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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."
I wonder how many have actual content or don't redirect to another site. There are so many names out that that are bought up by corporations that all point to the same ste and so many others that try to capitalize on user stupidity and are just mispellings of popular cites.
Not everything is analogous to cars. Car analogies rarely work.
I bet most of this year's domains have been registered by the automated scripts which watch for domain expiry and jump in and register the domain from underneath the owner.
I've seen this happen in no more than a day. It's very annoying, and means people have to move their sites elsewhere and deal with the old site now being at best a page full of adverts and at worst a redirect to some weird porn.
I don't know about the rest of the world, but here in the Netherlands our country-code TLD (.nl) is far more accepted than .com or .net. People have more trust in it because this TLD can only be registered by "legit" companies.
I'm trying to improve my English. Please correct me on any spelling/grammar errors in this post.
Maybe it's because the old domains never die. These god awful search sites and other squatters just buy them all up. I use to own the domain name jeremylogan.com (my name), since I let it die two different domain squatters have bought it up as soon as it was available. I'm really beginning to think we ought to have to justify our domain names in some fashion.
If you need a little help being convinced just check out http://manpage.com/ and tell me THAT URL couldn't be put to some real use.
Jeremy Logan's Website.
Google - Searching 8,058,044,651 web pages
8bn/65m is 123 and a bit. So that means that all the websites average out at 123 (cached) pages. When you think the BBC boasts half a million pages, and sites such as zdnet, cnet etc have hundreds of thousands, just think how many sites only have 1 page. What a waste of domain!
Get paid to search..It's geniune and
The EU is a large association of countries and is quite justified in having a TLD. I would have no problems with allotting TLDs to South America, North America, Asia, Australasia or other regions.
.info, .biz, .tv and all the other crappy ones out there.
I can't say the same for
I think those figures are misleading. What about those registrars that automatically generate a home page for you? Are those included in the tally? And what about squatters that just put up a generic search page? There's too many variables for those numbers to be very useful.
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With the increasing number of people switching to broadband, and the availability of personal servers like The Net-Box, obtaining and using a domain for one's home is not only easy and affordable but also reasonable. I believe that a big share of the domain registrations is for home/personal use and that the numbers will continue to increase.
Yeah, I went to a used car lot once and the same thing happened. I saw this car that was a sweet ride for a good price. When I came back a couple months later to buy it, it was gone. I think the dealer probably put out extra flyers on it since it was now obvious it was popular, and could thus charge more. Bastard.