The first .US Cross TLD Comparison has been posted on www.hosterstats.com/us-cctld.php and it shows that .us ccTLD is still quite a vibrant ccTLD. The cross TLD comparison works by checking each domain registered in a TLD against other TLDs. With most ccTLDs, it would be expected that the most common pattern of registration would...
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.US ccTLD Cross TLD Comparison Posted On HosterStats.com
Top 10 ccTLDs Have Over 47 Million Domains Registered
The top ten country code Top Level Domains have more than 47 Million domains registered as of the end of May 2010. These ccTLDs have 47,430,061 domains registered. The .com TLD had 87,528,607 domains registered as of 01 June 2010. The growth of the ccTLDs has been one of the stealth issues of the...
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20.48% of Irish Websites On 10 IP addresses
Just over 20% of Irish websites are on 10 IP addresses. The number of Irish websites covered in the survey was 257695. There were only 20959 distinct IP addresses. The WhoisIreland.com survey of Irish websites runs every month and covers .ie websites and Irish hosted com/net/org/biz/info/eu websites. The concentration of websites on a small...
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.uk ccTLD Overtakes .cn ccTLD
The .uk ccTLD domain name count for the April 2010 was 8,483,010. The .cn ccTLD domain name count for April 2010 was 8,254,681. The .uk ccTLD, adminstered by Nominet, has overtaken the .cn ccTLD and is now the second largest ccTLD globally after the .de ccTLD (13,630,401 domains as of the end of April) ...
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.asia Domain Name Count Below 200K
As of this morning (05 May 2010) the domain name count for .asia sTLD is below the psychologically important 200,000 mark. The domain name count from the zonefile was 197,311 domains. The large drop over the last few weeks has been the result of an echo of last year’s Landrush anniversary Junk Dump phase...
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.asia Domain Name Count Count Falls
The .asia stld has had a hard time competing with the major ccTLDs (.cn .au .jp .kr .in) in the Asia region and it is currently experiencing an echo of its Landrush anniversary Junk Dump phase. The domain name count for .asia sTLD on 01 May 2010 was 207,586. As of this morning (04...
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130 Million Deleted Domain Names
HosterStats.com has the domain history of over 130 Million domains deleted between December 2000 and April 2010. These domains are generally available to register. While some of these domains are domains that have been the subject of domain tasting, many are not. They were once somebody’s idea of how they were going to make...
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dot Tel domains Added To Domain Keywords Lists
The HosterStats.com domain name keywords lists now cover .tel domain names. Each domain name in .com .net .org .biz .info .mobi .asia and .tel is checked against a list of 5880 of the most popular keywords. The lists are broken down on a keyword length basis and cover 3 letter keywords up to 20...
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.cn Domain Drop Continues – .uk May Overtake .cn
The Chinese .cn ccTLD has lost more domains and has 8,844,196 domains registered as of March 2010. This is a drop of 690,924 domains since February. However the January 2010 to February 2010 drop was 2,744,961 domains. This may indicate that the bulk of the domains being dropped were those from the low cost...
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Brand Protection Analysis Added To HosterStats Domain Search
The domain search facility on HosterStats.com now has a brand protection analysis of domain names. It shows how a domain name is registered across the gTLDs and also the hoster of the the domain in other gTLDs. Thus if the domain name Microsoft.com was being checked, the results page will show in which gTLDs...
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