Comments on: The dominance of .com domains http://www.16thletter.com/2008/05/06/the-dominance-of-com-domains/ thoughts on how the Internet intersects with work, play & life Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:08:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: nmw http://www.16thletter.com/2008/05/06/the-dominance-of-com-domains/#comment-5585 nmw Tue, 06 May 2008 19:37:16 +0000 http://www.16thletter.com/?p=379#comment-5585 From last year's Domain Report (Verisign): The first quarter ended with 69 million .com and .net domain name registrations in the base2. This represents a six percent increase in the first quarter 2007 compared to the fourth quarter 2006 and a 28 percent increase year over year. versus The first quarter of 2007 ended with 45.7 million ccTLDs, a 33 percent increase over the same quarter last year and a five percent increase over the fourth quarter 2006. In general, .COM is oversubscribed (there is hardly any rational reason, for example, why there are many more .COM registrations than .NET registrations -- since it's the same company providing the registry services). Apparently .CN is growing far faster than anything else. From last year’s Domain Report (Verisign):

The first quarter ended with 69 million .com and .net domain name registrations in the base2. This represents a six percent increase in the first quarter 2007 compared to the fourth quarter 2006 and a 28 percent increase year over year.

versus

The first quarter of 2007 ended with 45.7 million ccTLDs, a 33 percent increase over the same quarter last year and a five percent increase over the fourth quarter 2006.

In general, .COM is oversubscribed (there is hardly any rational reason, for example, why there are many more .COM registrations than .NET registrations — since it’s the same company providing the registry services).

Apparently .CN is growing far faster than anything else.

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