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Total IDN count update: 550k (com + net), July 2006, compiled by sramuk. of IDNF
Four months after owen of Domainsite quantified total number of com and net IDNs to be ~425k, I was able to recalculate it to have grown to 550k.
Thats about 30% growth or an annualised 90% growth
P.S. Instead of averaging the code points like owen did, I tried to identify the first non-latin unicode character in the domain to determine the script. This might have caused the dips in some langauges (or is it drops?). I am not sure if I have to separately count the still registered testbet bq race code domains and if that has impacted the results.
Four months after owen of Domainsite quantified total number of com and net IDNs to be ~425k, I was able to recalculate it to have grown to 550k.
Thats about 30% growth or an annualised 90% growth
Code:
Unicode Script July March Growth
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Han 208063 114704 81%
Hangul 163270 157612 4%
Latin 113136 111660 1%
Katakana 26852 18198 48%
Cyrillic 11397 6490 76%
Arabic 7021 4327 62%
Hiragana 6505 4457 46%
Hebrew 3402 2105 62%
Greek 2652 1854 43%
Common symbols
/and Other 2587 1823 42%
Thai 2147 669 221%
Devanagari 1966 1137 73%
Tamil 391 139 181%
Gurmukhi 193 46 320%
Gujarati 179 76 136%
Bengali 223 174 28%
Telugu 142 94 51%
Kannada 120 78 54%
Georgian 68 80 -15%
Ethiopic 68 77 -12%
Armenian 46 37 24%
Malayalam 34 12 183%
Oriya 6 12 -50%
Tibetan 6 50 -88%
Khmer 9 2 350%
Lao 8 2 300%
Myanmar 3 8 -63%
Runic 3 2 50%
Sinhala 2 0 0%
Canadian Aborg 3 16 -81%
Cherokee 1 3 -67%
Yi 1 1 0%
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Total 550504 425945 29.24%P.S. Instead of averaging the code points like owen did, I tried to identify the first non-latin unicode character in the domain to determine the script. This might have caused the dips in some langauges (or is it drops?). I am not sure if I have to separately count the still registered testbet bq race code domains and if that has impacted the results.
