RE: [ga] January 2001 Internet host count numbers

["Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes@verisign.com>]

Bruce,

I am not sure what point you were trying to make, but I believe that using
host counts is a very unreliable way to measure anything about the .org TLD.
Note the following approximate ratios of hosts to domain names: for .com,
considerably less than 2 to 1; for .net, greater than 5 to 1; for .edu,
greater than 1000 to one.

Chuck Gomes

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce James [mailto:bmjames@swbell.net]
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 7:43 PM
To: ga@dnso.org
Subject: [ga] January 2001 Internet host count numbers


I think the GA should consider the following information that .ORG is not
even in the top ten:

Here is a snapshot of the results from the January 2001 Internet
Domain Survey.

          Date    Host Count
         ------  -----------
  Jan-01  109,574,429
         Jul-00   93,047,785
         Jan-00   72,398,000
         Jul-99   56,218,000
         Jan-99   43,230,000

Distribution by Top-Level Domain Name by Host Count
       January 2001 (top 10 shown)

  Domain       Hosts
  -------   ----------
  com       36,352,243
  net       30,885,116
  edu        7,106,062
  jp         4,640,863
  ca         2,364,014
  uk         2,291,369
  us         2,267,089
  de         2,163,326
  mil        1,844,369
  it         1,630,526

More information and data can be found at http://www.isc.org/ds/. The
survey is produced by Network Wizards and Nominum, Inc., and is
sponsored by the Internet Software Consortium.

Vivian Neou
Director of Network Services
Nominum, Inc.




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