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66.3 Million Domain Names Registered

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the more-and-more dept.

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."

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  1. New sites by sczimme · · Score: 5, Funny


    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."

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  2. Country Codes by kjeldor · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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.

  3. Re:Content? by foobsr · · Score: 5, Funny

    mispellings of popular cites

    No.

    Presumably more likely.

    CC.

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