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 The Silent Evolution of Domain Names

Found this article on namepros and techcrunch and I think it will be of great interest to you as a domain investor and I on that note brought it for you.


Verisign recently reported that the number of registered dot-com domain names exceeded 128 million for the first time. With a wholesale price of $7.85 each, this means $1,004,800,000 in annual fees, and that’s before factoring in reseller prices, country code domains and alternative extensions to measure the domain-name industry as a whole. The internet has come a long way since the first domain name, Symbolics.com, was registered in 1985. Even longer when you consider it was only 1994 when Joshua Quittner (a WIRED writer at the time) contacted McDonald’s to see if they were interested in registering mcdonalds.com, and, well, got nowhere.

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More Than One Million .UK Domains Are Registered at Godaddy

It was announced yesterday by the Executive V President of Godaddy International; Mr. Andrew Low Ah Kee, that the company is proud that 25 percent of UK domains are been registered by various entrepreneurs at Godaddy registrar.

The Executive V President of Godaddy International; Mr. Andrew said that it is a milestone for them to be the registrar of over one million of the UK domains. He further said that  

“Reaching 1 million .UK domains demonstrates the value GoDaddy brings to customers by helping them create powerful digital identities. What is even more exciting to us than the milestone itself is the fact that we’ve grown our .UK domains under management by over 50% in the last 24 months. Our organic growth is a reflection that our purpose-built product and exceptional customer care resonate strongly with the UK market. We’re committed to growing our UK business and are excited to continue supporting the digital revolution taking place in the UK.”

Russell Haworth, Managing Director at Nominet, the official registry for UK domain names, commented: “It’s a significant achievement to reach a million .uk and co.uk registrations, and the rate of growth is impressive.  Like GoDaddy, we are committed to making the case for more businesses having their own space online, helping create new opportunities for us all.”

However, we understood the kind of generosity given to each and every new customer by the company and couples with the ideal customer care services are the power behind the development of Godaddy.

However, we  on our own perspective realized that there are more than 10 million UK domains in operation, been registered in the UK and worldwide, thus makes the extension next after .de which is more 16 million in that region

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Let Nigerians Receive Funds With Paypal

Nigerians! you need to visit change.org and support the protest that could enable Nigerians have full transactions on paypal, by posting a support ticket for a protest written by a Nigerian. 

The protest needs 1000 people to make the management of paypal listening to the protest. Presently, the protest and supports have reached 950 and just go there and make your own contribution count for us.

Even if you are not a Nigerian and you want us to have the full access; then, you can support the process by submitting just a support to the protest.

Follow the link below and make your support count for us.

Let Nigerians receive payment from paypal

Cheers

Review on New Generic Top Level Domains (NewGTLDs) Compare With Old Top Level Domains (TLDs)

Yes! New domain allowed people to register, shorter, relevant and recognizable domains, Instead of long, cumbersome and lengthy domain names that are available on old TLDs.  About 300 Registries submitted applications in 2012, following the ICANN’s requests for applications for new domains. Today, ICANN at their conference in 2013 started to change the face of internet and now there are about 400 new domain extensions available online. As of today there are  more than 24 million new gTLDs registered and over one million new websites with new domains that was unable to put up their websites before the introduction of new domain extensions.

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Data of Domains Accrued By Chinese

I found these data very useful for investors who are interested in Chinese Market as a source for your easy investigation before going for any of the extension.

On the data, we found that .cn extension is waxing stronger in the Chinese nation better than .com domains and there are 4.2 million website in that nation as well.

As of August 2016 there are 4.2m websites in China and out of available 676 two letter “LL.com” domains Chinese owned 148 out of the figure. Out of 100 total number of possible - two numeric “NN.com” domains, Chinese owned 62 out of the total figure based on the data given by coreile owner

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Item	Number	Updated
.biz	70,770	2016.01.22
.cn	19,511,872	2016.09.13
.com	10,997,941	2016.01.22
.info	26,107	2016.01.22
.net	1,415,001	2016.01.22
.org	397,970	2016.01.22
.top	2,241,164	2016.05.18

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