Ru-Сenter: The domain market in .RU amounted to 375 million rubles.
The income of domain registrars cannot be called high, the director of the Ru-Center Alexey Lesnikov said at a press conference in RIA Novosti . According to his estimate, the entire domain market in the RU zone amounted to 375 million rubles in 2006 ... With the deduction of infrastructure costs - financing of the coordination and technical centers of the RU domain (55 million rubles), it turns out that the shares of registering companies and their partners working with the end customer, I had 160 million rubles. In 2005, the volume of the domain market, according to J'son & Partners, amounted to 220 million rubles (excluding indicators for the secondary sale of domains).
There are 12 accredited registrars in the Russian segment of the Internet. Last year, new players did not appear among them. According to the project manager of stat.nic.ru Pavel Khramtsov, companies that could deal with domain registration do not do this, because “they don’t want to push”. In addition, the domain business can be beneficial only as a supplement to other areas of work.
In 2006, the number of second-level domain names in RU increased by 60.8% to 718 thousand names. By February 2007, the figure was 756 thousand, and by the fall it is expected to overcome the turn of a million domains. In addition to RU, only four of 248 national domains showed a two-digit percentage increase: AT (Austria), ES (Spain), FR (France), US (USA).
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This year, the Ru-Center states an increase in the number of registrations for individuals (among them, of course, cybersquatters are also represented). These are mainly Muscovites; their average age is 26 years (earlier - 28). Outside the capital, the purchase of domains is quite active, but local customers sometimes choose third-level domains that are tied to a specific region. Residents of Ukraine, USA and Israel also continue to register domains in the RU zone, according to Pavel Khramtsov, mainly from nostalgic feelings.
There are 12 accredited registrars in the Russian segment of the Internet. Last year, new players did not appear among them. According to the project manager of stat.nic.ru Pavel Khramtsov, companies that could deal with domain registration do not do this, because “they don’t want to push”. In addition, the domain business can be beneficial only as a supplement to other areas of work.
In 2006, the number of second-level domain names in RU increased by 60.8% to 718 thousand names. By February 2007, the figure was 756 thousand, and by the fall it is expected to overcome the turn of a million domains. In addition to RU, only four of 248 national domains showed a two-digit percentage increase: AT (Austria), ES (Spain), FR (France), US (USA).
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This year, the Ru-Center states an increase in the number of registrations for individuals (among them, of course, cybersquatters are also represented). These are mainly Muscovites; their average age is 26 years (earlier - 28). Outside the capital, the purchase of domains is quite active, but local customers sometimes choose third-level domains that are tied to a specific region. Residents of Ukraine, USA and Israel also continue to register domains in the RU zone, according to Pavel Khramtsov, mainly from nostalgic feelings.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/3442/
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