How many .com domain names are unused?

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Post by jekor » Thu, Jan 31, 2019, 9:04 PM UTC

How many .com domain names are unused?
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Re: How many .com domain names are unused?

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Post by leowoo91 » Thu, Jan 31, 2019, 9:44 PM UTC

"There are currently 137 million .com domain names registered."

But how many is regularly visited today by most of the population? A good 10k max?

Re: How many .com domain names are unused?

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Post by lifeisstillgood » Thu, Jan 31, 2019, 9:46 PM UTC

Aside from anything else, there is a lot of work out into this - it's a pretty robust piece of research, and is (I assume) a fairly good calling card as there are many business questions that can only be answered with this sort of skill set / stubbornness

Re: How many .com domain names are unused?

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Post by gohwell » Thu, Jan 31, 2019, 9:47 PM UTC

leowoo91 wrote: post #2

"There are currently 137 million .com domain names registered." But how many is regularly visited today by most of the population? A good 10k max?

Alexa can give you an idea of the most popular sites. https://www.alexa.com/topsites

Re: How many .com domain names are unused?

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Post by whttheuuu » Thu, Jan 31, 2019, 9:51 PM UTC

Domain renewals should be priced higher. $500/yr, $1000/yr, $5000/yr would prevent squatters.

Re: How many .com domain names are unused?

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Post by chki » Thu, Jan 31, 2019, 9:56 PM UTC

whttheuuu wrote: post #5

Domain renewals should be priced higher. $500/yr, $1000/yr, $5000/yr would prevent squatters.

Wouldn't this completely prevent small local organizations/business owners from running their own websites and push them in the Facebook/Google/etc ecosystem? or do I not understand what a "renewal" is?

Re: How many .com domain names are unused?

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Post by banana_giraffe » Thu, Jan 31, 2019, 9:56 PM UTC

I'd be curious how many domain names are used, but not for the web or email. No idea how to measure this, and I'm sure it's tiny.

For instance, I have a .io domain I use as my own little personal dynamic dns service since dyndns turned evil. The TLD doesn't do anything interesting, and any web pages served by the subdomains are done on nonstandard ports, so if this study scanned .io domains, they'd classify my domain as not in use, when it very much is.

Re: How many .com domain names are unused?

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Post by cmiller1 » Thu, Jan 31, 2019, 9:57 PM UTC

whttheuuu wrote: post #5

Domain renewals should be priced higher. $500/yr, $1000/yr, $5000/yr would prevent squatters.

Wouldn't that be harmful to small businesses though?

Re: How many .com domain names are unused?

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Post by waiseristy » Thu, Jan 31, 2019, 9:57 PM UTC

whttheuuu wrote: post #5

Domain renewals should be priced higher. $500/yr, $1000/yr, $5000/yr would prevent squatters.

That's a horrible solution. How about we add more TLD's so it costs effectively $5000/yr to squat the same domain on all the alternative TLD's

Re: How many .com domain names are unused?

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Post by behringer » Thu, Jan 31, 2019, 9:58 PM UTC

chki wrote: post #6

whttheuuu wrote: post #5

Domain renewals should be priced higher. $500/yr, $1000/yr, $5000/yr would prevent squatters.

Wouldn't this completely prevent small local organizations/business owners from running their own websites and push them in the Facebook/Google/etc ecosystem? or do I not understand what a "renewal" is?

No you understood right. He's suggesting that a domain should be 5000 a year so that you or I could never possibly own any .com domain for personal use.