August 2011 .CO Web Survey 73111 Expired .co Domains

The HosterStats.com August 2011 .co Web Survey shows that of the 558,066 websites surveyed, 73,111 of these are now expired. This is approximately 13.07% of the responding websites and 11.19% of the tracked .co domain names.

• Web Type — Websites — % Websites
  
• Active/unclassified: 67,976  –  12.1572%
• Brand Protection:  10,429 –  1.8652%
• Possibly Compromised:   32 –  0.0057%
• In Page Redirect:  2,773 –  0.4959%
• External TLD Redirects:  40,615 –  7.2638%
• Forbidden/ Not Found: 6701 –  1.1984%
• Holding Page:  67,943 –  12.1513%
• Internal Site Redirect:  18,438 –  3.2975%
• Expired Domain: 73,111 — 13.0755%
• Premium Reserved:  3,409 –  0.6097%
• Exact Match External TLD Redirect:  18,715 –  3.3471%
• Duplicate Content:   233 –  0.0417%
• PPC Parked:  227,727 — 40.7279%
• Uncategorised Redirects:  1,091 –  0.1951%
• For Sale/Rent:  5,483 –  0.9806%
• Unavailable:  854 –  0.1527%
• Adult (generic):   116 — 0.0207%
• Redirect to .co sites:  13,497 –  2.4139%

The main hosters with expired .co domain names are:

DOMAINCONTROL.COM       13,143
SEDOPARKING.COM       6,825
SECURESERVER.NET      6,234
CASHPARKING.COM       3,374
DOMAINMONSTER.COM    1,263
WORLDNIC.COM     1,194
KOLMIC.COM   992
REGISTRAR-SERVERS.COM  791
REGISTER.COM   782
DIRECTNIC.COM  712

The top hoster with most expired .co domain names is Godaddy’s DOMAINCONTROL.COM but as Godaddy is the .co flagship registrar, this high number of expired domains is to be expected.