Nominet releases Domain name industry report
http://www.domainnews.com/registries/2007112319/nominet-releases-first-domain-name-industry-report/
Excerpts:
—- Most popular and successful of the gTLDs is.com which enjoys a 48% share of the whole market
—- sTLD market share is currently negligible at less than 0.5% of the market, or 650k domain names, with 568,000 of these registrations for .mobi
—- Domain tasting – Nominet has introduced a policy to prevent domain tasting that has led to a reduction in registrations attributed to domain tasting dropping from around 2% of new registrations cancelled prior to invoice payment in August 2006 when the policy was introduced to just 0.38% now
—- Even with all going on in the domain space, there are just 23 domain names per 1,000 inhabitants of the entire planet (think about that in the context of companies and individuals.. and the number available to ‘people’ is even smaller)
—- British Internet users are six times more likely to choose a .uk rather than .com address when looking for information via an Internet search engine.