Domain names registrations hit 112 million in Oct 2006
In the 3rd quarter of 2006, over 112 million domains names have been registered worldwide, according to the recent Verisign industry brief. Apart from the TLDs (top level domains), the ccTLDs (country code top level domain names) also experienced great growth. On average, 2 million .com and .net domain name registrations were registered each month. This shows that more and more websites will be sprouting online, and have you started your Internet Business too?
If asked whether you should take a .com or a local .com such as .com.my (Malaysia), .com.sg (Singapore), or .com.hk (Hong Kong), which one would you prefer? If you already have a business / company presence in that country, it’ll be advisable to also take the local domain name too, in order to protect your identity locally.
Local / country domains ccTLDs accounted to about 40 million domain names. Worldwide, there are 248 ccTLD extensions, but the Top 10 ccTLDs still maintained the higher growth. Can you guess what are the top 10 domain name extensions?
1. .de (Germany)
2. .uk (United Kingdom)
3. .eu (European Union)
4. .nl (Netherlands)
5. .it (Italy)
6. .cn (China)
7. .ar (Argentina)
8. .us (United States)
9. .be (Belgium)
10. .br (Brazil)
In a survey conducted by Verisign, 62% of domain names were linked to a live website, meaning a website with multiple pages, and real contents, while 24% were just parked 1 page websites. This means there were about 14% of domain names that did not have websites yet.
Over 21 billion searches for .com and .net domain names were performed each day on domain registrar sites like Verisign, so the good domain names are selling like hot cakes. To check whether your choice of domain name is still available, go to www.FreeDomainsRegistration.com today.
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