at the end of March 2006 .coms crossed the 50,000,000 mark (older thread)
at the end of March 2008 .coms crossed the 75,000,000 mark (old thread)
today , a year later , it crossed the 80,000,000 mark for the first time
(80,055,109 .coms , source: DomainTools InternetStatistics)
for the Mar06-Mar08 period ...
registrations were up 12,500,000 per year on average
registrations were rising at 34,200 per day on average (1 new reg every 2.5 seconds)
for the Mar08-Mar09 period ...
registrations were up about 5,000,000 per year
registrations were rising at 13,699 per day on average (1 new reg every 6.3 seconds)
while on March 2008 it seemed that total registrations would cross the 100,000,000 mark in 2 years time on March 2010 (or possibly even earlier than that) ... on March 2009 , one whole year later , they have covered only 5,000,000 of the 25,000,000 needed
factors that contribute to the decline in the .com registrations' growth rate :
- the economy
- the 2 VeriSign price hikes (macroeconomically they affect total registration numbers)
- new extensions
- growth of some ccTLDs
- the high number of .coms in comparison to the amount of dictionary words (there are about 100,000 words in the common dictionary , rising to 300,000 if you include more obscure terms) ... with "only" 100,000 terms it is going to be more difficult (after many millions of registrations) to find word combinations and/or made-up words that make-sense/are-worth-registering
in other news , .cn has passed .de in total number of registrations
(source: denic.de GlobalStatistics)
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