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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 am so jaded.
/godaddy believer now
The first thing I thought about when I saw this... what is VeriSign trying to pull now.
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."
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
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?
Somebody told you you were one in a million?? I laugh at you lack of uniqueness. I have one domain name... This means I am one in 66.3 million.... Go figure... :)
Apple built a platform for their ideas, Google built one for everyone's.
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.
"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.
IMHO the greatest internet-related quote ever, and one that I will post at any remotely relevant opportunity (forgive my bad memory for inaccuracies)
Karl: "Hey Homer! You got the #1 non-adult-oriented website!"
Lenny: "...which makes it 10 trillionth overall!"
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The number of domain names used for hosting adult content, was reported to have hit the 50 million mark.
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
Well, the second biggest TLD in numbers of registered domains is the .de domain for some time now (I don't know for how long... one year, two years ?). And both .uk and .nl aren't small fish either.
The DENIC (the registry for the german .de TLD) has an interesting
graph showing the number of domains in the ten biggest TLDs (in english).
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.
Wasn't it policy back in the dark ages (I seem to remember it from '88-'90 or so) that you could get one (and only one) domain name per company. headache.com and constipation.com wouldn't both go to Johnson & Johnson or some other drug company; you'd have just johnson-and-johnson.com.
Is this a false memory? I also seem to recall that microsoft.com had just launched its MSN service to go head-to-head with Prodigy, CompuServe, and AOL. And to get the domain name msn.com, didn't they create a small business just down the street from the main campus, something like Micro Solutions Networking (MSN)? I swear I could remember doing a whois on it in like '92 or so and seeing the highly suspicious street address.
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.
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
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.
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.
EricCheck your HTTP headers here
we now expect that of that 66 million, 90% are probably like this and not as they should be.
A firewall can not protect you from yourself. Turn off what you do not need. Do not use the firewall to do your work.
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SO,
FACT: With 86,400 seconds in one day, and 365.25 days in one year, there are 31,557,600 seconds in one year.
Under the supposition that a program were written that would allow one second to auto-load a URL into a browser, an average of 5 seconds to resolve and load a page on a standard ADSL connection, and one second to view the loaded page before repeating the process (7 seconds total), ~66,300,000 web pages could be viewed in 464,100,000 seconds.
Dividing these seconds by the seconds in one year indicates that it would take roughly 14.7 years to perform a check on every website.
Of course, this assumes that I Don't have to take roughly 31.3 seconds to close all the pop-up windows that the google toolbar missed, and that I have all the URLs.
(My God, I have too much time on my hands.)
Well, my next post will be in 2019, I suppose. ;)
On our network more often I see them for irc kiddies than anything else (vainity domains). They will take the free or low cost offer of a registrar and then let it expire since by the time its time to pay, they are bored with it.
.tv, they might get watching.tv and make their irc domain
t v
like
was.screwing.your.wife.while.you.were.watching.
and other silly shit like that.
ICANN *should* do something, but I'm afraid they won't. What would be interesting, is get the popular popup blockers to also block domains that don't have any real information, such as Domain Parked websites, domains for sale messages, etc and get rid of all the damn traffic they grab by parking the domains. Or go back to making domains $150 a registration, instead of 6 bucks (maybe opening up registration to everyone was a _bad_ move). I would certainly think twice about registering 100 domains at $150 each, but 6 bucks?
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