One of the frequent claims about the .ORG price rises is that it is only domainers that will be affected and the non-profits will absorb the costs without questions. Such claims are typically based purely on opinion rather than data. In October 2019, HosterStats.com ran a 150K statistical web usage survey of .ORG to...
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EURid’s Q4 2019 report shows effect of BREXIT
EURid published its Q4 2019 report and it shows the impact that BREXIT is having on the ccTLD. The number of UK registered .EU domain names declined from 240,887 domain names at the start of 2019 to 150,024 by the end of 2019. The main reason for this decline is that BREXIT means that...
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January 2018 – Boom and Bust in top new gTLDs
For some new gTLDs, 2017 has been a tough year in terms of deletions. When the figures for January 2018 are compared to the January 2017 figures for these gTLDs, the top new gTLDs lost millions on domain names. However, it was not all doom and gloom. The majority of the losses were heavily...
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HosterStats comments on the ICANN CCT draft report Parking section
These are the HosterStats comments on the ICANN Consumer Choice and Trust draft report. The comments deal with the “parking” section where the ICANN CCT tried to understand what was going on with new gTLD and legacy gTLD web usage.
The CCT review team did not understand the complexities of measuring web usage in...
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XYZ 1c Promotion Renewal Rates
In June 2016, the .XYZ registry launched its 1 cent promotion where people could register .XYZ domain names for 1 cent. It was a massive success and the new registrations from 01 June 2016 to 01 July 2017 were 3,373,359 domain names. The bulk of that increase was from the promotion. But now, in...
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Denis O’Brien’s Digicel To Float without digicel.com?
Denis O’Brien’s Digicel Group is due to float on the New York Stock Exchange. While it is officially known as the Digicel group, there is one problem with its branding. It does not own the domain name DIGICEL.COM. That domain name has been registered since 1998 and is parked on SEDO Parking. That kind...
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Over 160 million deleted COM domains
Since HosterStats.com began tracking the TLDs in 2000, there were over 160.54 million deleted .COM domain names. The current number of active .COM domain is 114,440,467. Many people think of the .COM TLD, and indeed other TLDs, as being monolithic and rarely changing. The reality is that thousands of domain names are registered each...
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Growth in .COM lower than 2013
The monthly growth in .COM TLD during 2014 is lower than that of 2013. The .COM growth figures published by HosterStats.com show that while growth in .COM is still positive, it has slowed compared to other years. It has been suggested that the launch of the new gTLDs is responsible for this slower...
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AFNIC 50-50 rule article on Land Rush in new gTLDs
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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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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