Verisign has jsut released their first domain industry report (.pdf) for 2009. 10.1 million new domains were registered in Q4 2008 giving a 17% year on year growth from Q4 2007.
The Moniker Live Auction in Holywood as just sold $604,700* of domain names.
.. 20000 errors.com
…. 3500 smokin.com
…. 1000 vote.info
…. 1500 heatingequipment.com
…. 3500 rumours.com
…. 5000 europe.travel
…. 5000 laptopskins.com
…. 1500 famouschefs.com
.. 15000 antidepressant.com
.. 10000 contact.me
…. 7500 petbirds.com
…. 5000 devotion.com
…. 3000 free.travel
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How big is the Internet? Is a question which is often asked. There isn’t a single answer but there are lots of measures which give a feel for the scale of things out there. Pingdom, have an interesting blog post which draws together quite a few statistics that measure the size of the Internet in differnet ways, Things like
- How many emails are sent around the world?
- How many websites are there in the world?
- How many web servers are there?
- How many domain names are there?
- How many users are there? And where are those users?
The Pingdom summary of internet statistics from various sources provides some very interesting stats. While over at Physorg.com there is a more theoretical look at Internet growth.
YouTube has created two central hubs for every member of Congress and every member of the Senate. The new hub pages include a map of the United States which allows users to quickly access video from both senators and representatives.
The latest Nielsen Online report (.pdf) shows the most popular online retailers for the Q4, 2008 Christmas period (October to December) in the UK, and how they and the key online retail sectors fared compared to Christmas 2007.
The top 10 Online retailers as ranked by Nielsen Online together with their Year on Year (2007 to 2008) Growth percentages are
1 Amazon ……………… 18%
2 Argos…………………… 32%
3 Tesco…………………… 15%
4 Play.com……………… 35%
5 Marks & Spencer… 46%
6 Littlewoods ………… 66%
7 Currys ………………… 35%
8 ASDA …………………… 53%
9 John Lewis ………… 31%
10 Next …………………… 38%
Renesys the internet intelligence provider has an interesting blog post looking at top Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Renesys is good reference source because their reports are based on hard facts and objective analysis.
Here are the top 13 in terms of globally, geography and market segment.
1 … Sprint
2 … Level 3
3 … Verizon
4 … NTT
5 … Global Crossing
6 … Savvis
7 … AT&T
8 … Telia
9 … Tata
10… Qwest
11… Cogent
12… China Telecom
13… Tiscali
See the Renesys blog post of the report here.
Google have just annouced they are extending AdSense for Domains to all publishers
The product will be rolled out incrementally starting with English speakers in North America exending to other languages and regions in the future. More information at the Adsense Help Center.
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Google has launched a new way to personalise Google internet searches – Google SearchWiki. Google SearchWiki allows users to promote results they like and delete search results they do not like. Results can be promoted to the top of the listing and allow users to comment on them.
This is a fundamental change which the Lonodon Times is reporting will be rolled out in the next few hours, and the biggest update to Google’s massively popular search engine for more than a year. And a change which Google is calling it the next step in the evolution of online search.
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