Just when you thought you had got on top of information overload,
Netcraft releases their latest survey revealing that there are now more
than 100 million domain/host names out there. (http://www.netcraft.com/)
This is an increase of 3.5 million over last month, and the accompanying
graph suggests that there is no slow down in peeps wanting to set up
their own domain on the Net. The report is confusing because the text
refers to web sites but the graph is labelled 'Domains August 1995 -
November 2006' and the relevant line is labelled host names. Domain
names and web sites are NOT synonymous. A single web site can be set up
so that several domain names point to it: until recently the UKeiG web
site had 9 domain names. Also many domain names are bought but not used
for an active web site.
A little more reassuring and manageable is the line on the graph that
shows active domains, which is getting close to 51 million. Compare that
with Netcraft's first survey in August 1995 which identified 18,957 hosts.
Still too much information - my brain is beginning to hurt !
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Karen Blakeman, UKeiG Management Committee
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