Good News to Web Hosting Companies

In the recent years, the num­ber of domain name reg­is­tra­tion and renewal rate has some­what increased and that is clear when we look at the last year rates. Of course, every year the rate is increas­ing, but this year espe­cially a rapid increase. In the last quar­ter of the year 2009, it was found that the total num­ber domain reg­is­tra­tion for the .com domain is around 192 mil­lion and thus it is approach­ing towards 20 mil­lion this year 2010. Till now, dot­com and dot­net is pop­u­lar glob­ally and these are the one which are reg­is­tered by most of the peo­ple. Not only, the reg­is­tra­tion rate of domain names increased, but also the renewal rate of domain names also increased and now reached 71 per­cent. So, 29 per­cent of domains are allowed to expire by the admin.
Due to the increase of domain names, the DNS now receives more than 52 mil­lion requests per day. When com­pare to the year 2008, this range is high because every hour the num­ber of request exceeds 2.1 bil­lion. The pop­u­lar domains next to dot­com and dot­net are UK, Ger­many and China. Another fact released related to domains is that around 37 per­cent of domains point noth­ing or point a sin­gle page. Thus, it is really a good news for the web host­ing companies.