The statistics for dropped domains in .com from 2004 to 2010 are quite strange. A dropped domain is a domain that has been deleted and has not been reregistered. A reregistration is a domain that is subsequently reregistered. The averages for each of the years are below. The 2010 average is to November 2010.
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The changing face of .com domain drops – 2004 to 2010
10 Years Of Domain Drops – 142 Million Deleted Domains
Over the past ten years or so, the HosterStats.com databases have generated very large lists of dropped domain names. Many of these domains were dropped at the end of the DotCom Bubble and some were tasted and dropped. Others still were dropped through natural attrition. The .com list of dropped domains is over 105.6...
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