Domain Statistics

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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