Remember those DirectNIC guys who stayed on NO? They're cashing now... :)
 

Zipa Gains Nearly 1 Million Sites As It Weathers Katrina

The past two months have been an extraordinary time for the InterCosmos Group, which operates a network of Internet companies in New Orleans. The company's colocation and hosting unit, Zipa, gained 990,000 hostnames between Aug. 15 and Sept. 15, capping a year of strong hostname growth. The huge gain appears to have come almost entirely from the registration of new domains that are now parked at Zipa, which added just 15,000 active sites on the month.

The company gained widespread notice during Hurricane Katrina, when its staff labored to keep its operations online as the city was battered and flooded. InterCosmos' domain registrar business, DirectNIC, is housed on the 10th and 11th floors of a 27-floor office tower near Lafayette Square, a portion of New Orleans that escaped the worst of the flooding. Employees live-blogged their efforts and posted photos of the storm's impact on the DirectNIC facility. An on-site webcam broadcast video of looting on surrounding streets.

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/10/10/zipa2.png

DirectNIC is the world's 11th-largest registrar, with more than 1.1 million domains registered. In 2003 Intercosmos paid just $250,000 to acquire a finished Enron Corp. data center in a bankruptcy sale. The 6,600 square foot New Orleans facility now hosues the shared hosting and colocation operations of Zipa.com.

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/20...k atrina.html

i remember that... i thought to myself that that was a kick ass group of people down there sticking in thru that shit... big fuckin thumbs up to em :thumbsup:

yeah it was cool to read their blog..i tuned in daily

What exactly attributed for the huge boost in sales like this?
WG

they deserve every $$they make

the exposure...and the fact that everyone now knows they are serious about keeping the biz running

congrats to them

That's not too shabby at all

That's a rethorical question? ;)

Those likely aren't long-term real domains. Directnic (and a few other registrars) have been playing a game of registering hundreds of thousands of domains daily, testing them for traffic, and then deleting 99.9% of the domains that don't get traffic within the initial 5-day deletion grace period.

You can see this at http://www.dailychanges.com/ if you check back for 5 days in a row.

their support now is a pure joke.

haha nice

Man I had no idea they had grown that much.

they deserve it imo

Now that's interesting. :disgust

No shit. What an advantage that gives a business.

wow, somebody on gfy that knows the real deal.

meant to ask you. does that mean registrars don't have to pay for domains unless they keep them past the 5 day grace period?

Good for them, they deserve it.

gnso.icann.org/issues/deletes/report-final-17jun03.shtml

Does Directnic host adult sites? :-)

When people that knew nothing about domains were mentioning Directnic to me I figured things were going okay.

They were all over the news ... and they prooved they were gonna be stable through everything ;)

Jeez that explains why the domains my friend searched for were registered the next day, then droped just after

Give it some time ... I'm sure they are hiring all day all night

I'm sure they didn't thought about that when they made that rule... we can say bye bye to new good typeins domains

Hats off to those Guys!!!
RoX On Mike and Crew!

-=Chipmunk=-