Domain Name Statistics

Domain name statistics provide recent details and estimates of the domain market industry. It is a reliable source, which helps you to get a clear idea regarding the currently registered names, and those that are active, expired, transferred, deleted, names on hold, and all such related details. Domain name market trends show a steady growth not only in the number of total registrations but also in that of new registrations.

Statistical survey reports on domain names are mainly carried out by different organizations. These reports provide daily domain industry news and statistically valid information. Usually, several years of survey results, containing analysis and graphs are revealed in the survey reports.

The number of domain registrations has shown an excellent growth during the period 1991-1997, between 1600% and 850 % per year. It has achieved an upward growth of 150% per year over the years from 1998 to 2001. The period from 2002-2006 has shown a progressive but steady growth at the rate of 25 % a year.

The survey report of Verisign's Domain Name Industry Brief of March 2007, found that about 60 million new domain names were registered during late 2003, and this has doubled to around 120 million domain names by late 2006. During 2005, the number of registrations for new domain names was around 80 million. It is recorded that the registration for international character domain names had achieved a growth rate of 89% at the end of 2006.

The .com extension remains the largest and most popular top level domain in terms of the number of overall domain registrations. On the web, you can view a number of good websites providing recent lists and statistics of domains in all available acronyms including .com, .net, .biz, .gov, .us, .org, .info and more.

Data concerning country code top level domain registrations is also available. In some sites, you can see detailed statistics of domain names in useful graphical summaries scaled up to provide the correct data of active, inactive, parked and redirected domains by year, region, and registrar stats. Most of the online domain name statistics reports cost a few hundred dollars but some are available as a free source.