[gnso-pednr-dt] Post expiration renewal stats

[Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

As a follow-on to James' numbers, it would be useful to see the 
patterns from other registrars. Due to different customer bases and 
pre-expiration notifications, they could be substantially different.
What would be most useful would be:

- percentage of expiring gTLD domains that are renewed prior to expiration
- percentage that are renewed on each of day 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
- percentage that are renewed during days 11-15, 16-20, 21-25 and 26-30.
- indication of which day the domain is re-directed to the parking site.

I (and potentially one or two other WG members would be prepared to 
sign non-disclosure agreements if you do not want to make the 
information public. I would presume that Marika could also be copied 
on any such data.
Can any other registrars help?

Alan

At 08/12/2010 12:02 AM, you wrote:
> Team:
>
> Sorry I cannot join you tomorrow morning, but I have a previous 
> commitment to the DNSSEC event.
> After some discussions this weekend, I spoke with our internal stats 
> team and requested six months' data on renewal activity for 
> gTLDs.  Renewals were bucket-sorted by post-expiry time (<0 days, 1 
> day, 2-10 days, 11-30 days, and 30+ days).  The percentages are listed below.
>
> (NOTE:  I am not authorized to release raw numbers, but the average 
> monthly renewals for this period was more than 2.5 million domain names.)
>
>
>
> This data indicates that a significant portion of names renew either 
> before, upon, or within 1 day of expiration.  Also noteworthy is the 
> significant drop off in renewal activity after Day 2.  Finally, it 
> is clear that renewals are rare beyond the 10th day.
> In an earlier conversation, some of us (myself included) speculated 
> that we might be "chasing the tail" of renewal activity for periods 
> longer than 5 or 10 days.  But even I was surprised at the 
> substantial lack of renewal activity only a few days past expiration.
> Therefore, I submit to the team that the benefits of a longer grace 
> period (>10 days) are negligible, and do not warrant the disruption 
> to existing business practices and industry expectations.
> Thanks--
>
> J.