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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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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 (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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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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Google talks about link spam and every so often issues a FUD warning from on high or Twitter. Google is trundling off down the yellow brick road of AI irrelevance and it is driven by people who just don’t seem to understand the issue of link spam. So while the Google index turns to...
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The .tel zone shrunk by 26,217 domains since 01 January 2014. The bulk of these deletions seem to have occurred in the last forty eight hours. The .tel zone count on 01 January 2014 was 213,239 domains. The current zone count is 187,022 domains. There were 1,417 new domains since 01 January 2014. This...
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I’ve been working on a historical links graph and database for the Irish webscape for the last few years. One thing that has become increasingly apparent is that the ordinary (Google) approach to unnatural links may have got it backwards. In engineering, you solve a problem not its effects. Google seems to be trying...
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Global totals for gTLDs are great but they just don’t give the kind of country level view that most web hosters and registries need. Each country level market is typically based on a combination of domain names. The most important is generally the local ccTLD. But .COM TLD also occupies a major segment of...
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Over 21% of active Irish websites have a link to Facebook. Only 1.33% of active Irish websites link to plus.google.com. Between Facebook and Google Plus are Twitter, Youtube and LinkedIn. This data is based on the monthly webusage survey that HosterStats runs on the Irish web. The survey covers over 325K Irish and Irish...
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HosterStats Irish Website Usage Survey December 2012 The statistics below covers detected IE/COM/NET/ORG/BIZ/INFO/EU websites and classify each site based on its usage. Active/unclassified: 43.27% Brand Protection: 2.39% Clone sites: 2.56% In Page Redirects: 1.68% External TLD Redirect: 3.92% Forbidden/Not Found: 1.24% Government/EDU: 0.02% Holding Pages: 14.98% Internal Site Redirect: 6.37% Exact Match TLD Redirect: 2.88% PPC Parked: 13.02% Redirect/unclassified: 0.37% For Sale: 0.79% Unavailable: 0.46% Compromised: 0.10% In Zone Redirect: 5.93%
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