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The number of registered .eu domains dropped on on what is the anniversary of the .eu domain name Land Rush of 2006. This morning’s .eu registration figure was 3,326,388 domains, This would put the .eu back to December 2010 registration numbers. The most interesting drop has been that of the country of Cyprus. It dropped...
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The .mobi TLD has more than one million domain names in its zone file. This morning’s domain count for .mobi TLD is 1,002,232 domains. While the TLD was heavily speculated at its launch, the device specific nature of (it is targeted at mobile devices) made it somewhat different from other new TLDs. The largest...
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The UK is one of the main players in the ccTLD world with the second largest ccTLD in the world. Its ccTLD has over 9 million domains registered and most of them are in the .co.uk subdomain. However that is only the tip of the iceberg for the UK’s domain industry. The latest HosterStats...
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The 01 March 2011 HosterStats.com domain count for .org registrations is 9,000,3560. The .org TLD has now broken the nine million registered domains mark. This is a significant milestone for .org and its growth has been almost under the radar. Most of the attention seems to be focused on the .com TLD and the...
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The Dutch ccTLD, .nl, has overtaken the Chinese ccTLD, .cn. On 31st of January 2011, the .nl had 4,257,410 domains registered according to the .nl registry website www.sidn.nl. The .cn registry figures for January 2011 show that it has 3,494,227 domains registered. This is a massive change for the .cn ccTLD but it is...
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The statistics for dropped domains in .com from 2004 to 2010 are quite strange. A dropped domain is a domain that has been deleted and has not been reregistered. A reregistration is a domain that is subsequently reregistered. The averages for each of the years are below. The 2010 average is to November 2010. Year...
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Over the past ten years or so, the HosterStats.com databases have generated very large lists of dropped domain names. Many of these domains were dropped at the end of the DotCom Bubble and some were tasted and dropped. Others still were dropped through natural attrition. The .com list of dropped domains is over 105.6...
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The TLD has passed 90 million domain name registrations mark. The figure for active .com domains as of 02 October 2010 is 90,001,869. While some of the more recently launched TLDs have had difficulty in gaining market share, the .com TLD is still the single most important global top level domain. And that is...
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The Irish hosting market has a new market leader. Blacknight.com has overtaken Register365.ie to become Ireland’s top retail web hoster. The counts are based on the numbers of domain names hosted on the web hosters main nameservers. The term BIONIC refers to Biz/Info/Org/Net/Ie/Com and it is the main metric for counting the domains...
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The issue of brand protection registration domain names is an important one for anyone with an business built around a domain name.  Determining what is a brand protection registration is one of the most difficult problems in domain name statistics. The figures below go some way towards solving that problem. They are based on...
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