66.3 Million Domain Names Registered

IO ERROR writes "VeriSign announced that 5.1 million new domains were registered in the third quarter of 2004, and that there are now 66.3 million active domain names, both the highest numbers ever. It also said that the percentage of domains registered to live Web sites has increased and country code top-level domains are becoming more widely accepted."

Comments

Don't believe

[AlexTheBeast]

I am so jaded.

The first thing I thought about when I saw this... what is VeriSign trying to pull now.

/godaddy believer now

call for the silliest one !

[selderrr]

Add below the most silly domain name you've encountered so far ! this one is a nice start

Re:call for the silliest one !

[I confirm I'm not a]

Not particularly silly (especially if you're a Welsh speaker), but certainly long: http://www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyl l-llantysiliogogogoch.com/

Oh alright, it is silly.

Apparently even the place-name was made-up - in the 19th Century, to attract tourists on the new-fangled railways.

New sites

[sczimme]

VeriSign announced that 5.1 million new domains were registered in the third quarter of 2004

The representative then added "Approximately 58% of these are phishing sites."

My domain

[guttergod]

Somebody told you you were one in a million?? I laugh at you lack of uniqueness. I have one domain name... This means I am one in 66.3 million.... Go figure... :)

Re:My domain

[Anonymous Coward]

HA! I have three domains, so that makes me...uh...oh....HA! I have three domains!

Country Codes

[kjeldor]

"and country code top-level domains are becoming more widely accepted"

I'm sure this acceptance has arisen mainly from everyone's favorite Christmas Island website and it's hypnotizing void.

Re:Country Codes

[rylin]

Indeed, though I feel there's a huge gaping hole where once my favorite site was.

Obligatory Simpsons quote

[192939495969798999]

IMHO the greatest internet-related quote ever, and one that I will post at any remotely relevant opportunity (forgive my bad memory for inaccuracies)

Karl: "Hey Homer! You got the #1 non-adult-oriented website!"
Lenny: "...which makes it 10 trillionth overall!"

Re:Obligatory Simpsons quote

[The-Bus]

I personally like this quote:

"Girls are like internet domain names, the ones I like are already taken."
"Well, you can still get one from a strange country!"

Re:Content?

[foobsr]

mispellings of popular cites

No.

Presumably more likely.

CC.

And in other news...

[Alwin Henseler]

The number of domain names used for hosting adult content, was reported to have hit the 50 million mark.

Domain names and cyber squats

[famouswhendead]

Yep it does p*** me off with all the squatters around one typo and popup hell if you're on the wrong comp with wrong browser. But even I've owned my share of unnecessary domain names just in case ;) no real money made though (hundreds of euros not thousand anyways). Hell the more domains the better even though it feels a bit like a redlight district sometimes stuck inside some techno IT ghetto

Do the math

[54M5UNG]

SO,

FACT: With 86,400 seconds in one day, and 365.25 days in one year, there are 31,557,600 seconds in one year.

Under the supposition that a program were written that would allow one second to auto-load a URL into a browser, an average of 5 seconds to resolve and load a page on a standard ADSL connection, and one second to view the loaded page before repeating the process (7 seconds total), ~66,300,000 web pages could be viewed in 464,100,000 seconds.

Dividing these seconds by the seconds in one year indicates that it would take roughly 14.7 years to perform a check on every website.

Of course, this assumes that I Don't have to take roughly 31.3 seconds to close all the pop-up windows that the google toolbar missed, and that I have all the URLs.

(My God, I have too much time on my hands.)

Well, my next post will be in 2019, I suppose. ;)