.com,
.net, .org, .gov, .us Domain Names
The
death of .net, the rise of .org, and the madness of .com
.com
domains in top 500
(lines are thinner to show complexity)
- It
is clear that .com sites occupy most of the top 500.
- .com's
dominate the top 20 ranked web sites.
- The
top 20 domains have fairly consistent rank.
- Below
the top 20, and especially below the top 100, there is heavy
turnover.
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.net
domains in top 500
- .net
domains have consistently lost ground since July 2004 (59
to 26, a 56% loss).
- A
handful of .net sites have survived near the top of the
rankings, but have clearly downward trajectories.
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.org
domains in top 500
- The
top .org domains roughly split in Jan 2005, with half moving
up in rank and the other half dropping.
- In
July 2005, only six .org's placed in the top 500. This number
rebounds to about a dozen by Jan 2007.
- Two
.org's hold prominent, high rank positions: Wikipedia and
craigslist. Both also have strong, positive trajectories.
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.us
domains in top 500
- .us
domains are not very popular; only two are in the top 500.
(In Jan 07: imageshack.us at 49th and del.icio.us at 166th)
- Both
have solid, upward trajectories.
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.gov
domains in top 500
- The
three .gov domains in the top 500 seemed to have lost momentum
by Jan 06.
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Each
visualization is segmented by six lines, which represent dates approximately
six months apart. The first line is July 2004 and the final line
is January 2007. Web sites are ordered along each of these axes
according to their traffic rank. The site at the top is the most
visited web site on the internet, while the site at the bottom is
the 500th most visited. Movement in rank is visualized by colored
lines. Positive movement is shown in green while negative movement
is shown in red. The saturation of the color is proportional to
the intensity of the change. Neutral (horizontal) movement is rendered
in brown. If a web site enterers or leaves the top 500 list, its
line is shown starting or ending at the bottom of the graph (the
500th position). See captions for additional details.
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