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March 5, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Internet infrastructure services provider VeriSign (verisign.com) announced on Wednseday it has published its Q4 2007 Domain Name Industry Brief, which reveals that the Internet grew by nearly 33 million domain names in 2007.
At the close of the year, there was a total base of more than 153 million domain name registrations worldwide across all of the top level domains - a 27 percent increase over the same quarter last year, and five percent growth over Q3 2007. Meanwhile, the .com and .net adjusted base surpassed 80.4 million domain name registrations at the end of 2007 - a 24 percent increase year over year and a four percent increase quarter over quarter.
Country Code TLD registrations topped more than 58 million, a 33 percent increase from 2006 and a six percent increase from Q3 2007. The composition of the domain name industry and rank order in terms of base size remained relatively constant.
"The widespread adoption of Internet-enabled wireless devices and gaming consoles has created a growing demand for larger IP address space," says Raynor Dahlquist, senior VP of naming services at VeriSign. "To stay ahead of this demand, VeriSign recently took steps to enable the A and J root servers for IPv6. This will help ensure that developing global infrastructures will have sufficient IP address space to innovate, to enhance the end-to-end connectivity for IPv6 networks, and to facilitate richer use of DNS."
VeriSign announced last week it has launched a new viral marketing campaign that offers a humorous approach to abandoned shopping carts.
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October 2009 - Web Hosting's All Star Team
This has been, for us, one of the most interesting, exciting and challenging build-ups to an issue of the magazine yet, Web Hosting's All Star Team. The balloting process was our first experiment with a kind of user participation we're planning to do a lot more with in the months to come. We had thousands of ballots submitted, with hundreds of write-in suggestions and a demonstration of user engagement that has us feeling super positive about the project.
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July 2009 - What am I Worth?
One of the interesting luxuries of working on a project like the printed WHIR magazine is that it allows us to play with things like our point of view from one issue to the next. In recent months we've been giving added attention to the kind of practical and applicable advice aimed at smaller hosts and resellers. This issue carries on with that point of view, asking, in our cover story, "what am I worth?" It's a complicated question without a clear-cut answer.
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May 2009 - The Blueprint for a Small Web Host
I was a little surprised by how difficult it became to see this idea through. We set out to assemble a blueprint for a small hosting business, but butted up pretty quickly against the general impossibility of covering all the territory that was out there to be covered. The basic constraints of a printed magazine, and the less-than-infinite amount of time we had available forced us to face the fact that we could never produce an exhaustive guide to starting a hosting company.
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