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95,743,705 are currently being used. The amount of available domains is virtually unlimited due to the fact that you could have 'dsdijhfjkdf.com' as a domain.

JacobAldridge 15y ago
And, for an estimated $150K and some ICAAN paperwork, www.google.dsdijhfjkdf could be yours!
- bastiat 15y ago
  This is a completely useless comment. Also, I will abandon this HN account in 12 hours.... again.
  - JacobAldridge 15y ago
    I wouldn't say completely useless (note: I'm obviously biased here) - I was making a point about the ICANN announcement and its relationship to web property in the form of available URLs. Edit: ICANN - see below.
    - socillion 15y ago
      ICANN, not ICAAN. user: bastiat created:28 days ago karma: -44 That should speak for itself. You don't have to respond to absolutely everyone.
GMali 15y ago
And out of those, how many are parked?
- nt_mark 15y ago
  That's hard to analyse, however web traffic follows a power law distribution, http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/idl/papers/ranking/adamicglottometrics.pdf http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/idl/papers/ranking/adamicglot.... So, outside the top 100k sites in terms of traffic you could expect it's either parked or idle domains.
- hessenwolf 15y ago
  It is a study we would like to do. The plan is to select a random sample of domains for each length and query a source, e.g., Alexa, show a confidence interval by length for domain traffic. The stats hypothesis would be to test whether length can be used as a predictor of traffic.
  - janesvilleseo 15y ago
    I was taken aback by the 13 character length, I wonder how many of those are parked, what the average length is for the top 100,1000, 10000 sites according to Alexa/Google/Etc. I suspect there there is a nice split between the parked longer names and the shorter actually used as a website names.
    - nt_mark 15y ago
      ycombinator - 11 facebook - 8 Wikipedia - 9 googleusercontent.com - 21 Shorter domains definitely make sense, but probably not a good predictor in itself though they have aesthetic value.

JacobAldridge 15y ago

And, for an estimated $150K and some ICAAN paperwork, www.google.dsdijhfjkdf could be yours!

bastiat 15y ago
This is a completely useless comment. Also, I will abandon this HN account in 12 hours.... again.
- JacobAldridge 15y ago
  I wouldn't say completely useless (note: I'm obviously biased here) - I was making a point about the ICANN announcement and its relationship to web property in the form of available URLs. Edit: ICANN - see below.
  - socillion 15y ago
    ICANN, not ICAAN. user: bastiat created:28 days ago karma: -44 That should speak for itself. You don't have to respond to absolutely everyone.

GMali 15y ago

And out of those, how many are parked?

nt_mark 15y ago
That's hard to analyse, however web traffic follows a power law distribution, http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/idl/papers/ranking/adamicglottometrics.pdf http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/idl/papers/ranking/adamicglot.... So, outside the top 100k sites in terms of traffic you could expect it's either parked or idle domains.
hessenwolf 15y ago
It is a study we would like to do. The plan is to select a random sample of domains for each length and query a source, e.g., Alexa, show a confidence interval by length for domain traffic. The stats hypothesis would be to test whether length can be used as a predictor of traffic.
- janesvilleseo 15y ago
  I was taken aback by the 13 character length, I wonder how many of those are parked, what the average length is for the top 100,1000, 10000 sites according to Alexa/Google/Etc. I suspect there there is a nice split between the parked longer names and the shorter actually used as a website names.
  - nt_mark 15y ago
    ycombinator - 11 facebook - 8 Wikipedia - 9 googleusercontent.com - 21 Shorter domains definitely make sense, but probably not a good predictor in itself though they have aesthetic value.