March 8, 2006 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Internet research firm Netcraft (netcraft.com) announced the results of its March 2006 Web server survey this week, pointing to data it believes indicates an increase in speculative buying activity within the domain market.
According to Netcraft, the survey received responses from 77,568,868 sites this month, an increase of 1.38 million from the February 2006 survey. The company says it found 2.8 million new hostnames this month, but just 237,000 new active sites, an unusually low ratio of one new active site for every 12 new hostnames. That ratio had been as close as one in five as recently as September 2005.
The company says the change means more new hostnames are being parked, probably the result of increased media coverage of domain investing. The coverage may be prompting more domain purchases for ad revenue or resale, rather than for use directly with Web sites.
The market share of the major Web server brands was influenced this month by infrastructure changes at major hosting providers. Apache’s gain of 1.5 million hostnames included a boost of more than 950,000 new hostnames at Go Daddy. The company had recently been reclassified as “unknown” in the Netcraft survey do to front-end hosting changes. The shift gives Apache a boost of 0.7 percent in market share.
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