The Latest Domain Name Statistics
There are some interesting domain name statistics contained within the latest edition of Verisign's quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief [808KB PDF]. I've taken some of the numbers contained within and turned them into graphs, which are shown below:
If you think that people have stopped registering new domain names, think again. At the end of 2003, there were just shy of 60 million domain names registered. By the end of 2006, that number had doubled to 120 million:
A shade more than 3 in 4 names are being renewed; in the last quarter of 2006, the renewal rate was 77%:
Verisign did an analysis of about 67 million .com and .net domains to see what web sites “lived” on them. If sites with multiple web pages are to be considered “live”,
- 63% had “live” sites”
- 23% had “parked” (or were single-page sites)
- 14% had no site at all
There was a big jump in international character domain names — from the end of 2005 to the end of 2006, their number increased by 89%, a near doubling:
For more information, download the Domain Name Industry Brief.