DMOZ ODP data real numbers

This is sad.

[Marcos]

- Number of sites/urls in ODP Dump:
3.432.089

- Number of no-duplicated sites/urls in ODP Dump:
3.122.622

- Number of unique domain names:
1.884.225

- Arround 10% of those domain names are redirections to spam sites, afiliates, and link farms. We think that maybe a similar number of ODP sites are actually expired domain names, registered by spammers.

The existing ODP data needs some serious workout, and the domain count is way too low: There are arround 39 million registered domain names out there, waiting to be clasified.

This is sad.

[vroom]

I'm one of those that is frustrated with DMOZ. It is
getting hard to say for sure that something can't be found
elsewhere... there is a lot out there.

However, I believe the reason I can't get listed is
that the categories I want have no editors! Perhaps that
means nobody is interested in spamming that area? Maybe I
should become an editor and rearrange things...

A query based on a response above...

> If another Directory is going to come along and make
> a dent in the Yahoo/Dmoz game it's not going to be
> because of more indexed pages.
>
> It's going to be due to an even higher standard in
> editorial policy and better maintanence of it's
> existing links.

How do you go about getting the content? You can't just
scoop DMOZ or another directory. Unless you can pay mondo
dollars who is going become an editor to help you grow a
competitive offering to DMOZ right now? Perhaps there is
another way to go about it?