2009 Domain Name Wire Survey Results
Friday, February 20th, 2009
A look at some of the results from the 2009 Domain Name Wire survey.
Today during lunch at Domainer Mardi Gras I presented some of the results from the 4th annual Domain Name Wire Survey. The results I shared were mostly related to risk management and security (the focus of the conference). More results will be released on Domain Name Wire in coming weeks.
You can view the presentation here (pdf).
To summarize:
Registrars: the most important things people consider when choosing a registrar are 1) security and 2) price.
Domain parking: although 45% of people thought a year ago their domain parking earnings would go up in 2008, only 16% of people actually reported higher results. 45% of people reported their earnings declined.
Domain sales values: About a third of people think domain values will go up in 2009, with similar percentages think they’ll stay the same or go down.
ICANN Satisfaction: The percentage of people that say ICANN is doing a good job has decreased from about 33% in 2006 to less than 15% in 2009.
New TLDs: Only 20% of people surveyed are in favor with ICANN going forward with its current plan to introduce new TLDs.
Top news story of 2008: Domain parking turmoil
Biggest issue for 2009: Overall economy
Read full details here.
Further Reading:
- Domain Name Wire Survey Results
- 2009 Domain Name Wire Survey Preview and Winners
- 2008 Domain Name Wire Survey Results
Tags: domain name survey
pdf link is broken
Thanks for the post. The question I have for you is were you really surprised? Look at the forums and auctions lately and do you really think revenue will go up?
Buy and hold if you can for the next 5 years or so.
pdf link broken for me too.
pdf link fixed, sorry
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I am surprised to see the numbers of people that think domain name prices with go up. I agree with Ross. From the slow auction in L.A., I think we will see a slow 2009.
I all so agree with Ross. Yes I think that it is slowing down.
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Interesting but waiting for more results
Nice to see that security is the most important domain registrar feature for domainers.
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godaddy.com is the best I dont have to worry about when checking at godaddy if a domain name is available. Where other domain registers often registered it before you leave when you do a check.
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