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REGISTRY OPERATOR’S REPORT March 2006 Public Interest Registry 1775 Wiehle Avenue, Suite 102A Reston, VA 20190 www.pir.org Public Interest Registry Monthly Report – March 2006 As required by the ICANN/ PIR Registry Agreement (Section 3.15.1) this report provides an overview of PIR 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 T of the Registry Agreement. Report Index Section 1 Accredited Registrar Status Section 2 Service Level Agreement Performance Section 3 ORG Zone File Access Activity Section 4 Completed SRS/System Software Releases Section 5 Domain Names Under Sponsorship - Per Registrar Section 6 Nameservers Under Management Per Registrar Section 7 Domain Names Registered by PIR Section 8 WhoIs Service Activity Section 9 Monthly Growth Trends Section 10 Total Number of Transactions by Subcategory by Month Section 11 Total Number of Failed Transactions by Subcategory by Month Section 12 Daily Transaction Range Section 13 ORG Geographical Registrations Distribution Section 14 ORG Deleted Names Section 15 ORG Restored Names Section 16 ORG Violations of Registrar Restore Report Copyright © 2004-2006 Public Interest Registry Page 2 of 40 Public Interest Registry Monthly Report – March 2006 Section 1 – Accredited Registrar Status Table 1 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 system for processing domain name registrations. 2. Registrars in the Ramp-up Period: Those who have received a password to the PIR Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E) environment. The OT&E environment is provided to allow registrars to develop and test their systems with the PIR Shared Registration System (SRS). 3. Registrars in the Pre-Ramp-up Period: Those who have been sent a welcome letter from PIR, but have not yet executed the Registry Confidentiality Agreement and/or have not yet submitted a completed Registrar Information Sheet. March 2006 No. of Status Registrars Operational Registrars 201 Registrars In Ramp-Up Period 64 Registrars in Pre-Ramp-Up Period 168 Total 433 Copyright © 2004-2006 Public Interest Registry Page 3 of 40 Public Interest Registry Monthly Report – March 2006 Section 2 – Service Level Agreement Performance Table 2 compares the SLA requirements with Actual Performance for the reporting month. As required by the ICANN/PIR Registry Agreement, PIR is committed to provide service levels as outlined in Appendix D of the agreement and to comply with the requirements of the SLA Appendix E of the agreement. The SLA is incorporated into the PIR Registry Registrar Agreement that is executed with all operational registrars. Component/Service Availability Performance Required Actual Required Actual DNS Unplanned 300 minutes None 100%< 15 AXFR/IXFR Updates < 15 minutes minutes Planned 600 minutes None Resolution of .org Unplanned 30 minutes None < 300 58 milliseconds domains, each name- milliseconds (Avg.) server Planned 120 minutes None WHOIS Unplanned 90 minutes None < 800 27 milliseconds Singular query/response milliseconds (Avg.) Planned 240 minutes None BILLING Unplanned 90 minutes None Account balance < 800 40 milliseconds check/modify milliseconds (Avg.) Planned 240 minutes None ADMIN Unplanned 300 minutes None No Update Registrar profile No requirement requirement Planned 600 minutes None Unplanned 300 minutes None No Update Registrar status No requirement requirement Planned 600 minutes None PROTOCOL INTERFACE Unplanned 30 minutes None < 800 128 milliseconds Write Operations milliseconds (Avg.) Planned 120 minutes None Unplanned 90 minutes None < 1600 43 milliseconds Transfer milliseconds (Avg.) Planned 240 minutes None Unplanned 30 minutes None < 400 20 milliseconds Query Operations milliseconds (Avg.) Planned 120 minutes None Copyright © 2004-2006 Public Interest Registry Page 4 of 40 Public Interest Registry Monthly Report – March 2006 Section 3 – ORG Zone File Access Activity Table 3 summarizes the zone file access activity for the current reporting month. As required by the ICANN/PIR Registry Agreement, PIR provides third parties bulk access to the zone file for the .ORG TLD. Zone file access passwords at the end of the previous month Feb-06 408 New zone file access passwords 21 Total zone file access approvals at the end of the reporting month Mar-06 429 Copyright © 2004-2006 Public Interest Registry Page 5 of 40 Public Interest Registry Monthly Report – March 2006 Section 4 – Completed SRS/System Software Releases As required by the ICANN/ PIR Registry Agreement, Table 4 shows significant releases that have occurred since January, 2003 (it excludes software released only to fix a bug). The PIR SRS is continually being improved to better meet the needs of accredited registrars. Target Complete Release Name Features Date Date 2003-026-1316 Initial release 2003-01-26 Improved connection management capability of web server 2003-027-1530 2003-01-27 2003-01-27 and bug fixes. 