Here are some random domain name stats. Most should be True, some will be close and many will be Exact! LOL
SnapNames.com currently has Exactly 1,751,968 domains listed on it’s site!
Sedo.com claims to have OVER 11.5 Millions domains listed.
Afternic.com claims to have over 35 Million searches per month for it’s Premium Promotion.
Afternic.com currently has Exactly 4 domain names on auction!
Of those 4, Exactly one is an expired auction.
Godaddy.com claims to have 7 Million customers.
NetworkSolutions.com has 76,056 domain names currently in "expired status".
WhyPark.com has crossed the 100K domains using it’s service! 100,179 to be exact! In fact, WhyPark was purchased by Parked.com (April, 2009) and had 2,800 New domain names added to it’s service in One Day! From April 1-30th, WhyPark.com gained 11,000 domain names to it’s service for a total at that time of 69,240. May-June-July added another 30,000 domains to put it at the current number of 100,179!
Godaddy.com sold it’s FIRST domain name in November of 2000! As of July 2009, 35 MILLION domain names are currently under Godaddy.com’s control.
At time of posting, Sedo.com had 268 domain names currently at auction. That’s 67 x’s MORE then Afternic.com!
DotWeekly.com had Exactly 1,437 unique vistors yesterday. (see, you were not the only one)
Godaddy.com claims to have over 2 Million domain names at auction starting at $5
Stats as of today for .COM, .NET, .ORG, .INFO, .BIZ, .US domains
110,449,553 Total are Registered
95,021 of those are "newly registered"
76,322 were deleted today
90,188 were transferred to a new registrar
81,317,182 .com domain names alone are registered.
I love numbers, so I hope you enjoyed seeing these as much as I enjoyed gathering them and seeing them myself.
Daniel Dryzek
Thx! It was interesting to read!
viqi
You left out the number of domains listed on afternic. It will be interesting to see the ratio of domains in auction by total domains listed for both services.
Sedo – 268/11.5 million
Afternic – 4/??
Stephen Douglas
Hi Jamie
Due to some server re-directs, you aren’t counting one client alone that has parked over 75,000 domains at WhyPark. Their total domain count is well over 200,000 at this date. When i was VP of Biz Dev, I brought Whypark domains parking from 50,000, to 150,000 within less than a year, and that was BEFORE they were free. They are chomping at more than 200k right now, but you can’t find this info through traditions means, because WhyPark works out special deal for large domain holders that don’t show up on whois or other analytic sites.
Just know this… by the end of this year, WhyPark will have over 300,000 domains parked with them, at the minimum. Especially for those domainers who want some content on their domains for SE indexing and “impressing” end users…
thanks for the article, broey
Jamie Zoch
@Stephen,
Thank you for the insider info and the updates to the numbers. I have a hard time tracking forwards
Jamie Zoch
@Viqi,
I wasn’t 100% of the number of domains on Afternic as they seemed to remove the number (or I couldn’t find it). Since they added a better verification, I’m sure the number has changed a lot. It was around 3 million. Although Sedo claims 11.5 Million, I would put a large bet that is really not the case. I would say closer to 5-7 Million really.
Stephen Douglas
No problem, Jamie.
However, my name is spelled “STEPHEN” (second vowel is an ‘e’, not an ‘a’)
i’m picky about that! But I’ll still invite you over to my acreage in Pac norwest for a few days of fun, rest, beer, and other libations to clear your mind!
cheers
Stephen
Jamie Zoch
@Stephen,
It’s like when people call me James…. Not my name. lol I have went back and fixed my a’s to e’s typo’s. Thanks for the invite. I love BEER 
that get’s me every time.
Stephen Douglas
well good buddy, Oregon has the best micro brews in the world…
so, testing them out wouldn’t be against any “diet” policy you have, right? lol. Then we can work on the scotch!
whooo hooo!