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?

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.