Squatters hit .kiwi.nz

A couple of days ago the .kiwi.nz second level domain was opened up. Within a day over 1000 domains were registered.

But I was wondering who is registering the domains, I though I’d have a quick look though some top brands and domains:

  • telecom.kiwi.nz – Squatter
  • vodafone.kiwi.nz – Squatter
  • 2degrees.kiwi.nz – Squatter
  • google.kiwi.nz – Squatter
  • yahoo.kiwi.nz – Squatter
  • bing.kiwi.nz – Squatter
  • youtube.kiwi.nz – Squatter
  • facebook.kiwi.nz – Squatter
  • trademe.kiwi.nz – Squatter
  • stuff.kiwi.nz – Squatter
  • nzherald.kiwi.nz – Squatter
  • msn.kiwi.nz – Available
  • wikipedia.kiwi.nz – Available
  • asb.kwi.nz – Squatter
  • bnz.kiwi.nz – Squatter
  • westpac.kiwi.nz – Squatter
  • kiwibank.kiwi.nz – Available
  • nationalbank.kiwi.nz – Squatter
  • tv3.kiwi.nz – Squatter
  • tvnz.kiwi.nz – Squatter
  • sky.kiwi.nz – Legit Owner
  • airnz.kiwi.nz – Legit Owner
  • skykiwi.kiwi.nz – Squatter
  • coke.kiwi.nz – Squatter
  • pepsi.kiwi.nz – Squatter

Several in the list above (and I assume other domains) have been registered by the same few people. Overall not a good look but I assume things will calm down after a few lawyers letters and dollars are exchanged.

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Where the NZ eyeballs are

So I was wondering what is the market share of New Zealand ISPs these days, do Telecom and TelstraClear still completely dominate the market? or have the smaller ISPs caught up?

Earlier this week I grabbed a sample of the weblogs from a large New Zealand website and checked to see which networks the readers came from.

Using the tools at Team Cymru I checked looked up the origin ASN ( roughly ISP ) for that network, this enabled me to work out which percentage of the traffic came from which ISPs.

  • I’ve included the data from 2 times below, a daytime one for the “business traffic” and an evening sample for “home traffic”
  • Data during both periods is over 20Mb/s and from a general interest New Zealand website (anonymous as condition of releasing the data)
  • Only requests that originate from New Zealand are included.
  • There may be a bias of traffic towards Auckland
  • Note that only the largest sites will own their own networks, AS and run BGP . Thus sometimes very large companies and other organisations will be included as part of their ISP’s total.
  • Stats below are sorted by bandwidth used

I was interested to see how much Telecom (including the Netgate brand which is probably Chorus) still dominates. I was actually surprised to see that Telecom dominates the home market much more than the business market whereas I would have expected the other way around.

Between Noon and 1pm on Thursday the 6th of Sept.

Percent  ASN     ASN Description
36.82    4771    Telecom New Zealand Ltd.
15.10    4768    TelstraClear Ltd
7.41     4648    Netgate
5.60     17746   Orcon Internet
3.03     7657    Vodafone NZ Ltd.
2.69     9889    Maxnet / Vocus
2.33     9503    FX Networks Limited
1.91     38793   NZCOMMS. Mobile phone Company. New Zealand
1.90     9790    CallPlus Services Limited
1.73     10022   Internet access for Datacom Systems Auckland
1.41     23655   Snap Internet Limited
1.36     9431    The University of Auckland
1.28     9325    Telecom XTRA, Auckland
1.05     4770    ICONZ Ltd
0.92     17492   Vector Communications LTD.,
0.88     24183   DTS LTD
0.79     17435   WorldxChange Communications LTD
0.73     18353   Revera NZ Limited
0.71     9245    COMPASS NZ
0.66     18021   Unisys NZ, IT Outsourcer,
0.56     55454   Orcon Internet Ltd
0.48     9872    ITNet Ltd
0.41     17412   Woosh Wireless
0.39     45946   Air New Zealand Limited
0.36     9432    University of Canterbury
0.36     38305   The University of Otago
0.34     2570    Telecom New Zealand Ltd
0.32     9303    KC Computer Service Ltd.,
0.30     24324   Kordia Limited
0.29     17649   DMZGlobal Ltd
0.28     55872   BayCity Communications Limited
0.26     9345    Paradise Net
0.25     23838   Solarix Networks Limited
0.25     17705   InSPire Net Ltd
0.25     10200   Web hosting provider and ISP connectivity.
0.24     9876    Airnet
0.23     24318   Ministry of Education
0.23     17663   Housing New Zealand Corporation Internet
0.21     2687    AT&T Global Network Services - AP

