One of the frequent claims about the .ORG price rises is that it is only domainers that will be affected and the non-profits will absorb the costs without questions. Such claims are typically based purely on opinion rather than data. In October 2019, HosterStats.com ran a 150K statistical web usage survey of .ORG to...
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gTLDs
gTLDs
A first look at .ORG Web Usage
XYZ 1c Promotion Renewal Rates
In June 2016, the .XYZ registry launched its 1 cent promotion where people could register .XYZ domain names for 1 cent. It was a massive success and the new registrations from 01 June 2016 to 01 July 2017 were 3,373,359 domain names. The bulk of that increase was from the promotion. But now, in...
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Over 160 million deleted COM domains
Since HosterStats.com began tracking the TLDs in 2000, there were over 160.54 million deleted .COM domain names. The current number of active .COM domain is 114,440,467. Many people think of the .COM TLD, and indeed other TLDs, as being monolithic and rarely changing. The reality is that thousands of domain names are registered each...
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Growth in .COM lower than 2013
The monthly growth in .COM TLD during 2014 is lower than that of 2013. The .COM growth figures published by HosterStats.com show that while growth in .COM is still positive, it has slowed compared to other years. It has been suggested that the launch of the new gTLDs is responsible for this slower...
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Global maps of com net org biz info mobi asia website hosting
Ever wonder how many websites a country hosts? HosterStats.com has mapped all com/net/org/biz/info/mobi/asia websites and matched them, by IP address to the countries where they are hosted. The results are broken down by TLD. The cumulative gTLD (com/net/org/biz/info/mobi/asia) figures are also available and like the map of .COM websites, these are also broken down...
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The DNA of the new gTLDs – why .xyz looks odd
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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DotTel Drops over 26K Domains
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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gTLD Domain Name Counts By Country
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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State of the Irish Web – March 2012
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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Top 1000 Hosters Have Over 84 percent of domain market
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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