Web Address Sales Hit Record High.
The number of domain-name registrations has grown in nearly every year that the Internet has existed. This increase in domain name sales to growing Internet usage in Europe and Asia, as well as a rebounding U.S.
economy.
Increasing
Utilization: In addition to being larger than at any point in history, the current domain name base is also being used more actively. Over 72 percent of today's domain names now resolve to a Web site, up from 55 percent at the height of the boom in December 2002. In addition, total domain name resolutions for .com and .net reached an average of 11 billion per day in the first quarter, indicating that the speculative purchase of domain names that fueled much of the growth in the late nineties has been replaced by real Web sites and e-mail boxes, to which real people are connecting.
Increasing Globalization: Country Code Top Level Domains
(ccTLDs) account for a growing portion of overall domain names, and currently represent 40 percent of all domain names registered in the world. The majority of ccTLDs are registered in Europe, including .de (Germany) and
.uk (United Kingdom), which account for twelve percent and eight percent, respectively, of all domains registered in the world. In fact, .de accounts for more than 90 percent of all domains registered in Germany. Several countries around the world have already launched Internationalized Domain Names
(IDNs), also known as "multilingual" domains, which allow for the use of domain names written in non ASCII character sets. Other countries are planning to launch IDN capabilities this year.
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