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With all the Google gizzard gazing in the SEO community over what is a natural link profile and what is an “unnatural” link profile, this might put things in some perspective as it is based on how link profiles grow as seen by a search engine operator. Stage 0: Website launch Minimal links – typically outbound...
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The Irish webscape is complex even though it is only approximately 350K domains in size. Not all of it is hosted on Irish IP addresses or webhosters. The website percentages below are based on a crawl and categorisation of detected Irish websites. The Active/Unclassified percentage is the core of the Irish web. Brand protection...
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The Irish Domain Market Statistics for 01 February 2012 are as follows: .IE ccTLD: 174,596 (full ccTLD) .COM: 150,394 .NET: 15,082 .ORG: 9,031 .BIZ: 2,761 .INFO: 3,262 .MOBI: 1,111 .ASIA: 85 .US: 343 .EU (detected): 8,841 .UK (detected): 16,478 .CO (detected): 720 .ES (detected): 406 .DE (detected): 177 .FR (detected): 95 Main Irish market BIONIC (Biz/Info/Org/Net/IE/Com): 355,126 .IE market share of BIONIC: 49.16% These figures are based on Irish hosted domain names...
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In October 2011, the websites of 2.3 million .eu websites were surveyed by HosterStats.com. The websites (approximately 1.98 million responding) were then classified as to their domain usage. This is a more complex survey than Eurid’s Insight survey of a a few thousand .eu websites and it shows that .eu is being used but...
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The top 1000 webhosters have over 84% of the domain market. In the HosterStats.com Top 1000 Hosters report  for October 2011 shows that the top 1000 hosters in each TLD tracked have just over 84% of the market in the com/net/org/biz/info/mobi/asia/us TLDs.  In the newer TLDs such as .mobi and .asia, that concentration of...
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Eurid has finally won in court against a cybersquatter that had cybersquatted over 9000 .eu domains. The cybersquatter, Zheng Qingying, had no entitlement to register .eu domains and was not based in the EU. Eurid took court action against the cybersquatter and succeeded. The cybersquatter then appealed the ruling and Eurid won the appeal. The...
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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...
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HosterStats.com publishes first .CO Website Survey showing how .CO websites are used.
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HosterStats.com has posted the statistics for the top 50 .co ccTLD webhosters based on detected domain name counts. While only 616,227 .co domain names are currently tracked, over 1 million domain names have been registered in the ccTLD. Godaddy’s domaincontrol.com is the top hoster with 32.69% of the detected .co domain names. Godaddy has...
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HosterStats.com has published a graph of dropped .eu domain names from 2007 to 2011. The .eu ccTLD has always been a strange ccTLD. It was a good idea poorly implemented and until recently, EUrid had published very little in the way of accurate statistics on registration trends in the .eu ccTLD. Recently it added...
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