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.pl domainname marketNASK’s report forthe second quarter of 2019

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Table of Contents

Introduction

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Facts and figures

New domain names in .pl registry

.pl domain names active in DNS

Additional services of .pl domain registry

Registrars of .pl domain namesDomain names in .pl domain registry Transfers Renewal of a domain name for a consecutive billing period

DNSSECIDN Options

NASK Partner Programme

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Registrants of .pl domain names

Registrants in the .pl domain registry Place of residence of .pl domain name registrants

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Jacek LeśkowDirector of NASK PIB

Introduction

Dear Readers,

The .pl domain registry closed the second quarter of 2019 with the number of 2 602 326 names active in DNS. As compared to the first quarter of 2019 the number of registrants increased by 1 492, amounting, at the end of June, to 1 085 029. The renewal rate also grew attaining the value of 65.94%.

In the second quarter there commenced first activations of the registry’s new service - .pl Registry Lock. That solution provides a top level domain security. Within promotional activities of the service, carried out by NASK for registrants, there were prepared a leaflet and animation explaining the purpose of the service, as viewed from the perspective of cybersecurity, and in particular existing threats pertaining to domain names. Furthermore, NASK, participating in the IT conference for the banking sector, presented many typical cases of domain hijacking as well as explained the meaning and concept of the .pl Registry Lock service in the field of raising the security level of domain names. In this report you will also find an article presenting selected information on the application the Registry Lock service.

NASK, as usual, co-organized the Seminar of the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications which was held on 5 June 2019 in Toruń. During this sixth edition of the seminar there were raised the issues of cybersquatting and typosquatting, security incidents as well as legal protection of a domain name as a trademark.

I wish you pleasant reading.

NASK’s report for the second quarter of 2019

Facts and figures

196 thousand 490 thousand2.6 million Over Almost Over

new names names secured with DNSSEC

active .pl domain names

217NASK Partners

35.7 thousand transfers

65.94% renewal rate

1.08 million 64.66% 35.34%Over

registrants of registrants constitute

organizations

of registrants constitute natural

persons

2.1 thousand names registered

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Number of .pl domain names in DNS

Number of domain names active in DNS as divided into the type of zone,

Q2 2019

second level domain namesfunctionalregional

Domains in .pl domain registry

The .pl domain registry ended the first half of 2019 with 2 602 326 domain names active in DNS. During the second quarter of 2019 the number of names decreased by 8 461. The registry’s annual growth dynamics of domain names amounted to 1.27%.

Registration year of .pl domain names active in DNS

201920182015-2017

2010-2014

1994-2009

17.40%22.57%22.19%21.90%15.94%

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2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Q2

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Number of .pl domain name transfers

Transfers

Within the period from 1 April to 30 June 2019 the registrants of the .pl domain registry 35 752 times changed a registrar servicing .pl domain names maintained for them.

During the discussed period in 1 747 cases the transfers were executed with a simultaneous renewal of a domain name for a consecutive billing period, with 562 of them being effected after the previous billing period had been completed.


Division of transfers, Q2 2019

active domain namesactive domain names with renewaldomain names in Blocked state

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3.31%

95.11%

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Renewal rate of .pl domain names

Structure of renewed .pl domain names,

Q2 2019


Renewal of a domain name for a consecutive billing period

At the end of the first half of 2019 the renewal rate of .pl domain names equalled 65.94%. It has maintained a growing tendency for a consecutive, tenth in a row, quarter.

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70%

65%

60%Q1

2016Q2

2016Q3

2016Q4

2016Q1

2017Q2

2017Q3

2017Q4

2017Q1

2018Q2

2018Q3

2018Q4

2018Q1

2019Q22019

17.80%

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388 thousand 1 726.pl domain names renewed from the beginning of April to the end of June 2019

names the end date of a billing period was shifted by an individually defined number of days

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Number of .pl domain name registrations

Number of .pl domain name registrations, daily average, Q2 2019

.pl domain name registrations as divided into a type of zone,

Q2 2019

During the second quarter of 2019 196 360 .pl domain names were registered, that was by 62 thousand fewer than in the previous quarter. A daily average number of registrations amounted to 2 158 .pl domain names. The registration share of the second level domain names, i.e. directly in the .pl domain, in the total number of registrations amounted to 74.95%. Registrations of functional domains, as compared to the preceding quarter, dropped by 3.97% and amounted to 18.74%. The remaining 6.31% denoted regional domains.

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New domain names in .pl registry

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2 158 daily average number of registrations

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Division of Registrants of .pl domain names, Q2 2019

Division of .pl domain names for Registrants, Q2 2019

Division of .pl domain names for registrants, Q2 2019

OrganizationsNatural persons



Registrants in the .pl domain registry

At the end of the first half of 2019, in the .pl domain registry, there were 1 085 029 entries of unique registrants. It is by 1 492 registrants more than in the first quarter of 2019.

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35.34%

64.66%

32.98%

67.02%

38.04%

61.96%

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Number of changes of .pl domain name registrants, Q2 2019

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May2019

June2019

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0In the second quarter of 2019 there were 23 664 changes of .pl domain names registrants.

