I have not been blogging all that much lately, but it seems like when I get into the swing of it again.. I just keep on writing. Today is no different and I hope I am providing you with some helpful information in at least one of my postings, if not all. Here are some random domain name facts that I have dug up today…. some may have meaning to you, many are just interesting numbers!
Snapnames.com currently has 1,949,772 domain names on auction or that will be starting in the next 30 days. Yep, that is nearly 2 Million!
Afternic.com currently has 2,409,990 domain names listed in their database at Afternic.com . These domain names consist of user submitted domain names and domain names owned by NameMedia (Afternic/BuyDomains.com)
BuyDomains.com currently owns 933,921 domain names, with 918,634 of those being listed for sale.
There are currently 926 ICANN accredited domain name registrars. The last time I checked, this number was in the 1,0XX range.
Moniker.com, Register.com and PublicDomainRegistry.com are all in a tight battle to stay in the top 10 registrars by volume. All three currently have 2.5 Million domain names under control. Moniker has held the #8 spot for some time now and currently has 2,557,803 . Register.com is right behind with 2,556,156 and PDR at 2,507,716.
NetworkSolutions.com consistently has between 75,000 to 79,000 expired domain names at all times. The vast majority of these domain names are auctioned off at NameJet.com if not renewed by the past owner. I personally have never seen that number fall any lower than 75K and never have seen it hit the 80K mark. It’s just interesting how that number can stay about the same, all the time. Without doing the math, I would say about 2,500 domains hit expired status every day. This number can reach up to 4,000 + for a single day but normally stays around that 2,500 number.
DomainControl.com is almost always the most active domain name server. DomainControl.com is used by the worlds largest domain name registrar Godaddy.com . The server is a "default" when new domain names are registered and also used with domain name forwarding… and likely other things. Millions of domain names use that DNS. 23.9 Million to be exact as of today. The next highest that I could find is a eNom server Name-Services.com that has about 3.5 million.
43,552 new .com domain names were registered so far today, as of 11:42 AM PST.
52,344 were transferred
Some stats were provided from RegistrarStats.com and DailyChanges.com .
If you were not aware of those two sources, they provide some interesting data, which clearly can be useful if you think outside the box, with the data provided.
