Sometimes it seems like everyone’s got a web site. That’s almost true, VeriSign Inc. reports. The latest VeriSign Domain Report says there are 63 million registered web-site domain names, one for every 100 people in the world and the highest ever. VeriSign reports that 4.7 million new domain names were registered in the first quarter, also a record.
In addition, those names aren’t just sitting idle, waiting for someone to buy and activate them, as were many during the Internet investment bubble. Over 72% of today's domain names now lead to an actual web site, up from 55% in December 2002. In addition, total domain name resolutions—traffic that ended up at web sites—for dot-com and dot-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“indicating that the speculative purchase of domain names that fueled much of the growth in the late nineties has been replaced by real web sites and e-mail boxes, to which real people are connecting,” VeriSign’s report says.
VeriSign is a provider of infrastructure services for the Internet and telecommunications networks. It operates the global registry for dot-com and dot-net.
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