July 31, 2006

How many new domains are registered every day? reference — by TDavid @ 10:19 am PST

jottings lists the 100 oldest registered domains. Here are the 10 oldest:

1. 15-Mar-1985 SYMBOLICS.COM
2. 24-Apr-1985 BBN.COM
3. 24-May-1985 THINK.COM
4. 11-Jul-1985 MCC.COM
5. 30-Sep-1985 DEC.COM
6. 07-Nov-1985 NORTHROP.COM
7. 09-Jan-1986 XEROX.COM
8. 17-Jan-1986 SRI.COM
9. 03-Mar-1986 HP.COM
10. 05-Mar-1986 BELLCORE.COM

The very first domain registered was on April 24, 1985 March 15, 1985 and #100 was on November 30, 1987, a full two plus years later. This led me to the following Hmm:

Currently how many domains are registered a day, minute, second?
The site domaintools.com lists stats (pictured atop) showing 419,367 per day in .com new domains are registered. It’s well known that .com is by far the most popular registered domain, which leads to a discussion why bother registering any other TLD? Using the domaintools.com stats — and I don’t know how accurate these stats are (please provide correction in the comments if you know of a better source) — we learn:

486,121 / 24 hours
= 20,255 per hour / 60 minutes
= 337.58 per minute / 60 seconds
= 5.62 domains registered every second

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6 Comments »

1. There’s a lot of evidence that most of these domains are registered for less than five days, before the registrant dumps them, requests a refund, then re-registers them.

   Comment by Kevin Murphy — July 31, 2006 @ 11:30 am PST

2. Ahh yes, domain churning.

   Comment by TDavid — July 31, 2006 @ 11:38 am PST

3. I wonder how many of the domains registered this year will still be around in twenty years. It is obvious that a lot of what we think the internet is now will be scraped and replaced by then. Maybe we will get it right after the third or fourth time. I am so sick of spammers and other jerks that maybe we should start the process now.

   I guess I will have to wait for the next collapse first.

   Comment by Paul Benjamin — July 31, 2006 @ 12:51 pm PST

4. Neat little tid bits. One thing though. You have listed in your top ten that symbolics.com was the first reg’d domain on the 15th of march 85, a month earlier than bbn.com. Just thought I’d throw that in there.

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   Comment by Erik — August 2, 2006 @ 4:18 pm PST

5. You’re correct, my bad there Erik. It’s been fixed, thank you.

   Comment by TDavid — August 17, 2006 @ 9:24 pm PST

6. I wonder how many domains are allowed to be registered to a single person…. or is there any restriction as such !?!

   Comment by Rohan — June 23, 2007 @ 12:10 pm PST

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