Web Survey 2006
As per netcraft’s results… Jan 2006 posted a 897K increase in sites from December values… This further shows that the domain population is still in an upward trend even though the market corrected itself last month with a 1 million drop of site subscribers/domains.
This was attributed to the 1 million names given for free by Zipa not being renewed after the 60 day period expired…
It’s still good to be in the domain registration business… what a great way to start a year… 
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