2.40 .pl domain names fell for one registrant on average


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Division of .pl domain names active in DNS for registrant’s country, Q2 2019

Division of .pl domain name registrations for a registrant’s country, Q2 2019

Germany 1.63%

GreatBritain 0.70%

USA 0.63%

Netherlands 0.44%

Seychelles 0.42%

France 0.34%

Cyprus 0.30%

Czech Republic 0.31%

China 0.21%Sweden 0.18%

Other 1.75%countries

Cyprus 5.71%

Great Britain 0.70%Seychelles 0.58%

Germany 1.56%

Netherlands 0.52%

Other 2.63%countries

Place of residence of .pl domain name registrants


Poland

others

Poland

others

6.91%

93.09%

11.70%

88.30%

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Number of the .pl domain names secured with DNSSEC

DNSSEC

At the end of June 2019 in the .pl domain registry, there were 489 945 names secured with the DNSSEC protocol. In the second quarter the number of secured .pl domain names decreased by 11 842.

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28.63%

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67.02%of secured names were registered

directly in the .pl domain

directly in the .pl domainin the functional domainsin the regional domains

500 000

505 000

485 000

480 000

490 000

495 000

Q12018

Q22018

Q32018

Q42018

Q12019

Q22019


Number of .pl IDN domain names active in DNS

IDN

The .pl domain registry, at the end of the second quarter of 2019, contained 35 100 names with national diacritic signs (IDN) – by 550 fewer than in the previous quarter. During that period 2 807 IDNs were registered, i.e. 1.35% of all active .pl domain names.

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2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 20182019Q2

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Number of .pl IDN registrations

500 000

600 000

100 000

200 000

300 000

400 000

0Q3

2017Q4

2017Q1

2018Q2

2018Q3

2018Q4

2018Q1

2019Q22019


Number of WLS registrations

Options

Within the period from April to June 2019 1 882 agreements on options for the registration of .pl domain names were concluded, with 1 493 options (79.3%) thereof being exercised.

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4 000

3 000

2 000

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2017Q2

2017Q3

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2004

options were exercised

100 947

Since launching the service in 2004

to the end of the second quarter of 2019


Partners of NASK, division by place of residence, Q2 2019

.pl domain name market share between Partners considering the place of residence, Q2 2019

NASK Partner Programme

The .pl domain registry, at the end of June 2019, was cooperating within the frames of the Partner Programme with 217 registrars from 24 countries. 133 registrars had their registered offices in Poland and were servicing in total 61.29% of .pl domain names, 56 registrars, seated in other European countries, were servicing 25.81% of .pl domain names, while 28 registrars, domiciled beyond Europe, were servicing 12.90% of .pl domain names.

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Registrars of .pl domain names

217Partners

24countries

25.81%

61.29%

12.90%

16.18%

73.30%

10.52%

PolandEuroperemaining countries

PolandEuroperemaining countries

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Registry Lock – response to an increasing threat of domain name hijacking

The issue of domain name hijacking, although present in the cyberspace for ages, now is assuming ever greater proportions.

In recent years more than 4 thousand domain names, owned by over 600 organizations, have been hijacked. Among the victims of domain hijacking were, among others, Mastercard, ING Bank, McDonald’s, Amazon, Hilton, BBC, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lenovo or Google Vietnam. Different scenarios of domain hijacking were first and foremost used to spread spam or discredit victims of a cyberattack. However, a particularly spectacular case, by account of the size of the attack, was hijacking all of 36 domain names owned by one of the biggest banks in Brazil. Seizing network operational activity of the bank allowed the attackers to capture, among others, ATM and POS transactions.

Domain hijacking takes place when the attacker gains an unauthorized access to domain’s registration data, thus taking administrative control over a domain name which, in turn, allows them to modify its elements, including a website or e-mail built in that domain name. The access may be granted through, among others, reckless sharing the credentials to the registrar client panel amongst the employees in the organization or subcontractors, e.g. web designers, SEO

companies. Seizure of credentials may also occur as a result of sociotechnical activities of hackers and through phishing of data.

The .pl domain registry offered the implementation of the .pl Registry Lock service at the end of March 2019 while already in June the Partners of the .pl domain registry, Agnat (domena.pl) and H88 (domeny.pl) performed first implementations of the service and secured domain names in the .pl zone.

In Europe the Registry Lock service, also referred to as Security Lock, is provided by, among others, country-code top level domain registries in France, Sweden, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia and the registry of the European domain, EURid, as well as VeriSign, a registry services provider of generic top level domains .com and .net.

Compiled by Tomasz Szladowski, basing on the CENTR materials, PCWorld (Jeremy Kirk), KrebsonSecurity (Brian Krebs), ArsTechnika (Dan Goodin) and information provided at the websites of domain registries.

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Text:Anna Gniadek, Weronika Rakowska, Tomasz Szladowski, Alina Wiśniewska-Skura

Compilation of data gathered from the .pl domain name registry system:Izabela Domagała

Translation:Piotr Studziński-Raczyński

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