AFNIC, the French ccTLD registry, published an article on applying the 50:50 law to new gTLD launches. Basically the law has to do with the number of registrations that a new TLD gains on the first day of Land rush being 50% of the domains that the TLD will achieve in the first month...
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Archive for June, 2014
AFNIC 50-50 rule article on Land Rush in new gTLDs
Global maps of com net org biz info mobi asia website hosting
Ever wonder how many websites a country hosts? HosterStats.com has mapped all com/net/org/biz/info/mobi/asia websites and matched them, by IP address to the countries where they are hosted. The results are broken down by TLD. The cumulative gTLD (com/net/org/biz/info/mobi/asia) figures are also available and like the map of .COM websites, these are also broken down...
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dotBERLIN – First freebies and now the deletions
In what must rank as the most effective action by a new gTLD registry yet, the .BERLIN zonefile was down by 3105 domains this morning. It wasn’t just housekeeping. Some hosters that had particular domain names in yesterday’s zonefile do not have the same domains in this morning’s zonefile (the domains having been deleted)....
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Most XYZ Websites Hosted in Virgin Islands
HosterStats.com ran a preliminary web survey of active new gTLDs and one of the unusual findings was that 85% of .XYZ websites are hosted in the Virgin Islands (UK). The Geographical distributions for these new gTLDs have now been published along with a map showing which countries host new gTLD websites. Some new gTLDs...
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Bing Wrong About Large Website Sitemaps
Bing (Microsoft’s Search Engine) is wrong about large website sitemaps going by its latest blogpost. It uses all the right buzzwords and even a Social Science number for emphasis but it misses one fundamental thing with large websites and their sitemaps – the importance of the lastmod element.
The main problem with extra-large sitemaps is...
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The DNA of the new gTLDs – why .xyz looks odd
HosterStats has compared the domains of all new gTLDs against the equivalent in COM/NET/ORG/BIZ/INFO/MOBI/ASIA to see what keyword patterns are present. These TLD comparisons show the DNA of a TLD and DNA of .xyz new gTLD is rather odd when compared with the TLD DNA of other new gTLDs such as .club and .guru....
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