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Sometimes its good to try and visualise the the domain industry. Here is a list showing the relative size by numbers of domains registered) of the the worlds largest registrars.
1 Go Daddy Software – 16,322,370
2 eNom – 7,177,819
3 Network Solutions – 6,648,715
4 Tucows – 5,717,664
5 Melbourne IT – 4,404,239
6 Schlund+Partner – 3,229,846
7 Register.com – 2,756,129
8 Wild West Domains – 2,244,088
9 Moniker Online Services – 1,967,207
10 DomainDoorman – 1,845,374
11 Belgiumdomains, LLC – 1,773,561
12 CapitolDomains – 1,756,673
13 PublicDomainRegistry.com – 1,560,582
14 Intercosmos Media – 1,289,904
15 OnlineNIC, Inc. – 1,096,358
16 Key-Systems GmbH – 1,085,710
17 Dotster – 1,068,231
18 Dotregistrar.com – 962,333
19 NameKing.com – 934,874
20 RegisterFly.com, Inc. – 900,355
21 DomainDiscover – 867,274
22 Fabulous.com Pty Ltd – 850,772
23 Xin Net Corp – 699,720
24 Cronon AG – 653,746
25 Compana LLC – 652,607
26 ItsYourDomain.com – 610,333
27 joker.com – 583,728
28 DomainSite.com – 537,920
29 PSI-USA, Inc. – 507,194
30 Name.net LLC – 480,991
The sheer scale of Tasting and Kiting means the figures at some registrars are subject to much greater change than happened a couple of years ago.
Edit: New post showing the latest list of largest registrars
In a well written mainstream media article the Financial Times takes a look at the ownership of domains.
Reuters is reporting Microsoft is to buy privately held Tellme Networks Inc., a speech technology company, to bolster its communications push and enhance searches over mobile phones.
Terms were not disclosed but undisclosed sources valued the Tellme at over $800m
“Mobile search is going to be a huge market,” said Morningstar analyst Toan Tran. “Search on mobile phones is still up for grabs and Microsoft is a big believer in voice being an interface for mobile phones.”
Dan Nunes (Engineer) and Shane Keats (Research Analyst) at McAfee SiteAdvisor have produced a paper analysing the global distribution of malware, and produced some very nice graphical/visual risk assessment analysis.
The Nokia Ad Service is launching this week in Europe and will be available globally in the second half of 2007.
The Nokia Ad service
“As advertisers struggle to reach personalized targeting with traditional media such as print and TV, mobile advertising is becoming an increasingly attractive channel for brands,” said Tom Henriksson, Director of Nokia Ad Service at Nokia Emerging Business Unit. “We have completed a number of pilot campaigns with advertisers and mobile publishers for testing the Nokia ad serving technology and consumer experience. The feedback has been very positive from all parties.”
Nokia Advertising Connector
“With Nokia Advertising Connector we are partnering with newspaper publishers, other traditional media companies, aggregators, platform companies, operators and internet companies to help them serve their current advertisers by offering easy access to a mobile audience” says Matthew Snyder, Head of Business Development, Nokia Multimedia, Advertising Business Program. “We have an aggregator interface for plugging partners’ platforms into the Connector – Nokia being in the role of platform service provider. Think of the Connector as a one-stop delivery point with intelligence”.
Google Maps has teamed up with BMW to allow their customers in Germany to send business listings found on Google Maps Deutschland directly to cars enabled with the BMW Assist service.
Verisgn has released it’s Domain Name Industry Brief report analysing the 4th quarter of 2006. It contains some very interesting statistics
of 66,871,556 domains analysed
23% were parked sites
63% had live sites
14% had no website
At the end of 2006 2.1 million .com and .net registrations were added per month growing the total .com and .net registrations to over 65 million. And the total registrations for all gTLDs and ccTLDs exceeded 120 million for the first time.
The largest TLDs by size .com, .net, .de, .uk, .org and .info
GPM Group 