Tuesday, April 25  

5,822,881 .com Domain Names Registered In 1 Week

5,822,881 .com Domain Names Registered In 1 Week

Go Daddy owner Bob Parsons has a blog over at BobParsons.com. He recently wrote a post where he mentions this amazing statistic:

During the week of March 27 — April 2, 2006, 5,822,881 .COM names were registered.

Wow. Bob's blog went on to mention that of those only 455,918 .COM names were actually retained after the grace period expired (some Domain Registrars apparently use a 5 day grace period to register a name, pop up a web site with Pay Per Click ads, have the web site up for the 5 days, make a little money from people landing on those domains, then drop the domain after the 5 days).

Anyway, 455,918 .com domains registered per week is still a huge number.

Brendon