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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. Re:Squatting by CrackerJack9 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, this could cause some problems for those evil scripts...

    What is the Domain Redemption Period?

    The redemption period is a Domain Registry period of up to 30 days that occurs when a domain name is deleted after having expired unrenewed. Instead of just getting deleted and returning to the pool of domain names available for registration, the existing registry keeps a hold on the domain name in a what is technically called as REDEMPTION PERIOD.

    *IMPORTANT PART*
    During this 30-day redemption period, the original domain registrant (owner of the domain) is allowed to retrieve the domain name from deletion by contacting their Registrar. [Google search]

    I actually own a name that expired in September--having forgotten to renew it even I am having trouble transfering it back to myself (through a different registrar)...so them must be some incredible magical scripts....

  2. Gaining/Losing registrars by Saeger · · Score: 4, Informative
    Just thought that it would be interesting to note that NetworkSolutions and Register.com are in the Top10 losing registrars. Seems many people have been wising up to overpaying for inferior service and are transfering their domains.

    The fastest growing registrar happens to be GoDaddy.com, where I moved all my domains to several years ago.

    You have to keep watching that bang/buck ratio in registrars, webhosting - in all things. You stay with one provider of anything too long and chances are you'll end up paying higher static prices for the convenience of not looking around at the competition once in a while...

    --
    Power to the Peaceful
    1. Re:Gaining/Losing registrars by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      I don't know why everyone loves GoDaddy so much. They charge an extra $9/year for WHOIS protection, which really adds up if you have a lot of domains. Meanwhile, sites RegisterFLY offers WHOIS protection for $0.99-$2.50/year (depending on the sale) and NameCheap is offering it for free right now. Both are eNom resellers. And RegisterFLY offers an alternating spam-filtered e-mail address with every domain at no extra charge, which rocks.

      The one time I registered a domain with GoDaddy, it seemed very difficult to add/modify DNS records. Why? If I didn't want DNS, I'd go with one of those $6.49 registrars.

  3. Re:Best registrars? by Eric+Giguere · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've used LowCostDomains.ca for a few. They charge $17.45 (Canadian kilopennies) for .ca domains, haven't had any problems pointing them to the DNS my web host (KGB Internet Solutions, also Canadian and great for Java hosting, though the name may former residents of the Soviet Union a pause) maintains.

    Eric
    Check your HTTP headers here