gTLDs

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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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 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 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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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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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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There seems to be an eternal battle on the internet between those protecting their brands and those who would use those brands in domain names. While some of these brands are easier to protect given that they have trademarks in many countries and jurisdictions, the cost of registering the brand as a domain name...
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A top hoster statistics page for each of the gTLDs that HosterStats.com tracks will be added over the next few days. It is no suprise that the leader in the most of the gTLDs is Godaddy. It has approximately 21.6% of the market share in com/net/org/biz/info and occupies the top position in .mobi and...
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