2nd Half 2009 Dashboard.ORG Domain Name Report Summary

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REGISTRARS

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Domain Under Registrations» As of 12/31/2009

Chart 1: 7.98 million domain registered

2008 2009

July 7,056,389 7,713,482

December 7,364,927 7,985,038 8.42%

Rate of Growth 4.4% 3.5%

2008 2009

7,056,389

7,713,482

7,364,927

7,985,038July December

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Domain Under Registrations» As of 12/31/2009

Chart 3: Domain under management

Months 2H 2008 2H 2009July 7,056,389 7,713,482 9.3%August 7,128,985 7,760,011 8.9%September 7,209,528 7,816,459 8.4%October 7,278,154 7,892,293 8.4%November 7,331,113 7,949,061 8.4%December 7,364,927 7,985,038 8.42%

Rate of Growth 4.4% 3.5%

July August September October November December 6,400,000

6,600,000

6,800,000

7,000,000

7,200,000

7,400,000

7,600,000

7,800,000

8,000,000

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Indexed Categories2009 2H ChartAssociations 103,000,000 16.6%Healthcare 43,700,000 7.0%Environmental 214,000,000 34.5%Arts & Culture 184,000,000 29.6%Clubs & Groups 67,100,000 10.8%Sports & Teams 191,000,000 30.8%Charity 33,600,000 5.4%Schools 68,600,000 11.1%Wiki & Open Source 141,000,000 22.7%Religious 41,700,000 6.7%

1,087,700,000

Associations9%

Healthcare4%

Environmental20%

Arts & Cul-ture17%

Clubs & Groups6%

Sports & Teams18%

Charity3%

Schools6%

Wiki & Open Source

13%

Religious4%

2H 2009

2009 1H ChartAssociations 85,300,000 13.7%Healthcare 32,400,000 5.2%Environmental 39,000,000 6.3%Arts & Culture 109,000,000 17.6%Clubs & Groups 12,500,000 2.0%Sports & Teams 92,400,000 14.9%Charity 23,900,000 3.9%Schools 59,900,000 9.7%Wiki & Open Source 137,000,000 22.1%Religious 29,300,000 4.7%

620,700,000

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Top .ORG sites on Alexa.com» Wikipedia.org - the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit

» Mozilla.org - open Sourced Software Project

» Btjunkie.org - peer to Peer file sharing

» Joomla.org - the dynamic portal engine and content management system

» Altervista.org - Italian online community

» Warez-BB.org – Bittorrent

» Thepiratebay.org - Worlds largest bittorrent tracker

» Wikimedia.org - Wikimedia is owned and operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, bringing free content to the world.

»  Archive.org - Historical collections that exist in digital format

»  Wordpress.org - A semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability

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Renewal Rates» As of 12/31/2009

1 year 2 years 3+ years Blended

Renewal Rate 60.2% 73.2% 85.6% 73.0%

1 year 2 years 3+ years Blended0.0%

10.0%

20.0%

30.0%

40.0%

50.0%

60.0%

70.0%

80.0%

90.0%

60.2%

73.2%85.6%

73.0%

Renewal Rate

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.ORG DUM vs. Other TLDs» As of 12/31/2009

.biz .com .info .mobi .net .org

-2.00%

0.00%

2.00%

4.00%

6.00%

8.00%

10.00%

12.00%

-1.70%

3.60%

5.30%

11.20%

2.70%

3.50%

2H 2009

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.ORG New Creates vs. Other TLDs» As of 12/31/2009

.biz .com .info .mobi .net .org0.0%

5.0%

10.0%

15.0%

20.0%

25.0%

30.0%

35.0%

12.6%

15.4%

30.1% 29.6%

15.2%14.1%

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Top 10 Market by Country » As of 12/31/2009

71%

5%

4%

4% 4%

4%3%2% 2% 2%

United States United Kingdom Germany Canada France

China Netherlands Turkey India Spain

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Thought Leadership: Abuse

» According to the Anti-phishing Working Group (APWG).

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Thought Leadership: Abuse

» Domain Name Anti-Abuse Policy in 2009, PIR began actively reporting suspected phish to its registrars, helping them to alert their registrants about compromised phishing domains.

» The impact of this initiative was dramatic: .ORG’s “phishing uptimes immediately dropped by a third,” according to the Anti-phishing Working Group (APWG).

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Thought Leadership: DNSSEC

» .We planning the final step to realizing full DNSSEC deployment in the .ORG registry: the launch of signed delegations.

» The 90-day notification was just sent out by our Technical Support Team to alert Registrars that we are committed to the schedule of launching signed delegations by the end of June 2010.

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Thought Leadership: DNSSEC Timeline

» June 2010June 2008

Formed the DNSSEC Coalition

Our DNSSEC efforts started in when the board of ICANN approved PIR to implement DNSSEC.

Aug 2008

Launched Friends &Family Program10 Registrars &35 signed test domains

Oct 2008

June 2009

Today

A DNSSEC OT&E environment will be available no sooner than 10 April 2010 and at least 30 days in advance of the actual signed delegation launch date.

A DNSSEC OT&E environment will be available no sooner than 10 April 2010 and at least 30 days in advance of the actual signed delegation launch date.

PIR became the largest domain registry to successfully sign the .ORG zone file with DNSSEC.

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» Registrar resources for DNSSEC – Webinar Series DNSSEC What a Registrar Needs to

Know– Registrar Crib Sheet (Operational Considerations)

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