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Registry Operator's Report REGISTRY OPERATOR’S REPORT July 2007 Afilias Limited Monthly Operator Report – July 2007 As required by the ICANN/Afilias Limited Registry Agreement (Section 3.1(c)(iv)) this report provides an overview of Afilias Limited activity through the end of the reporting month. The information is primarily presented in table and chart format with text explanations as deemed necessary. Information is provided in order as listed in Appendix 4 of the Registry Agreement. Report Index Section 1 Accredited Registrar Status Section 2 Service Level Agreement Performance Section 3 INFO Zone File Access Activity Section 4 Completed SRS/System Software Releases Section 5 WhoIs Service Activity Section 6 Total Number of Transactions by Subcategory by Month Section 7 Daily Transaction Range Copyright © 2001-2007 Afilias Limited Page 2 of 9 Afilias Limited Monthly Operator Report – July 2007 Section 1 – Accredited Registrar Status – July 2007 The following table displays the current number and status of the ICANN accredited registrars. The registrars are grouped into three categories: 1.Operational registrars: Those who have authorized access into the Shared Registration System (SRS) for processing domain name registrations. 2.Registrars in the Ramp-up Period: Those who have received a password to the Afilias Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E) environment. The OT&E environment is provided to allow registrars to develop and test their systems with the SRS. 3.Registrars in the Pre-Ramp-up Period: Those who have been sent a welcome letter from Afilias, but have not yet executed the Registry Confidentiality Agreement and/or have not yet submitted a completed Registrar Information Sheet. July 2007 No. of Status Registrars Operational Registrars 257 Registrars In Ramp-Up Period 57 Registrars in Pre-Ramp-Up Period 387 Total 701 Copyright © 2001-2007 Afilias Limited Page 3 of 9 Afilias Limited Monthly Operator Report – July 2007 Section 2 – Service Level Agreement Performance – July 2007 The following table compares the SLA requirements with Actual Performance for the reporting month. As required by the ICANN/Afilias Limited Agreement, Afilias Limited is committed to provide service levels as outlined in Appendix 7 of the agreement and to comply with the requirements of the SLA Appendix 10 of the agreement. The SLA is incorporated into the Afilias Registry Registrar Agreement that is executed with all operational registrars. Component/Service Availability Performance Required Actual Required Actual DNS Unplanned 300 minutes None 100%< 5 AXFR/IXFR Updates < 5 minutes minutes Planned 480 minutes(1) 123 minutes Unplanned 20 seconds None Resolution of .info domains, each < 300 22 milliseconds name-server (1) milliseconds (Avg.) Planned 480 minutes None WHOIS Unplanned 240 minutes None < 800 71 milliseconds Singular query/response milliseconds (Avg.) Planned 480 minutes(1) 24 minutes BILLING Unplanned 240 minutes None No Account balance check/modify No requirement (1) requirement Planned 480 minutes 24 minutes Unplanned 300 minutes None No Manual balance adjust No requirement requirement Planned 480 minutes 24 minutes ADMIN Unplanned 300 minutes None No Update Registrar profile No requirement requirement Planned 480 minutes(1) 24 minutes Unplanned 300 minutes None No Update Registrar status No requirement (1) requirement Planned 480 minutes 24 minutes PROTOCOL INTERFACE Unplanned 240 minutes None < 800 44 milliseconds Write Operations milliseconds (Avg.) Planned 480 minutes(1) 24 minutes Unplanned 240 minutes None < 1600 12 milliseconds Transfer milliseconds (Avg.) Planned 480 minutes(1) 24 minutes Unplanned 240 minutes None < 400 3 milliseconds Query Operations (1) milliseconds (Avg.) Planned 480 minutes 24 minutes (1) No more than 240 minutes per week. In addition, each minute of Unplanned Outage Time subtracts from the available Monthly Planned outage Time up to four (4) hours. Copyright © 2001-2007 Afilias Limited Page 4 of 9 Afilias Limited Monthly Operator Report – July 2007 Section 3 – INFO Zone File Access Activity – July 2007 The following table summarizes the zone file access activity for the current reporting month. As required by the ICANN/Afilias Limited Agreement, Afilias provides third parties bulk access to the zone file for the .INFO TLD. Zone file access passwords at the end of the previous month Jun-07 324 New zone file access passwords 1 Total zone file access approvals at the end of the reporting month Jul-07 325 Copyright © 2001-2007 Afilias Limited Page 5 of 9 Afilias Limited Monthly Operator Report – July 2007 Section 4 – Completed SRS/System Software Releases As required by the ICANN/Afilias Limited Registry Agreement, The following table shows significant releases that have occurred during the month (it excludes software released only to fix a bug). The Afilias Limited Shared Registration System (SRS) is continually being improved to better meet the needs of accredited registrars. Target Complete Release Name Features Date Date (None in Jul 2007) Copyright © 2001-2007 Afilias Limited Page 6 of 9 Afilias Limited Monthly Operator Report – July 2007 Section 5 – WhoIs Service Activity The total monthly “Whois” queries are shown below (In Thousands) Month Total Peak Average Jul-07 77,588.8 4,462.9 2,502.9 Copyright © 2001-2007 Afilias Limited Page 7 of 9 Afilias Limited Monthly Operator Report – July 2007 Section 6 – Total Number of Transactions by Subcategory by Month In compliance with Section-6 of Appendix 4 to the ICANN/Afilias Limited Registry Agreement, the tables that follow present the number of transactions for the current month for each transaction subcategories. 