Recession Weighs on Web-Address Growth

[Burano]

Maybe sexy Super Bowl ads aren’t helping the domain-name business as much as we thought.

Domain registrar VeriSign’s latest report on the state of the industry shows that while more than 10.1 million new Web addresses were registered in the fourth quarter, this was a 17% drop from the year-earlier period.

The report, which drew from data provided by VeriSign, domain-data provider ZookNIC and the nonprofit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, also showed a yearlong decline: new domain registrations averaged 11.9 million in 2008, compared with 12.2 million in 2007. See rest...

 

[shockie]

the drop could also be due to other domaining policies that have been in place lately, but it's no surprise that the recession is playing its part in this too.

 

[frankiethepet]

There is a HUUUGE amounts of really incredible dumb regs. Just look at the drop lists,,, there are so stupid names that you cant believe it... People realise after a while that half of their regs are totally idiotic and they will drop them. Especially now in these times... people will drop all their bad and half bad regs, they will only save their best.
The numbers of domains getting dropped this year will be crazy, now when adsense, ppc revenue goes downhill there will be no use for keeping all those names.
I mean when the domain business really bloomed up everyone wanted a piece of it... i regged so many bad names my first month... its pretty much the same for everybody... look at the newbies here, they have so stupid names... and i was the same when i started. They will all get dropped in these bad times.