almost 800,000 a month

[findtim]

http://screencast.com/t/VISMOqy8oKK

wow, almost 800K a month of .com.au's are being registered.

but what really surprised me was 70K per month on .net.au's , people to late to market ?

with the "god forbid" potential of creating a .au only extension and if it is in place that the .com.au owner gets it then there are currently 70K miss informed people a month whacking a .net.au onto business cards.

YES, they will keep them if it was to change to .au

interesting stats

tim

 

[Chris.C]

I'm not seeing the 800,000 domain registrations a month...

In September 2013 there were 2718664 registered domains.

In June 2013 there were 2673939 registered domains.

So between June and September (3 months) there were 44,725 more AU domains registered which equals 14,908 new domain registrations a month...

Where are you getting 800,000 from?

 

[findtim]

ohh maybe I read it the wrong way, I though its was quarterly stats with an increase on the last quarter.

tim

 

[snoopy]

wow, almost 800K a month of .com.au's are being registered.

I know some domainers like a drink, but not the the extent of that many names being registered.

 

[findtim]

me bad

 

[Horshack]

Like most here I don't generally bother with the name if the .com.au is taken. Always worried that the traffic will end up with the .com.au anyway.

 

[findtim]

once I posted my guy in Vietnam skype'd me, so I asked him what they use there.

his answer was mostly .com and rarely .vn

I found that interesting and asked him for a few domains to go to ,

http://www.haivl.com.

and a bunch of others, but its interesting as I'd never think to register that spelling.

unfortunately for them they may have to compete in the .com space for a common name and thus this would restrict them.

so I wonder how many of the worlds country extensions are just not being used and businesses have defaulted to the .com ?

tim

 

[snoopy]

once I posted my guy in Vietnam skype'd me, so I asked him what they use there.

his answer was mostly .com and rarely .vn

I found that interesting and asked him for a few domains to go to ,

http://www.haivl.com.

and a bunch of others, but its interesting as I'd never think to register that spelling.

unfortunately for them they may have to compete in the .com space for a common name and thus this would restrict them.

so I wonder how many of the worlds country extensions are just not being used and businesses have defaulted to the .com ?

tim

I think a fair few. Some countries use .com/cctld half/half, the uk used to be like this but I think it is now more about the country code.

I don't think there is many countries that use the cctld like Australia does, where basically every local company uses .com.au, unless they are weird (and have chosen something else entirely) or trying to put on a very global face, like anz bank.

 

[findtim]

I think a fair few. Some countries use .com/cctld half/half, the uk used to be like this but I think it is now more about the country code.

I don't think there is many countries that use the cctld like Australia does, where basically every local company uses .com.au, unless they are weird (and have chosen something else entirely) or trying to put on a very global face, like anz bank.

I think if you are dubbodentist then is .com.au

if you are cairnsresort then its both

tim