Domain
Facts
- A
website name consists of up to 22 letters, numbers
and dashes. That is: 31,700,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
possible .com names, yet there's a shortage of desirable
addresses.
- More
than 125,000 domain names are registered
per month. Three years ago the rate was only 200
per month.
- The
details of most website name sales are not made
public. Some reported sales include: $150,000
for business.com and $100,000 for Internet.com.
The owner of television.com turned down a $50,000
offer.
- .com
is the international standard for commercial websites.
Domain
Name History:
In
the the 1970's, each computer connected to the Internet
received a unique 'address,' such as 216.234.85.142.
This address, known as the Internet Protocol or
IP addressing system, allowed all networked computers
to be located on the Internet. When someone wanted
to access a page on the Internet, they would type
in the numbered address of that site.
As
the number of users using the Internet together
increased, it became necessary to create an easier
system than the confusing address system of long
numbers. In the 1980's, a team from the University
of Wisconsin developed the first 'name server',
which is the existing addressing system used today.
Later the Domain Name System was implemented and
the introduction of the first top-level domains
which made .com, .net., .org domains available.
As a result, you no longer had to remember 216.234.85.142.
Instead, you could simply type in yourdomain.com
.
In
the 1990's the Internet began to be used more and
more. This growth spawned a white paper in 1998
published by the U.S. Department of Commerce. This
document established ICANN and the start of competition
in the domain registration industry by breaking
up the Network Solutions monopoly and allowing private
organizations to become domain registrars.
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