Afilias

The Afilias Limited is an Irish ISP based in Dublin. The company was founded in September 2000 and serves as a central procurement agency (registry) for. Info and other top -level domains, as well as operators of DNS services.

History

Afilias was launched as a joint venture of several registrars to life in 2000. Purpose was to apply to ICANN to the introduction of new generic address. Info, which was later actually awarded to Afilias. Due to the large demand for. Info domains that can be registered since mid-2001, Afilias rose quickly to become one of the largest registrars. Counted three years after the introduction. Already info on the six most successful domains.

In 2006, Afilias began with the operation of the top -level domain aero. . The company does not act directly as a contracting authority but provides the technical infrastructure in the background are available. Together with the web host GoDaddy to Afilias later applied also to one years. Us, but could not prevail against NeuStar itself.

Great attention learned the acquisition of mTLD Top Level Domain Ltd.. in February 2010. The company was mobi responsible for awarding. , and had to struggle with declining demand for domain names under this extension. Experts assessed the acquisition largely critical: There were doubts that Afilias the trend could reverse mobile away from. .

2012 was Afilias buying RegistryPro known, the per operates the domain. . The company was previously owned by the Hostway Corporation, on the amount of the purchase price, the parties made ​​no details. At this time, Afilias was involved directly or indirectly of 17 top- level domains by its own account in the operation.

The contract with ICANN to operate. Info expired at the end of 2012. He was short term extended by six months, until a new agreement can be closed. The new contract, which was published in June 2013, has allowed for the first time Afilias, domains themselves and to sell so without going through an accredited registrar.

. info is the fifth most registered, with approximately 6.7 million domains domain extension.

Activities

The products and services from Afilias are divided into two areas:

• Global Registry Services: This business unit includes all activities related to the operation and management of TLDs.
• Managed DNS Service: This includes providing highly available and secured DNS services is summarized.

With the introduction of new top -level domains 2013, Afilias has applied for more than 30 submissions.