State of the Domain Q1 2003 Report just out

[nameslave]

State of the Domain Q1 2003 Report just out:

https://www.sotd.info/sotd/content/documents/SOTDQ103.pdf

NetSol's market share of CNOBINU further drops to only 25.34% and below the 8 million mark.

Regarding GoDaddy & eNom's duel, the former has superceded the 2 million mark, replacing MelbourneIT and becomes #4 on the chart.

[allan]

I found this statistic particularly interesting, as of 03/31/2003, the total number of registered:

.biz domains: 891,200
.info domains: 1,069,266

Is anyone else surprised that there are more .info domains than .biz registered? Do you all feel that .biz is going to flop, and people with a business will simply register a .com?

[Chicken]

Well in theory, .info is a bit more general. It could be used for organizations, churches, schools, businesses, families, etc. I have one (or two, who knows) .info personally, and was considering registering one for my school.

.biz on the other hand, is slightly more limited. I mean, it certainly wouldn't be appropriate to have schoolname.biz or churchname.biz or familyname.biz -that would just be weird.

To be honest, I'm still surprised that .net never 'did that well' and wasn't recognized as the primary TLD. I mean, it even has part of the word 'internet' in it, and it is a common, short 3-letter word which is difficult to misspell.

Doesn't make sense to me.

[nameslave]

That higher .info registration number might simply be that it's actually open for "business" earlier and was the ONLY and long-waited alternative to CNO back then. :)

[markblair]

Yes, like nameslave said, .info came out first. I know I jumped on the bandwagon and got my primary domains .info extension so I could have it. Now, I'm just waiting until September when it will expire. It'll be two years at that point. I only have the one .info domain and not that there's anything against it but I could use some other domain for the little that it does for me. I believe that when .biz came out afterwards, people weren't as easily fooled with the auction style that the registrars pulled to sell these domains. I know I didn't.