[UA-discuss] IDN growth - 9 million IDNs

[Marc Blanchet]

On 28 Nov 2019, at 11:42, John Levine wrote:

> In article <1574705869.1144451574913626657.JavaMail.root at tbms> you 
> write:
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>> The 2019 IDN World Report Shows 20% IDN Growth
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>> https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20191127005538/en/2019-IDN-World-Report-Shows-20-IDN
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>> Less than what I expected. Next year it should be more than 💯 
>> percent growth.
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> Their data appears to be of very low quality.
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> I just counted the IDNs in the .com zone, and found 941,000.

> I think that's less than
> there were last year.

concur. I just counted:
- 930303 IDNs in mid-august (3 months ago) .com zone.
- 922759 IDNs in yesterday’s .com zone.

(while for the same period, the (total) .com zone increased by ~1%)

obviously, this is only .com. YMMV

Marc.

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