http://www.bartosiewicz.pl/ Latest news from DNS and ENUM world by Andrzej Bartosiewicz en Copyright by Andrzej Bartosiewicz 2007-2009 on, 24 April 2009 09:00:00 +0000 http://bartosiewicz.pl/blog.html After one of Brazil's biggest banks has suffered an attack that redirected its customers to fraudulent websites, checks of Polish banks have been made. Results are alarming... 20090424 Fri, 24 April 2009 09:00:00 +0000 http://bartosiewicz.pl/blog.html Analysis on the Subscribers' concentration factor in ccTLDs in 2009. 20090203 Mon, 03 February 2009 09:00:00 +0000 http://bartosiewicz.pl/blog.html NASK has published the Annual Domain Report. 2008 was the best ever year for domain names market in Poland. The yearly growth was 73.5% with more than 1 300 000 domains registered as of the end of 2008. Here you can find most important details of the situation in Polish domain market in the past year. 20090113 Tue, 13 January 2009 09:00:00 +0000 http://bartosiewicz.pl/blog.html 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. 20081204 Thu, 04 December 2008 11:00:00 +0000 http://bartosiewicz.pl/blog.html Poland 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, Great Britain 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. 20081202 Tue, 02 December 2008 11:00:00 +0000 http://tinyurl.com/DomainWire2008 This year we are facing a crisis in the banking and financial sector followed by a general slowdown of the economy in many countries. A crisis which reminds us of similar problems the internet industry was facing in 2000 and 2001 when the 'dot-com' bubble exploded and everyone learned the hard way that the 'new economy' was subject to the same rules as the old one. This lesson is one of the reasons why the internet sector today seems relatively unaffected by the current problems. The Domain Name System (DNS) is a key element in the functioning of the internet and is in particular important for the eCommerce industry. As Top Level Domain registries we play an important role in the stability of the DNS and therefore must ensure the safety of our domains. With this goal in mind, CENTR members have over the years focused much of their attention and resources on improved security, business contingency and financial stability of their organisations. As a result, they have been able to provide uninterrupted services and a very high level of security. The DNS is built and managed to withstand natural disasters and massive cyber attacks (such as the ones in Estonia in 2007 and Georgia in 2008). This high level of resilience can only be achieved by continued investment in technical infrastructure and redundancy across all our business units. I would invite other stakeholders in the Internet Society such as Internet Service Providers and software developers to start an open dialogue on how we can achieve the same level of security across the whole internet industry. I hope you enjoy this edition of Domain Wire. Read more... 20081201 Mon, 01 December 2008 09:20:00 +0000 http://tvnCNBC.pl Domain Names are important part of the on-line business. A good domain names is a key to attract customers. Andrzej Bartosiewicz gives advices on how to get back the name that has been registered by someone else. For more watch CNBC. To get access to the recording go to the above link and search for 'nask'. After that, choose the file recorded on November 24th, 2008. 20081125 Tue, 25 November 2008 11:00:00 +0000 http://webhosting.pl/Patronat.medialny.konferencja.FUTURE.BUSINESS.TRENDS.IN.DOMAIN.INDUSTRY Read more about the conference on Webhosting.pl. More info in Engligh soon... 20081125 Tue, 25 November 2008 11:00:00 +0000 http://bartosiewicz.pl/blog.html NASK recent data shows, that as of October 31st, 2008, the real percentage of the parked names is 5,42%. 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. 9% of such names is parked using URL redirection and 91% is parked using Name Servers delegation. Two companies dominated parking market in Poland: SEDO with 41% market and Name Drive with 59% of the total paring market in Poland. Aftermarket includes not only parked names but also domain names for sale and sites that are developed for future sales. Rough estimation of this part of the market is 2-5 percentage points. As of today, the whole aftermarket in Poland should be estimated for 8-9% of the toal number of 1.3 mln domain names 20081113 Wed, 13 November 2008 12:44:00 +0000 http://bartosiewicz.pl/blog.html#blog20080908 DNS servers handled more than 300 billion queries in last 12 months (September 2007 - August 2008). Despite the high number of handled queries, .PL servers are ready to handle much higher load than average today. Unfortunately, for security reasons I can not disclose information of the maximum capacity of the DNS servers. It's important to add that thanks to .PL Registry investments in the DNS infrastructure, our "computing resurces" are spread across 23 geographic locations in Poland and abroad. If you are interested in the details, please take a look at the map of the (approximated) existing locations of our Secondary Names Servers: http://dns.pl/map.html The main reason NASK invests in the infrastructure is the protection against Distributed Denial of Service attacks. For more about DDoS attack, please a look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack Increasing the computational resources (bandwidth, "processor time" etc.) is the easiest and most efficient method to counteract DDoS. Thanks to the excess of the computing power and available bandwidth plus geographical disperse of the servers, hipothetical DDoS attack against one or few .PL DNS servers do not cause the overall failure of the DNS and queries still can be handled uninterrupted. 