The number of registered .com domain names have passed 128 Million for the 1st time according to Verisign the registry for .com.
According to Verisign the number of .com domain names in the Domain Name Base as of today is 128,015,138
The Domain Name Base as defined by Verisign “is the active zone plus the number of domain names that are registered but not configured for use in the respective Top-Level Domain zone file plus the number of domain names that are in a client or server hold status”.
“The daily domain name base provided on this page may not be comparable to domain name counts we disclose elsewhere. The domain name base may also reflect compensated or uncompensated judicial or administrative actions to add to or remove from the active zone an immaterial number of domain names.”
The number of .Com domain names passed 127 Million back on May 13, 2016, so it took basically almost 4 months for the .Com Domain Name Base to gain the extra 1 million domain names.
The real deal!
How many dot com domains are production sites – i.e. not parked – and in most cases not url forwarded ?
Out of more than 56.2 million unique websites indexed that end .com, just over 50.7 million unique websites are NOT parked, redirects etc.
(Courtesy of Dataprovider.com)
Being in the domain industry for 7 years and I never quite understood the reason to register a never ending long tailed keyword domain. Most of these domains are either parked or are so long that we don’t remember their names once we leave the site.
It would always be a better idea to register a ccTLD or gTLD domain which is shorter.
I only have 5 or 6 dot coms so I really don’t care if the .COM renewal price goes up past $8. I would be more than happy to pay at least $25 Twenty-Five Dollars per Year for each of my .Com domains. If your .com is so awesome how come you are not willing to pay more than 8 dollars for it? I’m not sure 2024 is enough time for those who are over-leveraged with .Com to get out of trouble and innovate. I know a lot of dudes who have been sitting around like the dinosaurs since 1986 and still haven’t innovated anything.
Because the cost of a domain name is not the only cost to consider, and any increase can have a flow on effect.
Now you may be more than happy to see prices triple, but some of us actually care about keeping costs down.
It’s just good sense.
When you talk about flow, I see a lot premium .com inventory being unseated by a $25 TWENTY-FIVE DOLLAR renewal and the domains making a high-availability re-entry into the innovation sector.
I would reduce .com renewals to $2 Dollars if I though it would help you turn the corner by 2024, but renewals isn’t the reason the dinosaurs went extinct.
just like the poor folks that own NYC real estate.
One can pass a certain number only one time; can’t pass the same number the second time. Therefore, “for 1st time” in the title is redundant.
great answer to those who said that the new TLDs was able to kill the .com 🙂
DomainInvesting’s June11 article Data.World raises $14 Million in Funding asks how much of that $14 million should be spent on .COM or does Data.World have everything they need to succeed moving forward?