Does anyone know of any reliable data on the current registration rate for domains by the day, week, or month? Even more importantly, has anyone come across data indicating the decreasing availability of domains and proposed solutions?
I know that the second question is difficult to answer because any 99 letters garbled together will be available, but there must be some sense from those in the know, how the domain shortage is going to play out...
Looking at .org & .info for increases in the total number of registration (New - Deletes)
This week Sun - Sun .org 4977 .info 76891
Last week Sun - Sun .org 36598 .info = 54132
[verisign.com...]
Briefly:
Top Level Domain (TLD) registration growth reached 31 percent year-over-year, and 6 percent over most recent quarter
Country code TLD (ccTLD) growth of 33 percent year-over-year, and 5 percent quarter-over-quarter
New ccTLD registrations were up 86 percent year-over-year
10.7 million total new registrations worldwide in Q1 2007
Total worldwide base of 128 million domain name registrations
7 million registrations for new .com and .net domain names in Q1 2007
It is very wrong for you to think that Domain Names may one day run out. In fact, as more and more domain extensions become available, the number of available domain names increase exponentially. There are literally hundreds of different extentions available today and who knows how many more will be available in a few years from now. It's not too hard to get single dictionary words with some extensions.
Even if we only had one extension available today, there would still be millions of free domain names, that is of course, as long as you didn't mind calling your shiny new website www.wndngfc6f74hfbvgfyru8r85.com.
England - co.uk
India .in or co.in
China .cn
Japan .jp
Korea .kr
France .fr
If you are in the US you hardly see these extensions but if you are outside the US you realize there are options.
