Re: [ga] Research: Which domains do the Fortune 1000 use?

[Marc Schneiders <marc@fuchsia.bijt.net>]

Very interesting. I do not, however, understand, why you limit your
research to US companies. Domain names are a global industry... So I had a
quick look at the first 10 companies in the Global 500 of Fortune. 5 of
them are not US (Daimler Chrysler, Royal Dutch Shell, BP, Mitsubishi,
Toyota). Of these 5, just 2 have their main domain with NSI/VeriSign. The
other 3 are with Register.com. Interesting that this differs so much from
the major US companies.

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On Thu, 23 May 2002, at 17:48 [=GMT-0400], Ben Edelman wrote:

> >From time to time, discussion on this list has turned to questions of
> registrar choice (whether for personal or organizational registrations) and
> of register financial viability going forwards.
>
> One data source that can be brought to bear on both these questions is a
> listing of registrars used by large corporations such as those on the
> Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 lists.  This data -- answering the question
> "Which registrars do the Fortune 1000 companies use?" -- is also arguably of
> some academic interest among those who study the domain name business and
> the positions of the various registrars.
>
> With that motivation, I've prepared a list of the primary domain names
> (according to Fortune Magazine) of each of the Fortune 1000 firms, along
> with the registrar used by each.  I've also compared registrar market shares
> among the Fortune firms with registrar shares more generally (thanks to SOTD
> for data), and I've discussed in greater detail a few of the possible
> implications of the results.
>
> My work on this subject is available at:
>   <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/edelman/fortune-registrars/>
>
> As always, I welcome comments -- on-list or via email -- as to other helpful
> and interesting research questions, and possible ways to go about addressing
> them.
>
>
> Ben Edelman
> Berkman Center for Internet & Society
> Harvard Law School
> http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/edelman
>
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