My previous post "Source Address Classification - Feature Engineering" introduced the background of the source address classification problem and a critical part of the work - »
This is a follow-up post on registrant classification. Before reading this post, make sure to check out Registrant Classification using Machine Learning. In the last post, »
I’m currently attending the ICANN organisation’s Global Domains Divison (GDD) Industry Summit being held in Vancouver, Canada. Arriving to warm weather, soaring mountains and »
Problem background As we operate the authoritative name servers for the .nz ccTLD (Country Code Top Level Domain), we observe more than 500k unique source addresses »
An important task in text data mining is text classification/categorisation. The objective, is to start with a training set of documents (e.g. newspaper articles) »
An interesting request we received after the register size prediction presentation at the Registrar Conference earlier last year, was a suggestion of applying similar methodology on »
As part of our efforts to understand the .nz namespace better, we started at the beginning of 2017 to check domains for the presence of a »
As we run the .nz ccTLD (Country Code Top Level Domain) authoritative nameservers, we receive lots of DNS queries and answer each query with a DNS »
In my previous two posts, we've seen how to model domain retention prediction and new creates forecasting. Those are essential model components required for a register »
The Domain Name System is a distributed database with a hierarchical structure. A complete DNS resolution is a time-consuming process composed of iterations of network communications »
Customer-base analysis has become increasingly important. A critical part of the analysis is the prediction of retention rate, which is defined as the proportion of customers »
The number of new domain creations is an important indicator of the registry activity. Using an appropriate method to predict the number of creations in the »
So today marks my last day in the office as CMO for the .nz registry, NZRS. A bitter sweet day as a I reflect on my »
As part of our role as .nz registry, we manage 4 out of 7 of the .nz authoritative name servers. We receive hundreds of millions of »
Recently the European Domain Centre published a fantastic infographic that shows the explosion of new top level domain options that have and are being made available. »