6a – Total Monthly Domain Name Transactions by Subcategory (In Thousands) Deletes Add Grace Total Add RGP Failures Modify Renew Transfer Check Restores Period 117,144.4 409.5 109.0 340.7 52.4 5,396.6 263.2 74.8 110,498.1 0.1 6b – Total Monthly Domain Name Transaction Failures by Subcategory (In Thousands) Total Add Delete Modify Renew Transfer Check Restores 931.9 72.4 52.4 637.6 9.3 64.0 96.2 0.0 6c – Total Monthly Name Server Transactions by Subcategory (In Thousands). Total Add Delete Modify Renew Transfer Check Restores 2,214.9 46.3 19.2 31.6 Not Not 2,117.8 Not Applicable Applicable Applicable 6d – Total Monthly Name Server Transaction Failures by Subcategory (In Thousands) Total Add Delete Modify Renew Transfer Check Restores 25.8 17.7 4.6 3.2 Not Not 0.3 Not Applicable Applicable Applicable 6e – Total Monthly Contact Information Transactions by Subcategory (In Thousands) Total Add Delete Modify Renew Transfer Check Restores Not Not 2,595.8 1,545.2 27.7 346.0 Applicable 0.0 676.9 Applicable 6f – Total Monthly Contact Information Transaction Failures by Subcategory (In Thousands). Total Add Delete Modify Renew Transfer Check Restores Not Not 113.1 100.9 0.7 11.5 Applicable 0.0 0.0 Applicable Copyright © 2001-2007 Afilias Limited Page 8 of 9 Afilias Limited Monthly Operator Report – July 2007 Section 7 – Average Daily Transaction Range The range of transaction volume is shown for each month along with the average daily transaction volume. Average Daily Transaction Range (In Thousands) 12,000 Low High Average 10,000 9,713 9,467 8,321 8,000 7,797 6,897 6,171 5,895 6,000 5,701 5,227 5,150 4,679 4,802 4,615 4,950 4,546 5,015 4,641 3,907 3,928 4,053 4,295 4,377 3,834 4,109 4,000 3,666 3,922 3,794 3,609 3,753 3,445 3,342 3,080 3,396 2,841 2,873 2,661 2,000 0 Aug-06 Sep-06 Oct-06 Nov-06 Dec-06 Jan-07 Feb-07 Mar-07 Apr-07 May-07 Jun-07 Jul-07 Copyright © 2001-2007 Afilias Limited Page 9 of 9 Registrar Name IANA-ID total-domains total-nameservers net-adds-1-yr net-adds-2-yr net-adds-3-yr net-adds-4-yr net-adds-5-yr net-adds-6-yr net-adds-7-yr net-adds-8-yr net-adds-9-yr net-adds-10-yr net-renews-1-yr net-renews-2-yr Domain Registration S 64 1333 37 7100200000222 Domain Monkeys LLC 459 283 3 17 00000000090 The Great Domain.ca I 68760100000000000 Parava Networks Inc. 94 2865 12 10 000000000660 Domain The Net 10007 296 3820000000014 PocketDomain.com 913 2658 18 24 0000000004150 DotForce Corp. 461 30000000000000 Rapid Choice, Inc. 1006 117 7 54 00000000001 Dynadot LLC 472 9462 259 882 800000000763 Go Italy Domains, Inc. 1152 30 0100000000000 Cheapies.com, Inc. 1039 181 59000000000120 NameKing.com Inc. 609 1496 16 000000000000 Dodora Unified Commu 410190000000000000 Primal Store Inc. 818 24 2 19 00000000000 AW Registry 58 293 7020000000052 Entorno Digital S.A. 696 87 0100000000001 12 REGISTER B.V. 839 1936 2 0 79 000000001380 Domain IT! Inc 412 308 1 35 00000000030 Allindomains, LLC 849 1418 51 26 000000000822 Funpeas Media Ventur 3631210100010000050 Tiger Technologies LLC 841582210000000010 Extremedomains.ca In 676 16 0300000000000 Cronon AG 141 82957 241 2128 5200000004311 0 Globedom Datenkomm 276 2319 30 0400000000680 HiChina Web Solutions 420 1238 2 35 42110000051 livedoor Co. Ltd. 467 403 19 510000000022 Bumper Jumper Inc. 815 90000000000000 Arsys Internet S.L. dba 379 15633 259 261 14 107000005683 Tucows Inc. 69 154816 2763 3693 804 34 1 42 0100145958 374 Active 24 ASA 247 15784 23 460 28 000000006440 Corporate Domains 299 19316 13 21 572 00100000530233 Initials Online LTD. 616 48 4400000000020 NetraCorp. LLC 893 11 0000000000002 Sipence, Inc. 639 2425 23 000000000053 1-877Namebid.com LL 66447501900000000000 PacNames Ltd. 103 491 9 15 00000000090 CORE Internet Counci 15 25178 111 304 48 002000001233 4 Innerwise 142 9117 79 45 16 1030000328012 Todaynic.com, Inc. 697 624 8 29 11010000570 Registrar Name IANA-ID total-domains total-nameservers net-adds-1-yr net-adds-2-yr net-adds-3-yr net-adds-4-yr net-adds-5-yr net-adds-6-yr net-adds-7-yr net-adds-8-yr net-adds-9-yr net-adds-10-yr net-renews-1-yr net-renews-2-yr Register.com 9 38786 483 501 135 102 0 49 0000107886108 Key-Systems GmbH 269 159843 2107 2963 168 516000014231 42 Hangang System Inc.
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