Check domain IQ

Verisign has published a new quarterly report on the domain market and, as a bonus, added a domain quiz. Although I have been working with domains for more than six years, I have not guessed half the answers.

You can try for a morning warm-up (answers in the first comment):

1. English is the most popular language in the .COM zone. And what language is in second place?

• Deutsch
• Russian
• French
• Chinese
• Japanese
• Latin

2. Which site is linked most of all other sites?

• MySpace.com
• Twitter.com
• VK.com
• Facebook.com
• Google.com

3. A total of 4,984,474 recursive name servers in the world. How many of them are physically located in Asia?

• Less than 250 thousand
• About 800 thousand
• Somewhere between 1 and 2 million.
• More than 2 million

4. How many multilingual domains are there among .COM (where content is found in more than one language)?

• Less than 500 thousand
• Between 500 thousand and 1 million
• Between 1 and 3 million
• Between 3 and 5 million
• Between 5 and 10 million

5. How many domains among .COM sites have web servers located in more than one country?

• Less than 100 thousand
• Between 100 thousand and 1 million
• Between 1 and 5 million
• More than 5 million

6. What percentage of registered .COM never visited during the month of January 2010?

• Less than 1%
• 1% to 5%
• 5% to 10%
• 10% to 15%
• 15% to 25%

7. Among the 10,980,281 sites that are used for online business, about 640 thousand of them refer to which common domain?

• WebMoney.ru
• Google.com
• Paypal.com
• Twitter.com
• GetYour.net

8. In the DNS protocol, the system returns an NXD response to a request for a domain that is not in the zone. On average per day, how many unique .COM names give such an answer?

• Less than 100,000 unique domains
• Between 100,000 and 500,000 Unique Domains
• 500,000 to 1,000,000 unique domains
• Over 1,000,000 unique domains

9. Since 1985, the Verisign registry for .COM and .NET has processed over 1.5 billion new domain name registrations. How many of these registrations have unique names?

• About 86 million
• Almost 100 million
• Between 100 and 500 million
• Between 500 million and 1 billion
• More than 1 billion