VeriSign, which is globally responsible for the domains during the .com and .net, has sent out statistics on the number of Internet domain names. Today there are over 183 million domain names registered! It is a part. I myself have about 10 pieces, I think.

The greatest is, of course .com. Most of us who have a small portfolio of domain names, holds well in all cases at least one under .com. That they are now very cheap to make it’s to. I remember when you had to sending a check for around 500 bucks to U.S. Internic for register a .com domain. It took well in all cases two weeks before you could start use it. Today, it takes a few minutes, and costs a few dollars.

Second place is held by China and their top-level domain .cn. It is a great country, and Internet user has exploded over the past years. It had been good if I could Chinese, then I had started a blog in that language. But my only contact with the language is all kung fu movies I have seen, and phrases like “You killed my master!” That will I not coming far with the …

It is followed by Germany (.de), United Kingdom (.uk) and Holland (.nl). Spain is not on the top 10 list, which can be explained by it for many years were difficult to register an .es domain. Nowadays, it is growing very quick and large, so maybe we can pinch one of the top positions ahead? This article did I found in TjK blog.

If you run a website – whether it’s a great e-shop or a small private blog – it is always both fun and interesting to follow the statistics of how many visits the page, what they read and what’s popular, and so further. To do this you need a statistics tool, of course.

Usually has some sort of program essentially tells you how many visitors they encountered each day, if that. Sometimes people just an ordinary counter ticking up a step each time someone visits the page. It is easy to become comfortable and satisfied with it. I myself have been one, until I installed Google Analytics.

Analytics is free and although it looks very advanced out the first time you look at it, so it is easy to install and get started with. When one then begins to look a little more on the statistics you get, you realize how much information you can get. That is also why Google Analytics is having on the spot number 2 in instantShifts list of the 55 best ways tools for Track your Website daily traffic.

Internet Users in Turkey Spend More Time Online and Consume More Pages than Users in Other European Countries

London, U.K., May 27, 2009 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its first report examining the online behavior of Internet users in Turkey, based on data from the comScore World Metrix audience measurement service. In April 2009, more than 17 million people in Turkey age 15 and older accessed the Internet from a home or work location, consuming an average 3,044 pages per visitor.

Seventh Largest Online Population in Europe

Of the 17 European countries individually reported by comScore, Germany’s online audience was the largest with 40 million visitors in April 2009, followed by the U.K. (36.8 million visitors), and France (36.3 million visitors). The Internet audience in Turkey was the seventh largest with 17.8 million visitors, making it the second largest country in Eastern Europe behind Russia (31.3 million visitors). Internet users in Turkey were also found to be the most engaged users in Europe, spending an average 32 hours and viewing an average 3,044 pages of content per month.

 *Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs. comScore estimates the size of Turkey’s extended online universe, which includes all access points and those under the age of 15, to be 26,751,449.

“The online population of Turkey far surpasses the rest of Europe in terms of time spent and content consumed per person,” said Mike Read, SVP and managing director, comScore Europe. “Much of this heavy engagement is driven by usage of social networking and entertainment media sites, which maintain users’ attention for extended periods of time. There are certainly excellent digital marketing and advertising opportunities in reaching these 17 million Internet users who are so engaged with the medium.”