Archive for July, 2008

Don’t stop, just keep coming and coming.

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

According to GoDaddy who coined the term, in April of this year, 35 million domain names were registered, and 32.7 million of them were not paid for. On the last day of March, approximately 764,672 .COM names were registered, but only 61,169 (less than 10%) were actually retained. DirectNic alone registered 8.4 million domains in April, but only retained 51.4 thousand of them. He estimates that on any given day, 3.5 million domain names are tied up by domain kiters. The process is clearly automated.

n addition to viewing data from the last month, you can now view performance data for the last thirty days. This date range is a new selection in the settings section of the create report page.

Here’s the full tracklisting of the album, which includes the usual suspects (Jack Johnson, Matt Costa) and some notably interesting inclusions (M. Ward, Kings of Convenience, The Beta Band):