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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. Yoo-hoo!! by ceeam · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What a milestone. Or not? Is it any wonder that now there are more registered names than before? Would you expect inverse? Let's post this kind of stuff every month!

    And then - I'm sure they are counting only 2nd level names, right? And country-specific names are not included, are they? informatics.uni.edu and economics.uni.edu are counted as one? the-company.com and thecompany.com are counted as two?

    Finally - what constitutes a "live" web-site? "Under construction" counts? And why a web-site? Is there a rules that every resolved domain name should have a web-server at port 80?

  2. Registered... but not in use... by 88NoSoup4U88 · · Score: 4, Interesting
    The dirtiest trick in the book concerning domain names is how some companies use the "Is this domain still available"-forms to register that domainname you asked for, right after you enquired about it.

    I myself have been dumb enough to first enquire about a few (nosoup4u.com/nosoup4u.net) ; only to find out the hard way it had been registered only a couple days later.

    If the site(s) would at least be used, it wouldn't be too disturbing to me... but since it's only registered, to be bought over by the highest bidder...

    I also know it's very hard to regulate this ; and even harder to 'check' if someone is really 'using' a site ; As , after all, someone could be using it (without my knowledge) purely to use it for, eg. FTP transfers, and not a website.

    Still, it gives me a sour taste in my mouth.

  3. Re:Best registrars? by gtoomey · · Score: 4, Interesting
    $5.99 at 1and1.com They also offer free DNS and allow you to point 5 additional domains to their DNS servers for free.

    .info are FREE there at the moment. Good control panel too.

  4. Re:Don't believe by ultrasonik · · Score: 5, Interesting

    One note about Go Daddy. I checked the availability of a domain name on Go Daddy. It was available. Then a couple months later I went to register it and it had been bought by a squatter. This has happened to me not once, but twice. Is Go Daddy selling their whois lookups to squatters?

  5. .eu by smacktits · · Score: 3, Interesting

    country code top-level domains are becoming more widely accepted.

    Speaking of country code TLDs, anyone know for sure when .eu will become available? I've been waiting for that for a year now.