Verisign released their Q2 domain industry report today, which contained news that the number of websites has reached more than 180 million, which is a 12% growth on Q2 last year!
It’s interesting to note how Verisign now describes a website as:
“having multiple pages or one-page Web sites. One-page Websites include under-construction, brochure-ware and parked pages in addition to online advertising revenue generating parked pages”.
They used to distinguish between multi-page sites (which they termed “live” sites) and PPC or one-page landers. For example, in their Q1 2007 report,Verisign reported that 63% of resolving .com and .net domains returned the former, while 23% were parked pages.
I suppose the Verisign report reflects the evolution of the internet landscpe, diversification of domain usage and our changing attitudes to different forms of domain development. A cynic might draw other conclusions, but let’s stop there 
I wonder what the next report will hold?
The report can be found here: http://www.verisign.com/static/DNIB_09_0529web.pdf and Nominet’s annual domain name report is here: http://www.nominet.org.uk/intelligence/industryreport/
In other news, Iraq is seeking the .iq extension and the US government has finally confirmed that it plans to digitally sign the internet’s root zone by the end of the year.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/04/dnssec_coming/
http://www.net4now.com/?p=2131
See you tomorrow!
Nora
