Please find below the latest installment of the GovLab Index on Internet Governance, inspired by the Harper’s Index. “Internet Governance — Code” is part of a series of Indexes that focus on the five main areas within Internet Governance: access, content, code, trust, and trade. This edition focuses on the IPv4 to IPv6 transition and the introduction of new generic top level domains (gTLDs). Previous installments include Internet Governance — Content and Internet Governance — Access.

IPv4 to IPv6 Transition

• How many bits are in an IPv4 address: 32 bits
• Number of Internet addresses possible with IPv4: 4.3 billion
• How many bits are in an IPv6 address: 128 bits
• Number of Internet addresses possible with IPv6: 340 undecillion (3.4 × 1038) addresses
• Year in which the Internet Society first organized World IPv6 Day, a coordinated 24-hour “test flight” that helped demonstrate major websites around the world are well positioned for the move to an IPv6 world: 2011
• Percentage of users who access Google using IPv6 in September 2014: 4.5%
• IPv6 deployment in the USA: 32%
• Highest IPv6 deployment in Asia and Oceania: Japan, 30%
  • Deployment in China: 6.5%
  • Deployment in India: 21%
• Highest IPv6 deployment in Europe: Belgium, 47%
• Highest IPv6 deployment in South America: Peru, 25%
• Highest IPv6 deployment in Africa: Tunisia, 23%
• How many Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) exist to provide number resource allocation and registration services that support the global operation of the Internet: 5

New gTLDs

• How many generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) existed in 2012 (including .com, .org, etc.): 22
• How many country-specific TLDs exist today (including .de, .nl, and .co.uk): 295

• Number of applications for new gTLDs submitted to ICANN as of July 2014: 1930
  • Those in North America: 911
  • Europe: 675
  • Asia Pacific: 303
  • South America: 24
  • Africa: 17
• Evaluation fee paid to ICANN to apply for a new gTLD: $185,000
• How many new gTLD applications have been “delegated”, i.e., introduced into the Internet as of 29 Aug 2014: 378
  • How many applications have been withdrawn: 238
  • How many are pending string contention resolution: 479
• Top five new gTLDs as of September 08, 2014:
  • .xyz (481,774 registrations, 22% of total)
  • .berlin (138,577 registrations, 6% of total)
  • .club (103,429 registrations, 4% of total)
  • .guru (70,351 registrations, 3% of total)
  • .wang (64,180 registrations, 2.9% of total)
• Biggest selling Internationalized Domain Name (IDN): .在线 (.online) (35,849 registrations)

Registrations

• How many new gTLD domain names have been registered: 2,168,159
  • Percentage of these that are “suspicious domains” suspected of fraud: 0.02%
• How many new gTLD domain names are going to a “parked” page (such as a registrar placeholder or being redirected to another domain): 80%
• How many of domain names with .xyz, the leading new gTLD, are parked: 94%
• Top 3 registrars for new gTLDs: Network Solutions (18.5% of share), GoDaddy.com (16.6%), and eNom (6.8%)
• Top 3 countries that registrations for new gTLD domain names are coming from:
  • United States (795,036 domains, 37% of total)
  • Germany (314,665 domains, 15% of total)
  • China (195,859 domains, 9% of total)
• The most common new gTLD domains being registered in the U.S.: .xyz (50% of domains), .guru (4%), and .club (4%)
• The most common new gTLD domains being registered in China: .wang (32 of domains)

• Number of marketers surveyed in the U.S. who said new gTLDs would make the Internet confusing: 75%
  • How many total U.S. respondents espoused this view: 50%
  • How many respondents globally espoused this view: 43%

Sources

• 6Lab. Cisco. Last accessed September 2014.
• Internatonal gTLD Awareness Report. Sedo. July 2014.
• IPv6 Statistics. Google. Last accessed September 2014.
• Leaderboard. Namestat. Last accessed September 2014.
• New Generic Top Level Domains. ICANN. Last accessed September 2014.
• New gTLD Summary. nTLDStats. Last accessed September 08, 2014.
• Program Statistics. ICANN. Last accessed September 2014.