XYZ and Radix propel CentralNic’s registry growth.
CentralNic now has over 4 million domain names on its new top level domain registry services platform, the company announced today.
It provides registry services to .xyz, which accounts for about three-quarters of the total. Its other major client (volume-wise) is Radix. Radix runs a handful of top level domains that are on the new TLD leaderboards, including .site, .online, .website and .space.
According to nTLDStats, CentralNic is the largest backend registry services provider in terms of domain names. ZDNS, which has .top and .wange, is nipping at its heels. (Of course, ZDNS could just “move a couple levers” to be in first place, if it wants to be.)
Backend registry services are one CentralNic’s (AIM: CNIC) three major businesses. Listen to CEO Ben Crawford discuss the business on DNW Podcast #79.
Adam says
This is why they are shutting down pseudo domain extensions.
http://www.internetnews.me/2016/04/29/centralnic-sunsetting-several-sld-extensions/
They want to be viewed as a real back end registry provider going forward. No wannabes.
You cannot trust centralnic says
Scandalous company affecting thousands of registrants there needs to be an investigation
Hi,
CentralNic advises that from April 30, 2017 the following SLD domain extensions will be sunsetted, meaning that new registrations and renewals will not be permitted.
.AR.COM, .GB.COM, .HU.COM, .KR.COM, .QC.COM, .NO.COM, .SE.COM, AND .UY.COM
There are no plans to sunset any other domains managed by CentralNic.
Although there are only a very small number of domains (and an even smaller number of active websites) using these extensions, we realise the inconvenience this causes you and your clients, and so we will do everything in our power to make this a smooth process. We have put in place the following timetable, compensation and support plan:
1. Timetable
All domains using the sunsetting extensions will now show as ‘unavailable’ for new registrations. This is to ensure no further domains can be registered, as they will not be able to be renewed.
All domains currently registered using the sunsetting extensions will have their expiry date extended to April 30, 2017 at no charge, giving your customers a year to migrate to alternative domains. This means there will be no further renewals processed for the affected domains.
On April 30, 2017, any remaining domains on those extensions will be deactivated.
2. Compensation
For every domain affected, we will provide you with a free two year registration on a substitute extension, which can be any domain of your customer’s choice using any extension from the list provided.
For any multi-year registration (extending past April 30, 2017), we will provide you with an additional two years of registration free for each additional year currently registered
Your registrants can choose any available domain at any of the following extensions:
.ae.org, .com.de, .com.se, .gb.net, .hu.net, .jp.net, .jpn.com, .mex.com, .sa.com, .se.net, .uk.com, .uk.net, us.com, us.org, za.com
Although they have nothing to do with the sunsetting domains, the helpful people at .xyz and .co.com have also offered to assist by contributing an additional option: a free two year registration of any available .xyz or .co.com domain as a substitute for sunsetted domains.
For registrars not accredited for .xyz CentralNic can arrange this for you to obtain these domains via Instra or InternetBS.
How the compensation works:
To make things as easy as possible, we will simply credit you with two years of registration for every domain year you currently have registered under the sunsetting domains.
We will take the total number of domain years you have registered on these extensions, and will credit the first same amount of two-year registrations on the substitute extensions. This credit is automated – we do not require any reporting from you, and there are no restrictions on how you use these credits. You may start offering the substitute domains immediately if you wish, until April 30, 2017.
If you would prefer to use .xyz or .co.com credits or have any other special request, please do not hesitate to contact us.
3. Support
We will not contact your registrants – however let us know if you would like our support in communicating with any of your customers, including explaining the sunsetting, assisting in obtaining a domain comparable to the one they have now, or for us to put in place a free (301) redirect to their new domain. We can also offer support in any language required.
Meanwhile, to assist you with your own registrant communications on this matter, we have attached a spreadsheet which lists all domains affected, with for each one:
registrant name
admin email
date of expiry
status: in use or not in use
You will note that the vast majority of registrations under these extensions are unused or redirected and only a small number of websites are affected.
Please note: this report is not exact at this time, as it may include recently expired domains that have not renewed. We will be available to provide you further reports on affected domains in future if you require them.
CentralNic apologises for the inconvenience caused by these exceptional circumstances. We invite you and your customer to contact us should you have any queries.
Regards,
CentralNic
+44 (0) 203 515 0085
SLDqueries@centralnic.com
alain methot says
I am one of the FEW with a company website, I will have to change all my stuff: business cards, t-shirts, paperblocks even my car as it has the website painted on each side, who will pay for that!!!
Roger Carr says
Amen to that!
It’s even worse when your service provider only tells you this is happening in Jan 2017 – giving you only two and a half months to make the switch!