Situational awareness (AKA knowing what the heck is happening around you) is invaluable in many high-risk fields; soldiers and racecar drivers, for example, need to know what’s next to and behind them at all times. This week’s article, which touches on registered domain names, will hopefully provide you with some similar info.
Verisign, which takes care of things relating to the .com and .net top-level domains, recently released a quarterly report. A Royal Pingdom post states, “Counting all TLDs there are now 184 million registered domain names (to be precise, this was the number at the midpoint of 2009).”
The post later continues, “There are now 74.4 million country code TLDs (ccTLDs), which means that 40% of all registered domain names are ccTLDs.”
And finally, “An interesting trend revealed by the Verisign report is that the renewal rate for domain names has been decreasing for some time now, at least for .com and .net domain names.”
So there’s an idea of what’s going on in the wide world. Given how massive some of these numbers are, the situation may sound scary, but if you think about how many actual competitors you’ve got, it should hopefully become apparent that you’re already head and shoulders above many, many things without even trying.
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September 30th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
The renewal rate for domain names now in decline is a great trend for everyone who has an active website and need every advantage s/he can afford. So this information is really encouraging and even motivating as long a we keep renewing our domain names from our active websites.