REGISTRY OPERATOR’S REPORT August 2008 Public Interest Registry 1775 Wiehle Avenue, Suite 102A Reston, VA 20190 www.pir.org Public Interest Registry Monthly Report – August 2008 As required by the ICANN/ PIR Registry Agreement (Section 3.1(c)(iv)) 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 4 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 WhoIs Service Activity Section 6 Total Number of Transactions by Subcategory by Month Section 7 Daily Transaction Range Copyright © 2004-2008 Public Interest Registry Page 2 of 9 Public Interest Registry Monthly Report – August 2008 Section 1 – Accredited Registrar Status 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 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. August 2008 No. of Status Registrars Operational Registrars 311 Registrars In Ramp-Up Period 161 Registrars in Pre-Ramp-Up Period 331 Total 803 Copyright © 2004-2008 Public Interest Registry Page 3 of 9 Public Interest Registry Monthly Report – August 2008 Section 2 – Service Level Agreement Performance The following table 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 7 of the agreement and to comply with the requirements of the SLA Appendix 10 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% < 5 AXFR/IXFR Updates < 5 minutes minutes Planned 480 minutes * None Resolution of .org Unplanned 20 seconds None < 300 22 milliseconds domains, each name- milliseconds (Avg.) server Planned 480 minutes * None WHOIS Unplanned 240 minutes None < 800 8 milliseconds Singular query/response milliseconds (Avg.) Planned 480 minutes * 194 minutes BILLING Unplanned 240 minutes None Account balance No No requirement check/modify requirement Planned 480 minutes * 194 minutes Unplanned 300 minutes None No Manual balance adjust No requirement requirement Planned 480 minutes * 194 minutes ADMIN Unplanned 300 minutes None No Update Registrar profile No requirement requirement Planned 480 minutes * 194 minutes Unplanned 300 minutes None No Update Registrar status No requirement requirement Planned 480 minutes * 194 minutes PROTOCOL INTERFACE Unplanned 240 minutes None < 800 36 milliseconds Write Operations milliseconds (Avg.) Planned 480 minutes * 194 minutes Unplanned 240 minutes None < 1600 10 milliseconds Transfer milliseconds (Avg.) Planned 480 minutes * 194 minutes Unplanned 240 minutes None < 400 5 milliseconds Query Operations milliseconds (Avg.) Planned 480 minutes * 194 minutes *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 © 2004-2008 Public Interest Registry Page 4 of 9 Public Interest Registry Monthly Report – August 2008 Section 3 – ORG Zone File Access Activity The following table 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 Jul-08 619 New zone file access passwords 6 Total zone file access approvals at the end of the reporting month Aug-08 625 Copyright © 2004-2008 Public Interest Registry Page 5 of 9 Public Interest Registry Monthly Report – August 2008 Section 4 – Completed SRS/System Software Releases As required by the ICANN/ PIR Registry Agreement, The following table shows significant releases that have occurred during the month (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 2008-200-0458 IPv6 and password encryption 2008-08-30 2008-08-30 Copyright © 2004-2008 Public Interest Registry Page 6 of 9 Public Interest Registry Monthly Report – August 2008 Section 5 – Whois Service Activity The total monthly “Whois” queries are shown below (In Thousands) Month Total Peak Average Aug-08 74,110.9 4,450.4 2,390.7 Copyright © 2004-2008 Public Interest Registry Page 7 of 9 Public Interest Registry Monthly Report – August 2008 Section 6 – Total Number of Transactions by Subcategory by Month In compliance with Section 6 of Appendix 4 to the ICANN/PIR 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 Month Total Add RGP Failures Modify Renew Transfer Check Restore Period Aug-08 80,535.1 505.2 14.0 105.7 8.0 2,883.5 398.8 206.8 76,412.1 1.0 6b – Total