away for at a sensational promotional price!  Get your personal domain today!
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• As always, if you are interested in registering larger volumes of domains, please do not hesitate to send an email to sales@hexonet.net.

HEXONET’s DotAsia backordering technology is one of the first, if not the first, backorderingservices for .ASIA domains – thousands of domains soon to expire on DotAsia’s anniversary.

Vancouver, Canada March 3, 2010 — HEXONET (www.hexonet.net) announced today one of the domain industry’s first, if not the first, backordering services for DotAsia domain names. Utilizing HEXONET’s revolutionary domain backordering search engine and service platform, starting today, for the first time, anyone will be able to search for expiring .ASIA domains as well as backorder them even before they expire. Again, only at HEXONET, can .ASIA domain backorders be placed using this new technology.

“With DotAsia’s Landrush anniversary fast approaching, HEXONET was determined to launch the DotAsia backordering service as quickly as possible,” said Robert Birkner, Chief Strategy Officer of HEXONET. Birkner also went on to say, “On February 20th, thousands of domains, if not tens of thousands, first went into redemption (expiration) resulting from DotAsia’s massive launch two years ago. Many fantastic domains are going to be up for grabs towards the end of March and only HEXONET customers will have the newest technology to take advantage of the opportunity.”

Edmon Chung, Chief Executive Officer of the DotAsia registry, has been quoted as saying, “We are excited to see technological innovations built around DotAsia domains. With the implementation of the Asian Free Trade Area between China and 10 South East Asian nations earlier this year, the usage and demand of DotAsia domains will continue to grow, not only for new domains, but also for domains that have been previously registered as businesses expand to the regional Asian marketplace.”

Individuals, businesses, and organizations can sign up for free at HEXONET and immediately start backordering .ASIA domains. Backordering for other domain extensions–such as .DE, .INFO, .BIZ, .ORG, and more–is also available.

About HEXONET
Since 1999, HEXONET has been a leading developer and service provider of reseller technologies for the domain industry. Thousands of resellers, startups and service providers from across the world trust HEXONET as their domain platform provider. And today, HEXONET manages over six hundred thousand domains for its clients.