Web Officially Doubled in 3 years

[Brett_Tabke]

[news.netcraft.com...]

There are now more than 80 million web sites on the Internet, as the April 2006 survey received responses from 80,655,992 sites, an increase of 3.1 million hostnames from March 2006. The web has doubled in size in the past three years, as the survey hit the 40 million mark in April 2003.

This month's survey brings one of the largest one-month swings in the history of the web server market, as Microsoft gains 4.7 percent share while Apache loses 5.9 percent. The shift is driven by changes at domain registrar Go Daddy, which has just migrated more than 3.5 million hostnames from Linux to Windows. Go Daddy, which had been the world's largest Linux host, is now the world's largest Windows Server 2003 host, as measured by hostnames. The company said it will shift a total of 4.4 million hostnames to Windows Server 2003.

[StupidScript]

What can we say? Bravo!

I mean about the doubling part ... the MS part sounds silly and irrelevant. GoDaddy?!? Sorry. Who cares? Crap domains (again, sorry to those who are legit) don't a baseline make.

[edited by: StupidScript at 2:49 am (utc) on May 25, 2006]

[vincevincevince]

I wonder where the what Bob Parsons is terming 'domain kiting' fits into the netcraft results? Have they taken measures to specifically exclude domains which are not fully paid for?

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

Three years eh?

Wasn't that about the time that Adsense was launched? ;)

[coopster]

A related discussion on the same news release that may be of interest:

Microsoft Server gains 4.7% market share of hosted domains. [webmasterworld.com]

[celgins]

The MS part sounds silly and irrelevant.

Hmmm. Why do you reach this conclusion? A large shift in web server platforms is sure to have an effect.

[Brett_Tabke]

lol - thanks coop!

[StupidScript]

Why do you reach this conclusion?

One registrar got a good deal from Microsoft and that skews the whole dataset.

One.

GoDaddy.

Pure PR. Any reasonable analyst would temper that ONE data element so it's impact was brought into perspective. As far as the reporter's analysis goes, simply dumping that ONE business's choice of server brand into the whole dataset unmitigated tells us that the data analysis is flawed, ergo sum ... "silly and irrelevant".

The "report" is a PR opportunity that was exploited by Microsoft when it landed a big client. That's all it is.

[JAB Creations]

Good to see the internet is growing. My main question though is what about the quality of the internet? Is it improving or the opposite?

I dealt with GoDaddy once and their site is junk (well more-so then the average domain registrtion site).

John