[gnso-consumercci-dt] Number of domain names at the end of 2011.

[Rosemary Sinclair <rosemary.sinclair@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all

My head was spinning at the end of last week's chat..even my flat battery 
didn't save me. I've dealt with the phone problem so we shouldn't have that 
problem again.

I also went looking for some metrics to ground my thinking for when we're 
wrestling with past states, future states and counter-factuals!!!

Here they are...multiple sources and differing absolutes....so please feel free 
to suggest a better source or other numbers...

But just in case it helps you too....

Cheers

Rosemary

http://www.verisigninc.com/assets/domain-name-brief-march2012.pdf

90.6m ccTLDs (40%) (Verisign March 2012)
225m TLDs  (Verisign March 2012)

95.5 million – Number of .com domain names at the end of 2011.
13.8 million – Number of .net domain names at the end of 2011.
9.3 million – Number of .org domains names at the end of 2011.
7.6 million – Number of .info domain names at the end of 2011.
2.1 million – Number of .biz domain names at the end of 2011.
128.3m (57% of 225m)



Top 20 TLDs - http://www.domainworldwide.com

1 .COM 21,336,063   Commercial  
2 .DE 5,459,604   Germany / Deutschland  
3 .NET 3,631,270   Network  
4 .CO.UK 3,080,659   UK Commercial  
5 .ORG 2,333,855   Organization  
6 .INFO 828,223   Information  
7 .IT 681,779   Italy  
8 .BIZ 666,399   Business  
9 .NL 617,045   The Netherlands * 
10 .CC 581,147   Cocos (Keeling) Islands * 
11 .TV 473,168   Tuvalu * 
12 .COM.AR 463,571   Argentina  
13 .CH 442,512   Switzerland * 
14 .BR 406,355   Brazil  
15 .CO.KR 403,556   Korea, Republic of (South)  
16 .DK 378,996   Denmark * 
17 .US 315,215   United States  
18 .CA 272,071   Canada  
19 .COM.AU 254,168   Australia Commercial * 
20 .WS 253,029   Samoa

Top 10 ccTLDs have 60% ccTLD registrations between them

Number of top-level domains is 358 some cc not in use
http://www.domainworldwide.com

Generic top level domains (gTLD) 
http://www.registrarstats.com/TLDDomainCounts.aspx Jan2012

.aero  Aviation .017m
.asia  Asia .197m
.biz  Business Organizations 2.2m
.cat  Catalan language and culture
.com  Commercial 103m
.coop  Co-Operative Organizations .011m
.edu.  Education
.gov.  US Government
.info.  Open TLD 7.8m
.int.  International Organizations
.jobs   Jobs
.mil.  US Department of Defense
.mobi   Mobile devices 1m
.museum.  Museums
.name.   Personal .206m
.net    Networks 14.7m
.org    Organizations 9.9m
.pro   Credentialed professionals and related entities .135m
.tel    Publishing of contact data .273m
.travel   Travelling
.xxx    Adult entertainment .117m
TOTAL 141.4m 



Numbers of Registrars

900 registrars 70% in top 12

Total   120 821 830     TOTAL
1       36 042 578      29.83 % GoDaddy.com, Inc                United States   
1       

2       9 698 690       8.03 %        eNom, Inc. [Prices]               United 
States   2       

3       7 869 069       6.51 %        Tucows.com Co.            Canada  1       

4       6 488 842       5.37 %        Network Solutions, LLC    United States   
3       

5       4 991 444       4.13 %        1&1 Internet AG9          Germany 1       

6       4 646 706       3.85 %        Melbourne IT Ltd          Australia       
1       

7       3 419 748       2.83 %       Wild West Domains,Inc.     United States   
4       

8       2 746 952       2.27 %        Directi Internet Solutions Pvt. Ltd. 
d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com       India   1       

9       2 510 896       2.08 %        Moniker Online Services LLC United States 
5       

10      2 448 449       2.03 %        Register.com, Inc.                United 
States   6       

11      1 867 856       1.55 %        Xin Net Technology Corporation    China   
1       

12      1 662 836       1.38 %        Key-Systems GmbH                  Germany 
2


Registries

Registry Operator       TLD             IANA                      Start
 
VeriSign              .COM              1985-01           2001-07       
VeriSign              .NET              1985-01                2001-07
PIR                     .ORG    1985-01           2003-01       
Neulevel              .BIZ              2001-06           2002-04       
Afilias       .INFO             2001-06           2002-01       
GNR / VeriSign  .NAME           2001-08           2002-03       
MDI                  .MUSEUM    2001-10           2008-02       
Dot Cooperation         .COOP           2001-12           2002-10       
SITA                 .AERO              2001-12           2002-04       
RegistryPro         .PRO                2002-05                    2004-06      
Tralliance             .TRAVEL  2005-07           2006-03       
Employ Media.       .JOBS              2005-09            2006-11
mTLD                 .MOBI             2005-10            2006-06       
puntCAT       .CAT             2005-12            2006-06
Telnic               .TEL          2007-03                2009-03
DotAsia       .ASIA            2007-05            2007-11       


Rosemary Sinclair
Director, External Relations
Australian School of Business
UNSW
+61 413734490(mobile)