There are almost 200 million registered web addresses across the whole world wide web, according to a report by global registry operator Verisign.The first three months of 2010 closed with 193 million domain names being registered. Web monitoring firm Pingdom claimed that the milestone may have already been reached as the first quarter closed at the end of March, more than two months ago.
The most popular registrations were .com (87 million), accounting for nearly half of those registered in total, according to Registrar Stats. The top three name-based domains were Germany (.de), China (.cn) and UK (.uk).According to Germany’s central registry network DENIC, over a million German domains were registered on Sunday. China changed the way in which people could register .cn
domain names and this had a noticeable impact on the number of these names being registered.
Pingdom found that 12 per cent of these addresses don’t actually link to a website, however. Twenty-four per cent led to single-page sites and the other 64 per cent went to multi-page websites.The growth in domain names has jumped by nearly 100 million in only four years – 2006 saw the 100 million milestone reached.
he most expensive domain name – insure.com – was sold in 2009 for $16m (about £11m).
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