shrinking pool of registered domains?

[cavcav is verified member.]

As i watch all the strange & odd .uk domain names dropping day by day, never to be registered again (hopefully), I wonder if the .uk pool of registered domains is shrinking or whether more & more strange & odd domains are being registered?

 

[AdminAdmin is verified member.]

I've been looking at daily drop lists of around 1,000 UK domains for a few years now, the number of them registered nowadays is easily double what it was IMO.

I'd say it's going the other way..

 

[retired_member26]

I've been looking at daily drop lists of around 1,000 UK domains for a few years now, the number of them registered nowadays is easily double what it was IMO.

I'd say it's going the other way..

Don't forget that the person who had registered that crap 2 years ago was thinking he hit the jackpot. Unfortunately, he has now realized that what he registered was actually a crap.

 

[ratboy]

I'd say more crap is around now than it was a few years ago. But thats probably only because I dropped it

Seriously though, the pool is growing as the value of the top pool gets larger more of the lower value names will be bought.

 

[robrob is verified member.]

Some stats on it at Registrations

Total number of domains on register 7215447
Annual growth rate 11.95%

 

[keys]

A quick summary of yesterday's drop

year/registrations/% of drop

1998 8 2
2000 31 3
2002 110 15
2004 331 44
2006 269 36

total 751

From a drop of 751 domains (32 not dropped)

2008 131 17

 

[aquanuke]

A quick summary of yesterday's drop

year/registrations/% of drop

1998 8 2
2000 31 3
2002 110 15
2004 331 44
2006 269 36

total 751

From a drop of 751 domains (32 not dropped)

2008 131 17

Not very helpful as only as good as your droplists, mine are far from perfect but I had over 900 drops that day which is like 15% more than yours. Lets say im minimum 10% out of actual drops and where then a whopping 25% wrong at the very least :grin:

 

[keys]

shrinking pool

Not very helpful as only as good as your droplists, mine are far from perfect but I had over 900 drops that day which is like 15% more than yours. Lets say im minimum 10% out of actual drops and where then a whopping 25% wrong at the very least :grin:

Fair comment, I'm not trying to present any particular view. There is another way to approach this, using Nominet data to extract rough estimates,

By deducting registrations since August 2006 I would say the total register size at 01/08/06 was around 5,500,000.

The current renewal rate is 70%, meaning that 30% are not renewed. So 1.65m domains get cancelled over two years (0.3 x 5.5m). Assuming an even rate of cancellations, the daily total would be 2300.

If the same cancellation rates apply in November 2010 the daily total will increase to 2800.

 

[keys]

shrinking pool

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[Brassneck]

Interesting Nominet stats. Wonder when the Registry will peak? My gut feeling is that in about 12 months time we will see it level off at about 8 million registered domains.

Stephen.

 

[foz]

I'm feed up at just looking at the daily lists. Damn it's tedious.

 

[nnh]

Some stats on it at Registrations

Thats interesting, so 2000 was the peak!!!