Between 8pm and 10pm on Wednesday the 5th of Sept.

Percent  ASN     ASN Description
62.71    4771    Telecom New Zealand Ltd.
12.97    4768    TelstraClear Ltd
6.34     17746   Orcon Internet
2.89     7657    Vodafone NZ Ltd.
2.74     9790    CallPlus Services Limited
1.47     17435   WorldxChange Communications LTD
1.26     17412   Woosh Wireless
0.96     38793   NZCOMMS. Mobile phone Company. New Zealand
0.92     23655   Snap Internet Limited
0.81     4648    Netgate
0.63     9889    Maxnet / Vocus
0.49     55872   BayCity Communications Limited
0.46     4770    ICONZ Ltd
0.42     17705   InSPire Net Ltd
0.38     17994   Appserv Limited
0.37     9872    ITNet Ltd
0.35     45267   Lightwire LTD
0.32     9325    Telecom XTRA, Auckland
0.27     9245    COMPASS NZ
0.25     45946   Air New Zealand Limited
0.20     10200   Web hosting provider and ISP connectivity.
0.17     9303    KC Computer Service Ltd.,
0.16     9345    Paradise Net
0.16     45177   Layer2.co.nz
0.16     38305   The University of Otago
0.15     23735   Enternet Online Ltd
0.13     9431    The University of Auckland
0.13     24324   Kordia Limited
0.11     17492   Vector Communications LTD.,
0.10     9876    Airnet
0.10     55853   Megatel
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Links: Density done well, schizophrenia, Olympics and Socialist networks

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Links: 8bit T2, IQ, Baby names, Low Power computers

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Links: CGI Screwups, Being in the band, How many servers does google have?

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Links: The Ritz, Startup myths, 78 sqft apartments, screenwriting

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Links: Blade runner in watercolour, caching, Flying cars, Prometheus

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Gather 2012: Middle Session

Making infographics that don’t suck – Mike Mike Dickison

  • www.numberpix.com
  • Didn’t have a chance to take notes cause it was so full I couldn’t sit down

Gather on mass – featuring Rowan Simpson, Karl von Randow and Penny Hagen

Rowan Simpsons

  • Developers + designers + dictators
  • Poster Boy Dictator = Steve Jobs
  • change made by people: who care, have authority, take responsibility
  • Careful about words they use – Don’t use “they” , careful how you describe colleges, other teams, “the business”
  • Domestics – members of cycling team supporting head rider
  • Focus – we all know it is good but it is uncommon.
  • Opposite of focus – Don’t get bored, don’t flail
  • You don’t have to invent you just have to leverage these and execute
  • Innovation just one action, execution requires you to keep going though many steps
  • MVP – whatever you can sell
  • Sales – How will overcome your obscurity?
  • Be a polymath – what else are you good at? where is the intersection?

