Results on .info Presented by:

Desiree Miloshevic, Director, Business Development

Milan – November 5, 2002 – www.domainday.info

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Agenda

Introduction to Afilias Market Overview Results on .info Summary

Introduction to Afilias

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Afilias Background Founded in Sept 2000 Consortium of 18 ICANN registrars .INFO contract awarded in Oct 2000 .INFO launched in July 2001 .ORG- contract awarded in Oct 2002

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Source: Root Server Performance Analysis; Catbird Networks, Sept. 2002

Afilias technology is fast EPP process is fast and efficient UltraDNS enables .INFOs to resolve faster

– Registration to Resolution time is nearing real time– Near continuous updating drives fast propagation

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Afilias technology is fast, secure and reliable

Millions of Euros invested to develop a superior registry system

Partnered with best of breed: IBM, UltraDNS and DSI Technology Escrow Services

Ability to support thin and thick models Open Source database yields excellent

performance and overall cost of ownership Existing relationships with over 100 registrars EPP registry system pioneer

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Afilias is the EPP Pioneer Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP)

enables:– Registrars to manage multiple domains across

multiple registries – Registries to handle multiple registrars

accessing the database simultaneously– .INFO domain names will be password

protected for the first time– Peace of mind for registrants

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Afilias technology is secure and reliable

Performance history-August, 2002 results:– DNS % uptime: 100%– DNS update interval: 100% < 5min– SRS % uptime: 100%– SRS query processing time: 270ms avg– Whois service availability: 99.87%– Whois query processing time: 100% < 200ms– Whois update interval: 100% < 5min

Last 5 months available at www.icann.org

Market Overview

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Legacy domains are declining

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New gTLDs are growing

Source: SOTD thru 6/02

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New gTLDs are the growth segment

bizbiz

Market Progress

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.INFO share of gTLDs continues to grow

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Total .INFO registrations have continued to build steadily

Nearing One Million .INFO

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Europe is a major source of success-53% of .INFOs

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Germany leads the world in live sites

.INFO Live Sites Distribution by Country

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Companies are marketing their.INFOs

domainday.info: spain.info: by Turespaña safrica.info: South Africa’s official gateway germantv.info: A joint project of public

broadcasting and international broadcaster Deutsche Welle

cranfieldmba.info: Cranfield University School of Management in the UK

mta.info: New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority

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Summary - Why use .info? Clear and distinctive positioning Open, non-restrictive, intuitive,

international- .info – “le informazione”- .info – Informationen- .info - l’informationAffordable,It’s for organisations, enterprises,

individuals… everyone

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Contact: Desiree Miloshevic (Europe/ME/Africa)

+44.207.602.9695

Dmiloshevic@afilias.info

Thank You!