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Verisign reports on domain names
INTERNET REGISTRAR Verisign says that eleven million new domain names were registered in the last quarter of last year, bringing the total of web addresses to almost 200 million.
According to Verisign's latest Domain Name Industry Brief, there were roughly 3.7 million new web addresses registered each month during 2009.
The .com and .net domains saw the biggest gains and Verisign said that there are now just under 97 mllion registered. It said this represents a seven per cent increase from the same period last year. On average there were some 2.4 million domains registered per month in the last quarter of last year. The renewal rate for the fourth quarter was 71 per cent, a 0.5 per cent gain over the last quarter of 2008.
Verisign said that its Domain Name System's query load was 52 billion per day, double what it was this time last year.
Verisign is celebrating twenty fives years of the Internet with a website, which you can enjoy here. µ
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the powers that be obviously dont give a hoot about the opinion of its loyal base of readers as there has been nothing but silence since the poll got closed...
is that the sound of the inq staff sticking their heads in the sand and shouting "lalalala" hoping that it will all go away?
The inquirer has really gone downhill, this layout really sucks. I hope they fix it! There are more ads on the first page of this site then all of engadget + tomshardware combined. This site reminds me of what happened to tomshardware. When they changed over to the layout I stopped going to their site. I guess it's time to move on.
Bet 10 bucks that most of those registrations are from domain parking companies like GoDaddy and sedoparking. These guys register hundreds of catchy domain names and keep them idle, just so they can sell them to users for an increased price sometime in the future (or even worse, for a monthly fee).
ICANN has admitted that GoDaddy, Sedoparking and the related net mobsters are among their biggest registrars, so these guys are not even trying to hide.
I REALLY can't believe people are actually making business with these dorks (they recently have become so rich they can even afford to sponsor indy car drivers).
Do all these users even bother to ask what will happen to their domain name in case they decide to switch to another hosting company? (GoDaddy also does hosting). Answer: GoDaddy will keep your domain name and fill it with ads, and then you will have to find another domain name and regain all your visitors from scratch.
But I guess that such a forward looking thinking is waay beyond Average Joe...
PS: For the smart people among us, always make sure you own the domain name.