Too Many Domains? Or Just The Start?

It may be hard to imagine life without the Internet, but turn back the clock 25 years and they didn’t even exist. Now it’s likely that you can name more domains you use than friends you have. Have a guess at how many website domains have been registered in this period, and you’ll probably not be close. 192 million. Don’t forget that’s just the domain, not the web pages on that domain. This means the total number of pages runs into billions and keeps growing.

So where will this all go? Will there be a point where there simply are no more domains that people want to buy? Will it get to the point where we only buy and sell existing domains or wait for a company to fail and snap up their site name?

Well the rise of new domain extentions like .biz and .info has given more choice for businesses to choose existing phrases but with a different ending. The only problem that constantly arises with this is the ‘passing off’ rule, where it could be seen that you are trying to gain traffic from a similarly named website on a .com extention, for example.

Introduction of new domain endings will no doubt solve the problem to a degree, but there has been plenty of talk about opening up the whole process to include unlimited extension’s. This could see combinations like seo dot seo or kitchen dot appliances.

The variations at this point would surely see decades worth of domains being available in terms of time. Rather than flooding the market, the end result would still be the best most relevant domains getting to the top of the search engines. There may be billions of poor pages online but the majority are never found.

Here are a list of the current domain extension’s available Worldwide by country code:

domain name extensions
ae      United Arab Emirates
ai      Anguilla
ar      Argentine Republic
arpa    Advanced Projects Research Agency
at      Austria
au      Australia
be      Belgium
bg      Bulgaria
bh      Finland
bm      Bermuda
bo      Bolivia
br      Brazil
ca      Canada
ch      Switzerland
cl      Chile
cn      People’s Republic of China
co      Colombia
com     Commercial
cr      Costa Rica
cy      Cyprus
cz      Czech Republic
de      Federal Republic of Germany
dk      Denmark
do      Dominican Republic
ec      Ecuador
edu     Education
ee      Estonia
eg      Arab Republic of Egypt
es      Spain
fi      Finland
fj      Fiji
fo      Faroe Islands
fr      France
gb      Great Britain
ge      Georgia
gl      Greenland
gov     Government
gr      Greece
gu      Guam
hk      Hong Kong (Hisiangkang, Xianggang)
hr      Croatia / Hrvatska
hu      Hungary
id      Indonesia
ie      Ireland
il      Israel
in      India
int     International
is      Iceland
it      Italian Republic
jm      Jamaica
jo      The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
jp      Japan
kr      Korea
kw      Kuwait
ky      Cayman Islands
kz      Kazakhstan
lc      Saint Lucia
li      Principality of Liechtenstein
lt      Lithuania
lu      Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
lv      Latvia
mil     Military
mo      Macau (Ao-me’n)
mt      Malta
mx      United Mexican States
my      Malaysia
net     Network
ni      Nicaragua
nl      Netherlands
no      Norway
nz      New Zealand
org     Organization
pa      Panama
pe      Peru
ph      Philippines
pl      Poland
pt      Portuguese Republic
ro      Romainia
ru      Russian Federation
se      Sweden
sg      Singapore
si      Slovenia
sk      Slovakia
su      Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
th      Thailand
tr      Turkey
tt      Trinidad & Tobago
tw      Taiwan
ua      Ukraine
ug      Uganda
uk      United Kingdom of Great Britain
us      United States of America
uy      Uruguay
ve      Venezuela
za      South Africa
zm      Zambia

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