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

[Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl@xxxxxxx>]

Dear Rosemary,

On 28/05/2012 05:29, Rosemary Sinclair wrote :

>
>
> 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

Now that appears to be missing major TLDs.
For example, .FR Registered Domains: 1,726,707 Domain Names as given by
AFNIC shows as 154,000 on the Domains Worldwide Count (at position 27).
Also compare the .COM list from Verisign & the one here.

Having followed the Verisign Domain Brief for a while, I am tempted to
say that I trust the Verisign figures more.

Kind regards,


-- 
Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
http://www.gih.com/ocl.html