Hi all. So I was thinking. It's been about 3 years now since we all banded together and voted for .geek.nz (You did all vote FOR it right?). I figured that even though there was a large takeup initially, that there would be a pretty severe dropoff over time, leaving about 6 people who actually wanted them. I asked Debbie if she could give me some stats and she pointed me at the following page. http://dnc.org.nz/story/30221-51-1.html It has statistics for all the .nz 2lds so I decided to graph them. You can see the entire spreadsheet here. http://deanpemberton.com/domainz.xls (Yes it's excel, yes I've confirmed that it opens in OpenOffice (Although the regression lines might not), no I don't want to hear any of your wingeing =) ) As a teaser, I've attached the graph for .geek.nz. You can clearly see that every year about Aug, there is a drop off as people figure they don't want their domains anymore (just after they get a bill). This dropoff is more than covered by the increase throughout the year though. So .geek.nz looks pretty strong. Much stronger than .maori.nz or .iwi.nz. There are even some 2ld's which are slowing down in their growth. Altough on the whole, the regression lines are pretty poorly fitting. Better fit models are welcome. What is interesting is that the .co.nz, .org.nz and therefore the Total can be modeled pretty well on a power curve. While it's not that much different to the linear it is food for thought. There is a possibility that these are growing faster than linear. Anyway - it was all interesting stuff and I thought you might all like to have a gander. Dean