20080908002 Mon, 08 September 2008 12:44:00 +0000 http://bartosiewicz.pl/blog.html#blog20080907 It's a pleasure to inform that VeriSign recently published the The Domain Name Industry Brief (September 2008) mentioning .PL domain as one of the fastes growing ccTLD regardless of the fact that domain market delicned in Q2 2008. VeriSign says: "The number of new domain name registrations across all TLDs in the second quarter of 2008 was 11.7 million. This represented a decline of new registrations by 18 percent from a very strong first quarter and eight percent from second quarter 2007, driven largely by a decline in ccTLD growth. The number of new domain name registrations reflects seasonal slowing historically seen in the second quarter." Despite this general slow down, "In addition to .au and .br, the overall ccTLD growth was also driven by double digit growth quarter over quarter for .ru (Russian Federation) and .pl (Poland)" It's also important to remind that .PL was mentioned in Report can be dowloaded VeriSign Industry Brief (June 2008) as: "few ccTLDs that experienced remarkable double digit growth quarter over quarter, including .pl (Poland), .cn, .es (Spain), .ru (Russian Federation) and .fr (France)." VeriSign Q1 report can be dowloaded here: http://www.verisign.com/static/043939.pdf and VeriSign Q2 (recent) report can be dowloaded here: http://www.verisign.com/static/044191.pdf 20080908001 Mon, 08 September 2008 12:44:00 +0000 http://tvnCNBC.pl See interview with Andrzej on Domianing, taken on August 20, 2008. Go to tvnCNBC.pl, login to your account and search for "nask" or "domeny". 20080822001 Fri, 22 August 2008 15:15:00 +0000 http://bartosiewicz.pl/blog See Andrzej's NEW blog on bartosiewicz.pl/blog 20080821001 Thu, 21 August 2008 12:10:00 +0000 http://webhosting.pl/85%25.domen.jest.wylapywanych.w.pierwszej.dobie.od.wygasniecia Blog post: Dropcatching in Poland becomes more popular. As of July 2008, 85% of expired domain names are taken within first 24 hours. It's even more interesting that 45% names is registered in first 2 seconds after expiry. Amazing progress of domainers efficiency. 20080820001 Wed, 20 August 2008 12:30:00 +0000 http://www.internetstandard.pl/news/162411_1.html InternetStandard publish an article about DNS-secondary market under .PL. Take a look at Andrzej's comments in the text. 20080814002 Thu, 14 August 2008 12:00:00 +0100 http://webhosting.pl/Resolwery.obslugujace.domeny.polskiego.rzadu.wciaz.podatne.na.atak Webhosting publish an article about serious threat to Polish government servers. Now it's obvious that web pages and servers of the Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Police are vulnerable to cache poisoning threat. See Andrzej's comments... 20080814001 Thu, 14 August 2008 12:00:00 +0100 http://webhosting.pl/Nowe.domeny._.mniej.emocji Take a look at Webhosting BLOG post dedicated to the new idea of ICANN: introducing brand-new TLDs. And who will make real money on new top level domains... 20080731004 Wed, 31 July 2008 12:00:00 +0100 http://www.bartosiewicz.pl/2008_04_23_AFTERMARKET.pdf Presentation during CENTR GA on aftermarket promotion under .pl. 20080731003 Wed, 31 July 2008 12:00:00 +0100 http://webhosting.pl/Po.pierwsze.bezpieczenstwo%3B.po.drugie.jakosc Webhosting BLOG post: Security first, quality next. 20080731002 Wed, 31 July 2008 12:00:00 +0100 http://www.webinside.pl/news/4887 Webinside poblication: Heaven for domainers - NASK start expired domains list publication. 20080731001 Wed, 31 July 2008 12:00:00 +0100 http://nask.pl/wydarzeniaID/id/465 On May 6th, 2008 11:51 AM, NASK has reached 1.000.000 domain names registered under .PL 20080507001 Wed, 07 May 2008 12:00:00 +0100 http://www.bartosiewicz.pl/2008_04_25_RENEWAL_RATES.bmp Stats about .PL: renewal rates in 2007, 2006 and 2005 with detailed information of the % of renewal after 1st year (after registration), 2nd year (after registration) and 3rd year (after registration). 20080425001 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:00:00 +0100 http://www.bartosiewicz.pl/market.html NASK prepares for Orlando TRAFFIC conference. The main purpose is to attract domainers from US/Canada to start investing under .PL. Leaflet on Registrar Program can be downloaded from bartosiewicz.pl/registrar and the leaflet on DNT and WLS can be downloaded from bartosiewicz.pl/DNT 20080424001 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:00:00 +0100 http://webhosting.pl/blogi/rynek_domen_andrzej_bartosiewicz_nask/rozwoj_rynku_aftermarket_czyli_troche_statystyk_z_szybkosci_rejestracji_domen Did you know that 12% of expired .PL domain names is registered within 2 seconds after expiration...? Article on WEBHOSTING includes more stats on AFTERMARKET development. 20080423001 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:54:00 +0100 http://www.bartosiewicz.pl/2008_04_11_PARTNERZY.pdf Annual meeting with Registrars (Partners) aimed on NASK's business and technical plans for 2008/2009. 20080411001 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:00:00 +0100 https://www.centr.org/main/meetings/3608-CTR.html CENTR General Assembly took place on March 6-7, 2008. This CENTR GA has been dedicated to ccTLD organization, new EU Electronic Communications Framework and Internet Infrastructure. During GA elections to the Board of Directors took place. 20080309001 Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:00:00 +0100 http://www.bartosiewicz.pl/2007_11_27_MALAYSIA.pdf Presentation of the project conducted in Poland on centralized database for Number Portability, caller location in case of emergency calls (112), Telephony Subscribers and Infrastructure ENUM. Presentations and related documents are available on-line at: www.bartosiewicz.pl/ENUM 20071128001 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:00:00 +0100