75,000,000 .coms

[Earthian]

2 years ago , on 23/03/06 , I posted this thread that .coms reached 50,000,000 in number



today .coms have reached another milestone ...

75,000,000​

I would also like to note that 3 more TLDs have already passed the 10 Million mark


.de (11,879,503)
.net (11,177,664)
.cn (10,544,939)

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[Earthian]

seojunkie - that's why I put that wink emoticon in my post too lol








Red Rock , cache - it is rumoured that Frank Schilling (SevenMile) who is living in the Cayman Islands has 100,000+ domains

therefore while the average domains/person for Cayman Islands would be ~10 ... I think Frank Schilling actually has most of them (maybe also there are some offshore companies over there ?) and the rest of the population has only very few lol








Mark - wonder if the 100,000,000 domain milestone will be reached before or after the 2 years (that were needed for the previous 25,000,000)








frankiethepet - just saw your post before I pressed submit-post ... see the description right underneath ...








looking through the domain numbers of the countries from the webhosting.info link I think it refers to the 5 biggest gTLDs (for which they also have statistics in the other pages)

if you vaguely add up the first ten countries it gets up to ~85 Million >>> let's say equal to the total .coms and .nets ... then the next 10 countries is about another ~6 Milllion >>> let's say equal to total .orgs ... the rest of the countries (for which the domain numbers fall quite sharply) seem to be equal with 7 Million >>> that .info and .biz are together

also it would be quite strange for the Germans to have only 5 Million domains while most of the 11 Million .de logically belong to Germans

or the Chinese to have only 2.8 Million while they probably own many/most of the 10 Million .cn








what is also strange in that list is the number of domains from Bahrain ... Bahrain has a population of http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107313.html]708,573 (on 665 square kilometers) and 987,943 total domains ... passing Italy , Netherlands and Korea ... of course they also have a per capita of $20,500 and 11 Billion in oil exports lol


also , Vatican City with 911 population (in 0.44 square kilometer) has 120,311 domains (33rd in the list , above many much larger countries)

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[InternetMoney]

"a regular English dictionary has about 100,000 words "

Lets say there are 100,000 commonly used words, combinations of the words. There are how many combinations with LLL.com and LLLL.com, add in ones with numbers like zip codes, and other ways to make a domain sound good.

Here is the big question. How many .com's do you think there are if you only count what would pass for quality by a reasonable person? Domains with words and numbers that make sense. Exclude all of the trademarked names that have no value to anyone else but the one using it and excluding personal names, last names, that few others can use.

There are 456,976 LLLL.com's but many are words. There are only 17,576 LLL.com's. You can add an I or and E to common words and put a number with some words to make a domain name. Even though there are 75 million .com domains how many are truly valuable?

I think there are much less than 75 million good domains, most are taken. I think it would be a stretch to say more than 25 million are good. There are a limited number of decent domain names.

 

[Earthian]

I agree ... there must be millions of .coms that are obscure combinations of words , "badly-made-up" made-up words , strange hyphenated 3/4/5 word combos , etc ... without trying to insult anybody , quite some people probably have regged (and keep renewing) tons of names that probably have very low market value ...



for example use the Domain Search from DomainTools and put a random good keyword (eg. net) and you will see a ton of really strange domains being registered (or being previouly registered)

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[GreenGambler]

for example use the Domain Search from DomainTools and put a random good keyword (eg. net) and you will see a ton of really strange domains being registered (or being previouly registered)

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I use that too and have noticed the same thing, some people reg some really unattractive names.

Thanks for the info Earthian. I didn't realize so many were being registered so often. Imagine what it will be like in another 2, 4, 10, 20 years..

 

[VURG]

50% growth in 2 years. Sounds like the growth is slowing down to me.

 

[GreenGambler]

Here are the top ICANN Registrar Statistics:
http://www.domaintools.com/internet-statistics/registrar-stats.php

They look a bit different than the stats here: http://www.domaintools.com/internet-statistics/ , but I'm not quite sure what the differences are.

From that page I came up with this:

Year | Domains | Registrars
2002 | 30,530,390 | 108
2003 | 35,545,942 | 132
2004 | 46,302,178 | 139
2005 | 60,719,390 | 289
2006 | 80,725,835 | 349
2007 | 95,522,326 | 490

The above looks like a steady increase, except for 06-07. But again I'm not sure if this is only .coms or all or what, it didn't seem to specify.

I came across this site too, that I didn't see before : http://www.registrarstats.com/

 

[Earthian]

GG , VURG -



plus:
- rising internet population
- new ideas/products/words/expressions (eg. the word blog was not even known a couple of years back , now there are half a million domains with the word blog)

minus:
- huge number of word-combinations/made-up-words already regged
- slightly more expensive domains (which macroeconomically can have a certain effect on total numbers)



therefore ... whether .coms will continue to rise with the same high rates is debatable ... but even if the increase rate slows down somewhat , it does not say necessarily say something about the health of the industry ... 75,000,000 .coms are already registered (which is a very big number) ... finding good new/available .com domains has become very difficult lately (and is getting harder and harder) ... the VeriSign price hikes are affecting total registration numbers
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