2005 Looks Like Record Year for Net Growth

miller60 writes "Netcraft reports that the Internet grew by 2.7 million sites in June, the second-largest gain in the history of its Web Server Survey. With growth of 10 million sites in the first half of the year, 2005 should easily surpass the existing annual growth record of 16 million sites from the dot-com boom year of 2000. The growth of small business web sites, blogs, domain name businesses and online advertising are all cited as factors in the strong gains."

Comments

Hmmph

[mcrbids]

Just the other day we were being told that the Internet was broken and needed replacing. Then, we find that it is growing very nicely, only to have this article confirm it...

I mean, is this where I toot my own horn and say: I told you so!!?!?

Server trends & commercial blogs

[Sv-Manowar]

Its interesting that the percentage of Microsoft powered servers has risen 0.27 from the last statistics, perhaps suggesting that improvements to the latest versions of IIS are increasing use. As for the overall growth, the use of blogs as a commercial tool seems to really be coming into age and this may prove interesting as to filtering and blocking spam or excessively promotional blogs from search engines and feed spiders.

Personally, I perfer quality to quantity!

[busman]

Anyone seen a good new site in '05?

How many are from China?

[r_jensen11]

With China's rapid pace of catching up, I'm guessing that the proportion to new sites in China as opposed to other countries is significantly higher.

Re:How many are from China?

[DigiShaman]

Without a doubt, the Chinese government is oppressive (an understatement) and stomps on every core facet of freedom known to man. That said however, I'm rather optimistic about the future of China. Given these new rules and regulations being churned out by the CCP, I see this as an act of desperation by those trying to cling onto power and control over the masses.

I know a girl that is currently living in Shanghai whom I speak with on Skype on regular bases. From what I've learned, there is a major culture divide. Everyone in their late 30s and below has embraced the philosophies of the western world in regards to freedom of expression. Even the taboo of sexuality is starting to make its rounds on the Chinese side of the Internet. Basically, China is on the verge of a revolution. And if the CCP is not careful, we can soon expect to witness its demise.

Of course, this will not happen until AFTER they try and invade Taiwan in order muster up Patriotism among the Chinese people. But in fact, the exact opposite may end up starting the revolution in China.

Re:Sites or hostnames?

[Kinky Bass Junk]

How hard is it to point multiple domains at one site? Not very.

Yes, but in the same respect, how hard is it to have multiple sites per domain name? Not very.

They probably even out quite nicely, in fact it is quite possibly a lot higher than the figures given, with that in mind.

Conflicting statistics

[bogaboga]

Over here at http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/data/200506/ index.html, it shows Apache simply increased its market share in the month heading up to July 2005. This reminds me of what statistics can be: They can be made/manipulated into anything the presenter wants to project. So who is telling lies here? SecuritySpace or Netcraft or both?

I really hate domain squatters...

[seanvaandering]

I can relate completely to this point. Last month I wanted to register vaandering.com - so I waited, patiently until the domain expired. Then there's the extra 15 days or so where the original owner can get last dibs on the domain before it gets tossed back into the pile. Well I went on holidays and came back to seeing my domain REGISTERED again! Imagine my surprise when I see it registered to BuyDomains! A well-known domain squatting business. Now this is my legal name, whether or not they want to display it as vaandeRing.com - they're sole purpose is to try and make a quick grand off domains... Why heres the fine print if your interested in buying a domain from them...

By submitting this price request, I understand that the quoted price will be at least $1,000 and may be over $10,000. The quoted price is a fixed, one-time only fee that will be valid for 7 days. This is not an auction. I understand the pricing terms and am prepared to spend at least $1,000 for this domain.

Isn't this bordering on the illegal? Theres no way im paying $1000 to register my name, its absolutely rediculous, and they advertise that they have over 475,000 'quality' domain names. Good lord...