<Domain names.
History - overview.
The Domain name system was originally a single file "hosts.txt."
maintained by Dr. Jon Postel of UCLA under a Department of Defense
contract. It became too time consuming to administer when the number
of domain names reached more than a few hundred.
In 1984, a new system was designed by Paul Mockapetris of USC. The
system was maintained under contract to the Department of Defense.
In 1991, the non-military part of the internet was made the
responsibility of the National Science Foundation.
In 1992, Network Solutions Inc was granted an exclusive contract by
the National Science Foundation to be the sole registrar for .com .net
and .org Top Level Domain names. They also maintained the central
database of assigned names called WHOIS.
In 1998 ?1999, this monopoly was dismantled by the U.S. Department of
Commerce and replaced by a competitive market. NSI?s contract was due
to expire on September 30 1998. On September 29 1998, the contracted
was extended by 7 days. On October 8 1998 the contract was extended to
September 30 2000 with the provision that domain registration be
gradually transferred to a new organization. This organization was the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
http://www.ahref.com/guides/industry/199903/0323piou3.html
According to an article by Scott Clark, by June of 1999, several
companies became domain name registrars including Register.com and
CORE. By January of 2000, there were over 80 ICAAN accredited
registrars, and about 100 additional CORE "Reselling Members"
registrars. http://www.domainnotes.com/news/article/0,,3371_350991,00.html
Domain names history ? beginning to 2000
http://www.ahref.com/guides/industry/199903/0323piou2.html
Domain names history. 1992 - 1999
http://domains.dewdesigns.com/history.htm
A more detailed history is available here.
1996 ?1997
http://www.tbtf.com/resource/dom-name-hist-97-96.html
1998
http://www.tbtf.com/resource/dom-name-hist-98.html
1999 ? present.
http://www.tbtf.com/resource/domain-name-hist.html
By 2001 there were over 60,000 websites selling domain names and
35,000 names being sold each day.
https://www.sotd.info/sotd/Content/Documents/press_reportPR.html
This report gives details of the top ten registrars in 2001.
https://www.sotd.info/sotd/Content/Documents/press_q3sotdPR.html
2001 -2003
State of the Domain produces reports about the domain name market.
Their reports give details of the top 25 companies by market share.
Details of the number of ccTLD?s. The reports are quarterly from April
2001 to 2003. To view the reports you need to register as a member
which is free.
https://www.sotd.info/sotd/Default.aspx?sub=0&selection=0
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Domain name prices.
1985 ? free
1995 - $100 per two years.
1998 - $35 per two years.
1999 - $50 to $100 per two years.
http://www.domainnotes.com/news/article/0,,3371_350991,00.html
January 15, 2000 ? wholesale prices.
According to an article by Carolyn Duffy Marsan, from January 15 2000,
it was possible to buy domain names at wholesale prices and to get
flexible registration terms ranging from one to ten years. Two
companies TUCOWS.com and register.com announced plans to cut the
prices of domain names and to offer multiyear registration terms.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/01/11/cheap.domains.idg/
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Number of domain names.
In May of 1995 there was only one .com registered ? think.com. In
October 1995 the second .com was registered. October 1991 there were
165 .co, 22 .org, 20 .net, 285 .edu and 3 .us domain names registered.
Number registered.
1993 ?600
1995 ? 6,000
1997- 22,000.
http://www.domainnotes.com/news/article/0,,3371_350991,00.html
March 1997 ? 1 million
May 1998 ? 2 million
March 1999 ? 4 million
May 1999 ? 5 million
April 2000 ? 10 million
http://www.umb.edu/site_map_search/web_development/history.html
December 1996 ? 627,000
December 1997 ? 1.5 million.
http://www.technology.gov/digeconomy/danintro.htm
Number of domain names in February 2000 (Source: NetNames) ? 13,226,005
Number of domains in Feb 2000:
.com ? 8,006,089
.net ? 1,216,750
.org ? 779,956
.edu ? 5,673
.gov ? 730
Top 5 international domains in February 2000.
.de (Germany) ? 893,159
.uk (United Kingdom) ? 758,478
.ar (Argentina) 146,399
.kr (South Korea) ? 132,286
.nl (Netherlands) ? 121,242
http://www.stgi.net/marketing_data.html
Domain names registered per quarter 1996 ? 2000.
Here the numbers are depicted on a graph.
http://www.forbes.com/2000/11/15/1115register_print.html
As of January 2001, there were 35,158,339 domain names registered.
This site shows the percentage of news domain names registered in
August 2000 by registrar - Network Solutions (34%), Tu Com Inc (16%),
Register.com (13%), A la Banza Inc (8%) and others (29%).
http://www.domainfellow.com/Ezine/MarketResearch/marketsize.asp>
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