Monthly Domain Name Transaction Failures by Subcategory (In Thousands) Month Total Add Delete Modify Renew Transfer Check Restore Aug-08 706.1 313.7 8.0 151.7 20.2 177.7 34.8 0.0 6c – Total Monthly Nameserver Transactions by Subcategory (In Thousands) Month Total Add Delete Modify Renew Transfer Check Restore Not Not Not Aug-08 3,021.0 33.2 12.0 11.3 Applicable Applicable 2,964.5 Applicable 6d – Total Monthly Nameserver Transaction Failures by Subcategory (In Thousands) Month Total Add Delete Modify Renew Transfer Check Restore Not Not Not Aug-08 15.6 10.0 5.1 0.5 Applicable Applicable 0.0 Applicable 6e – Total Monthly Contact Information Transactions by Subcategory (In Thousands) Month Total Add Delete Modify Renew Transfer Check Restore Not Not Aug-08 5,373.9 1,626.8 19.8 3,191.4 Applicable 0.0 535.9 Applicable 6f – Total Monthly Contact Information Transaction Failures by Subcategory (In Thousands) Month Total Add Delete Modify Renew Transfer Check Restore Not Not Aug-08 97.7 79.8 1.5 16.3 Applicable 0.0 0.1 Applicable Copyright © 2004-2008 Public Interest Registry Page 8 of 9 Public Interest Registry Monthly Report – August 2008 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) 9000 8000 7000 6000 5000 4000 3000 2000 1000 0 Sep-07 Oct-07 Nov-07 Dec-07 Jan-08 Feb-08 Mar-08 Apr-08 May-08 Jun-08 Jul-08 Aug-08 Low High Average Copyright © 2004-2008 Public Interest Registry Page 9 of 9 ORG ‐ ICANN Transactional Data Monthly Report for 2008‐08‐01 to 2008‐08‐31 yr yr yr yr yr ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ yr 4 5 1 2 3 ‐ yr yr yr yr yr yr yr yr yr ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ID domains nameservers ‐ ‐ ‐ renews renews adds adds adds adds adds adds adds adds adds adds renews renews renews ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ IANA net total total net net net net net net net net net net net net net Registrar Name net Korea Information Certifi 4497932945200000000120100 Domain Registration Serv 64 2,440 180 1 14 000000004731005 Xin Net Technology Corpo 120 23,076 199 719 12 11 0 13 00000611321185 Register.com Inc. 9 200,468 5,297 2,171 262 501 1 179 01151664,793 683 251 56 191 Baronofdomains.com LLC 1161 247 0 19 00000000000000 Compuglobalhypermega. 1170 231 0 16 00000000010000 Gabia Inc. 244 6,272 842 80 38 8110000115345823 Enet Registry, Inc. 608 18 1000000000010000 HyperStreet.com, Inc. 817 285 0210000000090000 DomainMarketPlace.ca In 6911280900000000030000 R Lee Chambers Co. LLC475762000000000040000 Interdominios, Inc. 818 103 13 0000000000212001 Nordreg AB 63830710200000000030000 DomainInfo AB 73 4,281 120 0 52 0000000032714129 PrimeDomain.ca Inc. 688 96 0 11 00000000010000 NameSecure, L.L.C. 30 27,184 20133831140250000477568281346 Address Creation, LLC270653404000000000172000 azprivatez, LLC 1392 12 0000000000000000 Omnis Network LLC 143 9,207 261 164 13 51400004302361511 http.net Internet GmbH 976 3,130 37 41 000000000290000 ASCIO Technologies, Inc. 106 35,230 148 601 45 000000001,578 25 0 1 1 Nordnet 68 7,735 75 32 10210000054400011 Universal Registration Se 44818580000000000151000 Net‐Chinese Co. Ltd. 1336 222 55 710020000081100 DotArai Co., Ltd. 1373 27 7 11 20000000010000 EstDomains, Inc. 832 23,734 6,601 1,114 30030000048210201 Brandon Gray Internet Se 636 12,128 188 33 80 4 0 25 0000115242154817 OVH SARL 433 54,852 1,509 1,542 0000000002,053 77 44 5 1 Abacus America Inc dba N 52 32,566 421 501 54 3 1 24 000061,583 119 12 9 5 Moniker Online Services 228 121,241 1,123 2,700 11 632000005,653 32 3 2 4 Interdomain S.A. 140 7,335 43 19 0000000001660010 Register.IT SPA 168 19,127 189 295 164 060100068481500 ResellerSRS Inc dba http:/ 66950000000000000000 CORE Internet Council of 15 27,519 362 207 50 101000011,463 14 2 3 3 Webair Internet Develop 1326 67 0310000000020000 IP Mirror Pte Ltd dba IP M 890746178000200000171002 007 Names, Inc 91 1,342 22 49 010000000527002 Catalog.com, Inc 112 3,846 15 53 70020000020810002 livedoor Co., Ltd.