2003-028-1233 Performance optimization and bug fixes 2003-01-28 2003-01-28 2003-036-1622 Bug fixes 2003-02-05 2003-02-05 Enhanced reports and connection management capability of 2003-038-1420 2003-02-07 2003-02-07 whois server Added more transfer notifications for the gaining registrar and 2003-059-1147 2003-02-28 2003-02-28 bug fixes (None in March) 2003-094-1435 Enhanced some SRS components, reports and bug fixes 2003-04-09 2003-04-09 (None in May) (None in June) Improved Billing System, RGP Implementation, Add Storm 2003-175-1543 2003-07-02 2003-07-02 Prevention, Performance Optimization and Minor Bug Fixes. 2003-190-1624 Bug fixes 2003-07-11 2003-07-11 (None in August) (None in September) (None in October) 2003-329-1011 Enhancements made to SRS and Whois components. 2003-11-29 2003-11-29 (None in December) Legacy IDN names may be transferred, db connection pool 2004-023-1159 2004-01-27 2004-01-27 has been revised 2004-027-2326 Whois server bug fix 2004-01-28 2004-01-28 (None in February) (None in March) 2004-090-1201 Bug fix 2004-04-10 2004-04-10 2004-096-1655 Recompiled the SRS components with pg74 postgresql.jar 2004-04-24 2004-04-24 (None in May) (None in June) Copyright © 2004-2006 Public Interest Registry Page 6 of 40 Public Interest Registry Monthly Report – March 2006 Section 4 – Completed SRS/System Software Releases (Concluded) Target Complete Release Name Features Date Date RGP Phase II Implementation, separate email address for transfer notifications, customized login ID to the registry 2004-161-2100 2004-07-17 2004-07-17 system, updated the “domain info” command and minor bug fixes. (None in August 04) Enhanced Whois output to display Registrar Name, ID, IANA 2004-258-1445 GUID. ClientRenewProhibited will prevent auto-renewals in 2004-09-18 2004-09-18 the SRS. Registrars to get daily balance email Changes made to enhanced connection handling in the web 2004-268-1338 2004-09-25 2004-09-25 admin tool. (None in October 04) 2004-307-1909-1.2 Implementation of Automated Transfer Dispute Policy 2004-11-13 2004-11-13 Fixed notification email for Transfer Dispute. Balance 2004-348-1744-1.2 2004-12-23 2004-12-23 notifications are now being sent to cc defined. Support for German IDNs, RFC Compliance, support for ‘thin’ 2005-013-2354-1.2 2005-01-15 2005-01-15 data in EPP DomainInfo, additional reporting. (None in February 05) (None in March 05) 2005-090-1890-1.2 Debugging code added for ineligible domain renewals 2005-04-01 2005-04-01 (None in May 05) (None in June 05) 2005-186-2020-1.2 Support for 8 new IDN language tags (Phase 2) 2005-07-23 2005-07-23 Fix for a problem in the transfer logic introduced in IDN 2005-206-1833-1.2 2005-08-10 2005-08-10 promotion 2005-228-1419-1.2 Whois rate-limiting 2005-08-20 2005-08-20 Fix for affecting reload names and help options on whois 2005-250-1616-1.2 command server and also HACMP application failover policy 2005-09-22 2005-09-22 bug fix. (None in October 05) (None in November 05) Last_Updated_On field behavior upgrade, update behavior for contact update, Update reason for IDN exceptions, 2005-339-2108-1.2 2005-12-10 2005-12-10 Nameserver association upgrade,IDN hostname exception upgrade, server certificate upgrade (None in January 06) (None in February 06) 2006-076-1624-1.2 ORG PPC Automation/Rate Limiting Implementation 2006-03-25 2006-03-25 2006-086-2048-1.2 ORG PPC Automation/Rate Limiting Implementation Fix 2006-03-28 2006-03-28 Copyright © 2004-2006 Public Interest Registry Page 7 of 40 Public Interest Registry Monthly Report – March 2006 Section 5 and 6 – Domain Names and Nameservers Under Sponsorship – Per Registrar In accordance with Sections 5 & 6 of Appendix T to the ICANN/PIR Registry Agreement, the following table reports the number of domain names and name servers under sponsorship by each live ICANN Accredited Registrar in the .ORG TLD: Total Total Registrar Registrar Name Domain Name ID Names Servers 5079-OD #1 Domain Names International, Inc. dba 1dni.com 482 0 5253-CM @Com Technology, LLC 1,477 64 5129-RK 000Domains, LLC 9,687 485 5001-7N 007 Names, Inc 1,030 5 6171-YS 12 Register BV 328 0 5157-OR 123 Registration, Inc. 354 7 6133-NB 1-877namebid.com LLC 131 2 5063-OE 1eNameCo 1,462 60 5005-OD 1stDomain.Net 839 72 5145-AT A Technology Company, Inc 323 24 5011-AQ AAAQ.com Inc. 19,865 658 5013-AA Abacus America Inc dba Names4Ever 29,363 358 5235-NN ABR Products Inc.