Karl van Randow

  • Focus on design – how it looks and how it works
  • “NASCAR fans” – generic term for customers
  • Team in NZ, USA and Europe. ichat and skype
  • Camera+
  • Changed from “shoot and share” to “post-processing app”
  • Lots of mockups, iterative design
  • Initial startup page had animated viewfinder, launched with but removed after 6 months
  • Custom typeface, skewed thumbnails, etc makes app feel unique
  • Release to correspond with WWDC keynote, competition to give away $10k of camera gear. Lots of public charts of sales ( with nice infographics) to attract attention

Penny Hagen

  • Design in the Wild.
  • Iterative, largely private within company/studio at the start
  • Few users at the start in house, but only a few testers.
  • Beat blurs private/public
  • Crowd sourcing – get ideas from public – cars, nightclubs, ACC ideas
  • Open Design – Normal process but all phases open to public and takes input from public – eg Drupal website redesign ( 1600 people participated )
  • Emergent Design – Initial design and then evolve final design from there. Patchwork prototyping ( start with existing software product and patch )
  • DIY Design – Ponoko – Build a platform and let end users design
  • Constant Design – ongoing conversations
  • Potential / Challenges = mass distributed participation – transparency – everyone becomes a design
  • Questions – who, how, why? – who owns ideas/IP? – who decides what is good/right – what tools? – what is designers roles? – why aren’t more people doing it?

 

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Gather 2012: Morning

Automating things – Mal Curtis

babushka – http://babushka.me

  • nested dependencies.
  • useful to define what software you need on a system as well as configuration
  • similar to puppet and chef
  • each dependency has a url to grab it from and a .app which list install defaults, configs, dependencies,
  • server config just has a bunch of dependencies listed

Vagrant – vagrantup.com

  • Automate process of creating virtual machines
  • Runs program like babushka once machine is live

Capistrano

  • Code deployment

Jenkins

  • Continuous integration
  • hard to setup – look at “go ci” instead perhaps

 

Powering a Mt Eden Cafe – Nate Dunn

  • Tuihana Cafe in Mt Eden Rd
  • Runs 3bits design setup

Chellenges

  • Highly competative industry
  • Tight margins
  • Advertising doesn’t work very well

Get the basics right

  • Clean, bright warn environment
  • extraordinary staff and passionate staff
  • Great coffee and food with plenty of choices ( but not too many options )
  • Look after your regular customers

Clever Technology

  • eftpos over broadband, with nfc
  • naked DSL and VOIP – phone lines expensive, no need to dialup always on, have to have broadband for Free Wifi anyway, VOIP really cheap and works whereever you are
  • coffee ordering via sms, email, twitter. Twitter DM -> Custom Windows App, 2N cellular gateway on vodafone prepay -> nice printout + reply with confirmation of email/sms/twitter. SMS is most popular method. Inspired by subway’s system. Commercial SMS gateways too expensive at their scale just $10/month for prepay acct.
  • Learnt – word numbers not important, customers don’t read messages, some will register & never use, novelty for most, must-have for core group
  • NFC – visa paywave + mastercard paypass – quickest way to pay. Few people have cards or know how to use
  • Snapper not supported since they are with eftposnz and didn’t work with paymark eftpos provider
  • Free Wifi – expected by most customers, just works having codes too complicated, rate/protocol/time limited . Extremely rate limited on all ports except 80/443 , time limit to 1h. Seperate SSds for customers and staff. Powered by mikrotik
  • Google Alerts – looks for reviews anywhere, all sites. Put all reviews on our feedback page. Have a unique name so easy to find.
  • foursquare – not heavily used, has 2 offers but rarely redeemed
  • Only 150 followers, broadcast platform. DM ordering only used by a few
  • Facebook – most customers on it, best bang for a buck advertising, good analytics. Take the good and the bad facebook posts. More people will see facebook post and come in than will like.
  • custom facebook app checks twitter feed every 10 minutes and posts ( grabs photos off yfrog if linked ). People see posts of food and come in to buy
  • Blog – facebook don’t like pulling RSS feed so have custom app to pull facebook notes and post to blog

 

Official Information Act requests – fyi.org.nz

  • Need to be specific
  • Ombudsman office a bit slow. Some problems with lack of “case law” from them
  • Charges usually not a problem
  • Over 3000 government bodies listed, around 2000 of them schools
  • Bulk questions are discouraged, limits, has been abused overseas
  • Even the GCSB respond to OIA requests
  • Police and some govt departments require requests directly
  • Information include Police interrogation manuals!

 

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