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

["Jonathan Robinson" <jonathan.robinson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Very helpful.  Domainworldwide clearly wrong / very out of date and missing
key stats.

Others seem accurate from my prior and/or industry knowledge.

Best,


Jonathan

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gnso-consumercci-dt@xxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-gnso-consumercci-dt@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rosemary Sinclair
Sent: 28 May 2012 23:22
To: Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond
Cc: gnso-consumercci-dt@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [gnso-consumercci-dt] Number of domain names at the end of
2011.


Hi Olivier

Many thanks!!

Rosemary

Rosemary Sinclair
Director, External Relations
Australian School of Business
UNSW
+61 413 734490

On 29/05/2012, at 5:11 AM, "Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond" <ocl@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
>