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Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Who are the main people behind the Zooknic Internet
Geography Project?
Q: Will you continue to do weekly updates to domain name
counts/geography/markets?
Q: Will you share/sell this data?
Q: Are you available for specific consulting projects?
Q:What kind of domain name data do you have?
Q: Is there another reliable source for this kind of data on gTLDs?
Q: Do you have data for a particular city, country, zip code?
Q: Do you have a list companies with dotcom addresses that I could
use for sales leads?
Q: Do you have information on the reselling of domain names?
Q: Do you have any projections of future growth of domain names?
Q: Do you have data on the distribution of Internet Users?
Q:Who are the main actors behind the Internet Geography
Project and Zooknic?
The Internet Geography Project was started by Matthew Zook, Ph.D. in a
effort to understand how this new communications technology was shaping the
economic and geographic space in which businesses operate. More
information about him including his c.v. can be found at
www.zook.info. He received a Masters
degree from Cornell University and a Ph.D. from the University of California,
Berkeley. He has provided consulting services to domain name registries,
registrars, registrants and analysts around the world since 2001.
Q: Will you continue to do weekly updates to domain name
counts/geography/markets?
Starting in January 2001 we began to collect the domain name counts,
geography and market data on a weekly basis. In November 2002 we began to
update the data on a daily basis.
If you are interested in gaining access to the data, please visit our
Domain Name Analysis page for a listing
of our offerings. The data (beginning weekly in January 2001) is based on the root zone files.
The data can be parsed in the following ways:
- Total number of com/net/org/edu domains;
- Newly registered com/net/org/edu domains;
- Newly expired com/net/org/edu domains; and
- Nameservers ranked by number of domains served.
We also take a sample of randomly selected domain names (see FAQ)
in order to derive the following data:
- Com/net/org/edu domains by country;
- Com/net/org/edu domains by country and postal code;
- New com/net/org/edu domains by country;
- New com/net/org/edu domains by country and postal code;
- Registrars' share of com/net/org/edu domains
- Registrars' share of com/net/org/edu domains by country
- Registrars' share of new com/net/org/edu domains
- Registrars' share of new com/net/org/edu domains by country
Q: Will you share/sell this data?
Yes. Check out our consulting and products page
for further information.
In addition, this website offers a number of free data sources and
analysis. These include (1) com domains per US state, (2) total number of domains, (3) top countries, and (4) research
papers/articles on the data. Generally we do not make other aggregations of this
data, e.g. MSA or city, freely available because of the time it took to assemble it.
However, we are always open to requests and in the past have consulted
or simply passed along data depending on the nature of the project.
Q: Are you available for specific consulting projects?
Yes. We've done a number of specialized projects for registries,
registrars and analysts. Check out our
consulting and products page or
email us with the details of your request.
Q: What kind of domain name data do you have?
The Internet Geography Project has data on the number and geographical distribution of
gTLD domain names (com, org, and net) for July 1998, January 1999, July 1999, January
2000, July 2000 and January 2001. The July 1998 is a full survey and the other time
periods are random four percent samples of the total population. Starting in January 2001
we have begun to collect a much smaller sample of data on a weekly basis.
The geographic location of a domain is determined by the registration address that is
returned from a whois query. This registration data
is parsed by country and postal code and then aggregated to any number of geographic
levels such as county, city, MSA, or state.
Data on ccTLD, .e.g., .uk or .de, is limited to the total number of these domains
(sometimes broken down to second level domains, i.e. .co.uk or .ac.uk,) for the same time
periods.
To get a list of dates from which we have data please consult
here.
Q: Is there another reliable source for this kind of data on gTLDs?
Unfortunately not to my knowledge. This was the major spur to start this project.
Q: Do you have data for a particular city, country, zip code?
Yes. The data, both for the United States and other countries, can be aggregated to any
level of geography larger than a postal code.
Q: Do you have a list companies with dotcom addresses that
I could use for sales leads?
No.
Q: Do you have information on the reselling of domain
names?
We have also recently started exploring this topic. Check out our
consulting and products page or
email us with the details of your request.
Check out the new Domain Name Market section of this
website. If you want to sell a domain name try Great
Domains.
Q: Do you have any projections of future growth of domain
names?
Yes. We can and do make projections based on our data but are not posting
them to the website at this time. For more information please
email us.
Q: Do you have data on the distribution of Internet Users?
Yes. Check out the Internet users section of this
website.
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