In the first 80 days the new quarantine system has been in place,
69,379 domain names have been cancelled and placed in quarantine with
261 of these names re-registered by their old registrant within the
forty-day period.
Other statistics from SIDN on the first 80 days of the new quarantine system are:
- 46,742 of the quarantined domain names have become available for general registration at the end of the forty-day period.
- 5,096 domain names were re-registered within twenty-four hours of being made generally available.
- 485 domain names were re-registered after more than twenty-four hours.
- 41,161 domain names have not been re-registered since becoming generally available.
- 22,376 are still in quarantine.
SIDN note the main reason for introducing the quarantine system was to
give the old registrant forty days to reconsider the cancellation. The
arrangement also ensures that, if a name is cancelled by accident or by
mistake, no one else can immediately snap up the name, creating
difficulties for the old registrant. That 261 registrants have already
‘rescued’ their domain names from quarantine within the forty-day
period indicates to SIDN the system provides an effective protection in
practice.
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David Goldstein