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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. 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...

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