A presentation made by Siddharth Taliyan on how ccTLDs in Latin America can make the most out of their resources to expand their distribution network and further strengthen their ccTLD growth.
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Latin American ccTLD Distribution strategies - ICANN 53 presentation
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ccTLD Marketing & Distribution
Presented by: Siddharth Taliyan
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Internet Penetration Data
Region
Internet Users
(as of Dec 2000)
Internet Users
(as of Jun 2014)
Internet User
Growth
(2000 – 2014)
Current Internet
Penetration
Africa 4.5 Mil 297.9 Mil 6,498.6% 26.5%
Asia 114.3 Mil 1,386.2 Mil 1,112,7% 34.7%
Europe 105.1 Mil 582.4 Mil 454.2% 70.5%
Middle East 3.3 Mil 111.8 Mil 3,303.8% 48.3%
North America 108.1 Mil 310.3 Mil 187.1% 87.7%
Latin America 18.1 Mil 320.3 Mil 1,672.7% 52.3%
Oceania 7.6 Mil 26.8 Mil 251.6% 72.9%
Source: internetworldstats.com
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Internet Penetration Data
Advanced v/s Emerging Economies
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Historical & Projected Trends
Internet User Distribution
8%
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TLD DISTRIBUTION STRATEGY
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TLD Distribution Strategy
• Domains are sold only through Registrars
• There’s one PROBLEM with this!
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TLD Distribution Strategy
The way we use and the way we consume the
internet has changed
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TLD Distribution Strategy
Your ccTLDs vs Others
<image showing the storefront of different
products we used in the VI Big Idea PPT>
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TLD Distribution Strategy
Registrars choose which TLDs they want to
focus on selling
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Traditional Distribution Strategy
Registrants are now spoilt for choice too
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Let’s Quickly Look At Two Purchase
Scenarios..
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He visits a Partner Registrar’s website from your List of
Registrars
Scenario 1
You Promote your TLD extensively to your Target Market
A potential Registrant visits your Registry Website
He searches for “mydomain.fantastic”
He sees 100s of other options on the Registrar’s website
Confused, he doesn’t buy any domain OR He ends up
buying some other domain “mydomain.awesome”
Purchase Pipeline
0%
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Scenario 2
You Promote your TLD extensively to your
Target Market
A potential Registrant visits your
Dedicated TLD Storefront
He searches for “mydomain.fantastic”
Purchase Pipeline
80%
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Scenario 2
You Promote your TLD extensively to your
Target Market
A potential Registrant visits your
Dedicated TLD Storefront
He searches for “mydomain.fantastic”
He BUYS “mydomain.fantastic”!
Purchase Pipeline
100%
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What Are The
Implications?
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What Are The Implications?
• Severe competition for visibility on the Registrar’s storefront
• Registries will need to compete for marketing support from Registrars
• Registries will need to rethink Distribution Channel Management &
Marketing
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So what do You
do?
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So what do You do?
• Take control of distribution and ensure success
• Reduce dependability on third party Registrars
• Reach out directly to customers and address their needs
• Enable local resellers who are well positioned to sell your ccTLD to your
Target customers
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What is the Ideal
Solution?
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What is the Ideal Solution?
Models Get the Best of both!
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How can your ccTLD achieve its Full
Potential?
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How can your ccTLD achieve its Full Potential?
1. Start a Flagship Storefront for your ccTLD
2. Build a Reseller / Distribution network
unique to your ccTLD
3. Automate all business functions
4. Sell additional Web Presence Products
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How can your ccTLD achieve its Full Potential?
1. Start a Flagship Storefront
.Your ccTLD
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How can your ccTLD achieve its Full Potential?
• Think about Customer retention
– Domain suggestions in the same ccTLD on your storefront
– Engage with customers
– Customer service and direct feedback through storefront
• Create Special offers on your exclusive storefront
1. Start a Flagship Storefront
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How can your ccTLD achieve its Full Potential?
• Create a wholesale network for your ccTLD
• Distributors who have already built a relation with your customers, and
have ready access to them
2. Build a unique Distribution network
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How can your ccTLD achieve its Full Potential?
• Automate all business critical functions: Provisioning, Sales, Marketing
and Finance
• Ensure the platform you choose is one that has evolved over the years
and has a comprehensive support system around it
3. Automate all Business Processes
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How can your ccTLD achieve its Full Potential?
• Sell high-margin products such as:
– Email Hosting
– Web Hosting
– Digital Certificates
– Website Builders
• Boost average revenue per customer
• Increase customer stickiness
4. Sell additional Web Presence Products
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Proof of Concept
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.MN Registry (ccTLD of Mongolia)
No. of Registrars selling .MN domains 10 years ago – 2
Total no. of .MN domains under the registry 10 years ago -
3328
No. of Registrars selling .MN domains today - 69
Total no. of .MN domains under the registry today - 16189
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About LogicBoxes
• The LogicBoxes System powers:
• Our ccTLD Partners include:
Datacom .COBelizeNIC .HN
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Editor's Notes
Vivek Notes:
First call on the fact hoe the no of internet users are exploded in so many regions. Call out to specific regions (based on webinar time slots)
Then call on to current internet penetration of these regions
End saying that there is still a lot of scope of internet user to grow in these regions (to be continued in next slide)
If we analyze the demography, we see that about 70% of the population from Developed Regions like NA and EU is ONLINE and only about 20% of the population from Developing regions has access to Internet as of today. In a way, this is a good thing for new gTLD applicants because as more and more individuals from these emerging economies go ONLINE, they would come to learn of the internet which has hundreds of Top Level domains and would grow to adapt to this user experience. Hence, they would be more appreciative of the new gTLD namespace.
The next logical question would be “are the emerging markets EMERGING fast enough to have a decisive impact on new gTLD namepace??”. The answer is … so far … YES!