The Net-Domain - Backbone Of The Web

The net-domain - the backbone of the web

We do not always realize, that figures are just quantity and can deceive about quality.

In spite of the fact, that the net-domain is only the No. 4 in terms of the number of domain names registered, it works as a backbone of the web.The net-domains build the largest Top Level Domain by number of hosts, or machines connected to the Internet. More than 44 percent of name servers use net-domains.

We presume, that programmers and other technical experts have a more narrow emotional relationship to .net than to .com. Their sympathy for .net is just greater than for .com. Historically .net was once reserved for providers. This might have still an influence to the technical use of .net and the importance of this use. Every programmer and hostmaster has an idea of .net, but not every programmer and hostmaster has an idea of .com. In some way .net stands for the web.

Other facts: -- 31 percent of all page views are dependent on a net-domain for resolution -- 32 percent of all B2C e-Commerce in 2004 is dependent on a net-domain for resolution.

The number of registered domains has reached an all-time high of more than 60 million domain names worldwide.

Figures show that country code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs) are the fastest growing market, while general demand for new domains remains strong. The most popular domains are still the com-domains. The growth of com-domains is tremendous. Experts think, that the growing sale of com-domains reveal a revival of the "New Economy". Some experts even argue, that this growth of domain names is an early indicator of persisting economic growth in the USA and the whole world.

The com-domains remain the most popular domain with about a 45 percent market share.

New generic Top Level Domains outside of .com, .net and .org, become increasingly popular, including aero-domains, biz-domains, coop-domains, info-domains, museum-domains, .name-domains and pro-domains.

Do you sometimes come across exotic looking TLD's?

Ever wondered which domain name is from where?

I created the following table out of interest. Watch out for the new .eu TLD. [The European Union is working on the its own TLD.]

Commercial TLD'

.aero Aviation .biz Business Organizations .com Commercial .coop Co-Operative Organisations .edu Educational .gov Government .info info TLD .int International Organisations .mil US Dept of Defense .museum Museums .name Personal .net Networks .org Organisations

Country codes:-

.ac Ascension Island .ad Andorra .ae United Arab Emirates .af Afghanistan .ag Antigua and Barbuda .ai Anguilla .al Albania .am Armenia .an Netherlands Antilles .ao Angola .aq Antarctica .ar Argentina .as American Samoa .at Austria .au Australia .aw Aruba .az Azerbaijan .ba Bosnia and Herzegovina .bb Barbados .bd Bangladesh .be Belgium .bf Burkina Faso .bg Bulgaria .bh Bahrain .bi Burundi .bj Benin .bm Bermuda .bn Brunei Darussalam .bo Bolivia .br Brazil .bs Bahamas .bt Bhutan .bv Bouvet Island .bw Botswana .by Belarus .bz Belize .ca Canada .cc Cocos (Keeling) Islands .cd Congo, Democratic republic of the (former Zaire) .cf Central African Republic .cg Congo, Republic of .ch Switzerland .ci Côte d'Ivoire .ck Cook Islands .cl Chile .cm Cameroon .cn China .co Colombia .cr Costa Rica .cs Czechoslovakia .cu Cuba .cv Cape Verde .cx Christmas Island .cy Cyprus .cz Czech Repub lic .de Germany .dj Djibouti .dk Denmark .dm Dominica .do Dominican Republic .dz Algeria .ec Ecuador .ee Estonia .eg Egypt .eh Western Sahara .er Eritrea .es Spain .et Ethiopia .fi Finland .fj Fiji .fk Falkland Islands .fm Micronesia .fo Faroe Islands .fr France .ga Gabon .gd Grenada .ge Georgia .gf French Guiana .gg Guernsey .gh Ghana .gi Gibraltar .gl Greenland .gm Gambia .gn Guinea .gp Guadeloupe .gq Equatorial Guinea .gr Greece .gs South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands .gt Guatemala .gu Guam .gw Guinea-Bissau .gy Guyana .hk Hong Kong .hm Heard and McDonald Islands .hn Honduras .hr Croatia .ht Haiti .hu Hungary .id Indonesia .ie Ireland .il Israel .im Isle of Man .in India .io British Indian Ocean Territory .iq Iraq .ir Iran .is Iceland .it Italy .je Jersey .jm Jamaica .jo Jordan .jp Japan .ke Kenya .kg Kyrgyzstan .kh Cambodia .ki Kiribati .km Comoros .kn Saint Kitts and Nevis .kp Korea, Democratic People's Republic of .kr Korea, Republic of .kw Kuwait .ky Cayman Islands .kz Kazakhstan .la Lao People's Democratic Republic .lb Lebanon .lc Saint Lucia .li Liechtenstein .lk Sri Lanka .lr Liberia .ls Lesotho .lt Lithuania .lu Luxembourg .lv Latvia .ly Libyan Arab Jamahiriya .ma Morocco .mc Monaco .md Moldova .mg Madagascar .mh Marshall Islands .mk Macedonia .ml Mali .mm Myanmar .mn Mongolia .mo Macau .mp Northern Mariana Islands .mq Martinique .mr Mauritania .ms Montserrat .mt Malta .mu Mauritius .mv Maldives .mw Malawi .mx Mexico .my Malaysia .mz Mozambique .na Namibia .nc New Caledonia .ne Niger .nf Norfolk Island .ng Nigeria .ni Nicaragua .nl The Netherlands .no Norway .np Nepal .nr Nauru .nu Niue .nz New Zealand .om Oman .pa Panama .pe Peru .pf French Polynesia .pg Papua New Guinea .ph Philippines .pk Pakistan .pl Poland .pm St. Pierre and Miquelon .pn Pitcairn .pr Puerto Rico .ps Palestine .pt Portugal .pw Palau .py Paraguay .qa Qatar .re Reunion .ro Romania .ru Russia .rw Rwanda .sa Saudi Arabia .sb Solomon Islands .sc Seychelles .sd Sudan .se Sweden .sg Singapore .sh St. Helena .si Slovenia .sj Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands .sk Slovakia .sl Sierra Leone .sm San Marino .sn Senegal .so Somalia .sr Surinam .st Sao Tome and Principe .su Sovier Union .sv El Salvador .sy Syrian Arab Republic .sz Swaziland .tc The Turks & Caicos Islands .td Chad .tf French Southern Territories .tg Togo .th Thailand .tj Tajikistan .tk Tokelau .tm Turkmenistan .tn Tunisia .to Tonga .tp East Timor .tr Turkey .tt Trinidad and Tobago .tv Tuvalu .tw Taiwan .tz Tanzania .ua Ukraine .ug Uganda .uk United Kingdom .um United States Minor Outlying Islands .us United States .uy Uruguay .uz Uzbekistan .va Holy See (Vatican City State) .vc Saint Vincent and the Grenadines .ve Venezuela .vg Virgin Islands British .vi Virgin Islands U.S .vn Vietnam .vu Vanuatu .wf Wallis and Futuna Islands .ws Samoa .ye Yemen .yt Mayotte .yu Yugoslavia .za South Africa .zm Zambia .zr Zaire (non-existent, see Congo) .zw Zimbabwe