¦ type ¦ websites ¦ web % ¦ total % ¦
¦ A - 373612 - 26.0223 - 21.0975 ¦
¦ B - 82188 - 5.7244 - 4.6411 ¦
¦ D - 46450 - 3.2353 - 2.6230 ¦
¦ F - 96342 - 6.7103 - 5.4403 ¦
¦ H - 310639 - 21.6362 - 17.5414 ¦
¦ N - 3088 - 0.2151 - 0.1744 ¦
¦ P - 106361 - 7.4081 - 6.0061 ¦
¦ R - 275886 - 19.2156 - 15.5790 ¦
¦ S - 8331 - 0.5803 - 0.4704 ¦
¦ U - 4565 - 0.3180 - 0.2578 ¦
¦ W - 126224 - 8.7916 - 7.1277 ¦
¦ X - 2053 - 0.1430 - 0.1159 ¦
A: Active (200 code) /not yet classified.
B: Brand protection registration.
D: refresh in webpage.
F: Forbidden or other 4nn code.
H: Holding page with no content.
N: Duplicate content network of sites.
P: PPC parked.
R: Redirected (301/302 codes).
S: Site is for sale.
U: Site unavailable 127.0.0.1 is not a valid IP etc.
W: Domain aggregation network sites.
X: Porn sites.
These are the preliminary results and the Active website figure is continually being downgraded as holding/PPC/dead pages are being reclassified. The active website figure represents natural website development in the .eu ccTLD.
It would not be unthinkable to see a figure closer to 15% for the number of active .eu websites. I should have an analysis of the .ie ccTLD in the next few days to illustrate what development/holding/parking activity in a real ccTLD looks like compared to .eu ccTLD.
Regards...jmcc
If so how do they stack up against one another?
Do you have data to compare these results to other gTLDs or ccTLDs?I should have a comparative study of .ie ccTLD within the next week. I was planning to do a similar analysis for .info and .biz in the next two weeks. Spidering .com/net/org would produce over 1TB of data so I have to do a bit of planning beforehand. I would expect .eu to more closely resemble .biz or .info gTLD.
The very early stage results for .ie ccTLD (most of the holding pages have not been classified yet) are completely different to .eu:
webtype - websites - web %
A - 56350 - 81.24
F - 1539 - 2.22
H - 2986 - 4.31
P - 845 - 1.22
R - 9199 - 13.26
U - 69 - 0.10
If so how do they stack up against one another?The .ie figures above are very early stage figures but PPC parking in .ie is traditionally low. The number of holding pages may grow perhaps to about 10K or so. I've got a few lists of various EU ccTLDs (about 2M .co.uk doms, 2M .de doms and varying numbers of .fr/nl/be/at/it doms.) that I might run some comparisons on in the next month.
Some of the patterns in .eu are classic gTLD ones, especially the lower active use figure. As a rule, strong ccTLDs will have a higher percentage of active development and usage. Businesses and individuals in a strong ccTLD will tend to use the ccTLD as their primary domain. (The best example being Germany's .de with over 11M domains and Germany's .eu figure of about 797K domains.) In real terms, the .eu ccTLD is not a ccTLD but rather a gTLD.
Regards..jmcc
