Re: [gnso-ff-pdp-may08] fast flux numbers lately

[Joe St Sauver <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

#> Do you have breakdowns of the domains by TLD?
#
#I do!
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#  16745 com
#   6393 cn
#    470 net
#    399 org
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If a pie chart would be in order (and I think it would! :-)),
67.3% of the domains are .com's, 25.7% of them are .cn's,
1.9% are .net's and 1.6% are .org's. 

Collectively, just .com and .cn account for nearly 93% of all
the FF domains seen; .com+.cn+.net+.org=96.4+%.

All the other domains are individually less than a percent.

This makes it pretty clear to me that FF is basically a 
dot com (or dot com+dot net+dot org) and dot cn phenomenon.

If we need text to explain *why* these two TLDs are the
most popular, I would point out that at least in the
case of dot cn domains, dot cn was having a "one yuan
domain sale" for some time (one yuan is USD 0.14-0.15 or
so), which makes it one of the cheapest (if not the
cheapest) domains available.

Regards,

Joe