251 people from 36 countries participated in this year’s survey.
Over the next week or two I’ll post a series of stories with the results from this year’s Domain Name Wire survey.
I’d like to start by thanking each and every person who took the survey. 251 people from 36 countries responded this year. That’s fewer than in previous years because this year’s survey didn’t have any voting for companies. However, I think the quality of response was higher.
The chart below shows a breakdown of survey-takers. The top row shows the percentage that are domain investors (75%). The second is the number that work for or own a domain registrar (19%) and the bottom row includes everyone that owns another type of domain services company (20%). Obviously, there’s a lot of crossover in this industry.
Of those that identified themselves as domain investors, 80% said that at least 3/4 of their domains were .com. About 30% of survey-takers own at least 1,000 domain names.
I promised a few prizes to those that took the time to complete the survey:
Ira Z. won a free escrow at Agreed.com. (10 others will receive a discounted escrow at Agreed.) Fred M. and Jeff B. have won a copy of David Kesmodel’s book “The Domain Game”. I’ll contact all winners over the next few days.
AbdulBasit.com says
Thanks for sharing the survey results. Some interesting facts.
Congrats to the winners!