Slicing and dicing domain name data.
This in-depth post from DataGenetics is a couple months old, but a reader just sent it to me today.
It’s a fascinating look at domain names. Some of the findings help you draw conclusions about the domain market while others are purely interesting.
Did you know…
* Of the 102.8 million names in .com space, only 12.54% of these same names are also registered in .net namespace. Of the 15 million registered .net domains, 86% are registered in .com.
* The median length of a .com domain is 12 characters. It’s 11 for .net.
* There are 26,169 palindrome .com domains
* Just over 9% of .com domain names contain at least one numeric character.
* 11.8% of .com domains have a dash
* e is the most popular letter found in domains, but s is the most popular letter to both start and end a second level domain
There’s some really interesting stuff in here. Check it out.
(Hat tip: Jorge Monasterio)
John says
The algos have arrived to domains …
Oren says
The real question is how do you find the 2.1 million .NETs that don’t have the matching .COM’s registered
John says
Oren is right
There is some hanging fruit there if there are 2.1 million .com’s available on registered .net’s
If one does the math on 2.1 million at $8.47 a name we’re at $17,787,000
If one only gets 10% of them (210,000) to buy the .com at $250 in the first year it comes to $52,500,000.
Profit of $34,713,000 in first year.
Rinse and Repeat.
If it could all be automated which I imagine a hedge fund out there could do it’s a great trade. Closest thing to an arbitrage for domains.
Someone get me the list ….
genname website says
Interesting article, the statistics are very useful for all purposes, domains. Com are among the most recorded by domain name registrants.