Had done a post about this a few years back – thought I’d do a 2022 update. Total Domains Registered: 355,600,736 [311,065,716] +12.5% gTLDs: 60.12% [59.98%] ccTLDs: 39.47% [39.40%] IDNs: 0.41% [0.62%] 9 gTLDs have more than 1m regs 32 ccTLDs have more than 1m regs Top 20 gTLDs account for 94.88% of all registered [...] Continue reading →

Yes, it really is, even in .com!! Surprised? You shouldn’t be, after all any TLD is like unlimited virtual land, anyone can go and grab some. And there are literally over a 1000 tlds out there, 21 gtlds / stlds, 250+ cctlds, 1000+ new gtlds. So if you look at the number of effective combinations [...] Continue reading →

As you’ve probably read in the recent reports – “Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach” The data was collected through an app called thisisyourdigitallife You know those cutesy Facebook surveys and Twitter polls that millions click on, whether unknowingly or just to kill some time? Well, they provide [...] Continue reading →

WebsiteBuilderau.com has published an interesting infographic on domain names. I’m sure most facts will be known by the readers of the blog, but an excellent recap nonetheless. Here’s another fun fact – the first domain ever registered (not commercially) was on the 1st of Jan 1985 and it was a .net domain! Nordu.net [Source: Wikipedia] [...] Continue reading →

More than a few CMOs (Chief Marketing Officers), business owners and even startup founders feel that a domain name is an insignificant aspect of their brand. The brand, in their mind, exists outside the narrow confines 🙄 of the internet. It has a life of it’s own, a character of it’s own and a philosophy [...] Continue reading →

The Dec 2015 spike and subsequent drop in LLLL.com prices on the reseller market wasn’t the first time that happened. […] [...] Continue reading →

A man went to Guru Nanak Sahib and asked, “What’s the value of life?” Gurunanak ji gave him one stone […] [...] Continue reading →