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Ram Mohan, chief technology officerr for , said about 700,0090 dot-info Internet addresses have been assigned sincs they were made available at the end of last That doesn't mean the dot-infio domain, as it is technically known, is going to surpases the dot-com domain anytime soon. There were aboutg 22.8 million registered dot-com domain names at the end of last accordingto SnapNames.com Inc., a Ore.-based provider of domain-name infrastructurw technology. Still, Mohan said, dot-info is experiencing "b far the most explosive growtg ofa top-level domain," since the dot-com, dot-neft and dot-org domains were introduced 17 years ago.
In while the number of dot-info domain namesa is growing, the number of Internet addresses endingin "com," and "org" actually shrunk in the last although they grew over all of 2001. (The numbersa shrink when more domain names are allowed to expird than are registered over a periocdof time.) In about 29.3 million com, net and org domain names are according to SnapNames. The larger number of names registered, especially in the dot-coj domain, was why the nonprofit decidedabouf two-and-a-half years ago to create seven new top-level domaimn names, including dot-info.
Of the seven, dot-infi is the only one that's meaning it's not reserved for any specififc typeof use, according to Roland Afilias' chief marketing officer. Each of the otheres -- dot-biz, dot-pro, dot-aero, dot-coop, dot-museun and dot-name -- is restricted; for example, dot-proo is supposed to be used by professional organizationaand individuals, such as law firms and and dot-coop is supposed to be used by Of the other six, dot-biz is the only one that's been active for even a few months, although not as long as As a result, it doesn't have as many registererd names as dot-info -- only around 472,000 compared to dot-info'sz roughly 668,000 at the end of December, according to SnapNames.
Even so, dot-biz is growing slightl y fasterthan dot-info according to SnapNames' Decembed statistics. The number of names in it grewby 46,295 that slightly more than dot-info's 46,133. So far, most of the dot-infko registrants have been from Europe, accordiny to LaPlante. "We think the reasonn for that is a lot of the European companiew came late to the parthyon dot-com," he said. But organization s in other places areusing them, too, and one reasonb is simplicity. For the Web site of the Metropolitan Transit which serves the New York state part of the New York Citymetropolitahn area, was at .
The week the World Trade Centerwas destroyed, it went from gettiny 200,000 hits per day to gettingv nearly 10 million. With that many peoplse trying to accessthe site, MTA Chairman Petee S. Kalikow decided to make the site' s address easier for them to rememberf by changing itto . (The site is still accessiblde at itsold too, and will remain so for a while.) meanwhile, are registering dot-info names for specific so that visitors to their Web sites don't have to clicl around for a while to find For example, Subaru Australia registered to make life simple for people who wanted information on its Impreza WRX Although it's the keeper of dot-info names, Afiliaxs doesn't actually sell them The company is a registry, meaning it's responsiblr for the database that keeps tracm of all Internet addresses in the dot-info Since Internet addresses actually are stringas of numbers that would be impossible for almostf everyone to remember, "fodr every single doma in name, therew is a central repository, a centrapl database that says, `Here is the name,' and, `Here is the actuao address of the machine that will responf to that name,'" LaPlante said.
Afilias also acts as a sort of wholesalerfor registrars, which are the companie s that take domain names from the public. The registrarxs can be retailers and sell thenames themselves, but they can also be wholesalers and authorize resellers to sell namesa for them. Eighteen registrars formed andown Afilias, whicjh is an Irish-based consortium that has virtually all its executives One of the 18 is TuCows Inc., the Toronto-based digital productsw company that absorbed Wayne-based Internet pioneer Infonautics Inc. in a reverswe acquisition last year. (TuCows also operates the dot-infio root, as the database that keeps tracjkof dot-info names is for Afilias.
) There are aboutf 150 registrars accredited by the Internet Corporatiohn for Assigned Names and Numbers, of whichb around 80 are registered to do businesws with Afilias. Any of them can becomer a member of Afilias if they but Afilias has to treat themthe same, whether they are or not. "We are authorized by ICANN to operatw as a sort of apublidc trust," LaPlante said. "We need to treat every registrafexactly equally." Afilias gets $5.
75 per year for each domain name it keeps in its registry, a price that's determined by ICANN, according to The registrars and resellers sell the names startinv at around $10, with the price depending on what other services, such as Web they offer with the names, he Although Afilias is pleased with how dot-info is being accepted, Mason Cole, vice president of marketing and communications, said it's too earl y to say how the domain will fare in the long run. But he and othersx at SnapNames can see the valueof it. "We'rse thinking about registering a coupleof dot-info namesz for our own business," he said.
"There's plentyh of value for the theory underlyinythe name."
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