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As of late 2019, there were about 3,6×10⁹ domain names registered it seems[11]. Taking "ycombinator.com" and keeping just the 11 ycombinator letters, and suppo
by psychoslave 6y ago
As of late 2019, there were about 3,6×10⁹ domain names registered it seems[11].
Taking "ycombinator.com" and keeping just the 11 ycombinator letters, and supposing you would allow only the 26 letters of alphabet, that's about 3.6×10¹⁶. That is 7 order of magnitude bellow the number of registered entries.
The only scarcity here is the manufactured one.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20190829_verisign_q2_2019_industry_brief_internet_grows_to_354_7_m_domains/ http://www.circleid.com/posts/20190829_verisign_q2_2019_indu...
- Rotten194 6y agolets start two companies. i'll take coolnewcorp.com, and you can have qwrfggtylop.com. seems fair!
- rasengan 6y agoActually you’re absolutely correct. If there wasn’t scarcity built in, someone would simply take all the names in a Sybil attack.
- gbear605 6y agoWhile the number of possible domain names is very high, the number of valuable ones is much lower.