These are the HosterStats comments on the ICANN Consumer Choice and Trust draft report. The comments deal with the “parking” section where the ICANN CCT tried to understand what was going on with new gTLD and legacy gTLD web usage.
The CCT review team did not understand the complexities of measuring web usage in...
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HosterStats comments on the ICANN CCT draft report Parking section
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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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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Top 50 .co ccTLD Hosters Posted
HosterStats.com has posted the statistics for the top 50 .co ccTLD webhosters based on detected domain name counts. While only 616,227 .co domain names are currently tracked, over 1 million domain names have been registered in the ccTLD. Godaddy’s domaincontrol.com is the top hoster with 32.69% of the detected .co domain names. Godaddy has...
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Dropped .eu Domain Names
HosterStats.com has published a graph of dropped .eu domain names from 2007 to 2011. The .eu ccTLD has always been a strange ccTLD. It was a good idea poorly implemented and until recently, EUrid had published very little in the way of accurate statistics on registration trends in the .eu ccTLD. Recently it added...
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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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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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Brand Protection Domain Name Registrations
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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TLD Statistics Pages On HosterStats.com
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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