9 million domain names are just numbers without letters

Who may need domains that consist only of numbers? In general, some companies create such domains for themselves, specifying a phone number as their name. So do, for example, taxi companies. Domain names consisting only of numbers in gTLDs are not uncommon. About one in seven domains is a digital domain.

And how many of them can be in total, taking into account old and new domain zones? Of course, you can count, but for this you will need to do some pretty serious work. It was completed by employees of the Domains index company, and quite successfully.

The work was carried out according to the following algorithm:

1. Obtaining the current list of active domains in all possible zones, with the allocation of domains whose names contain only numbers;
2. Counting the number and percentage of “digital” domains;
3. Creating a spider that passes through a given range of addresses, figuring out some details about sites that are located on digital domains. Details - information about the language of the site, its name, owner, etc.
4. Analysis of the data and bringing them together.

After the first stage of the work, it turned out that ccTLD contains 1668669 active digital domains. In the old gTLD zones, there are 3870873 domains, and in the new ones, 3392851 domains. In total, 8932393 domain names out of 271 million domains consist entirely of numbers. This is a little over 3%.


The number of “digital” domains in different zones

As it turned out, in the new domain zones (.agency, .business, .travel) there are much more digital domains than in the old ones. About six times more.


As for the national zones, the most digital domains appeared in the .cn zone (China). This is explained quite simply. The fact is that Latin domain names for the average Chinese look strange and complicated. Therefore, the Chinese who do business online use numbers that the Chinese are familiar with.

In addition, the numbers used by the Chinese are not only as, but with meaning. For example, the number 5 in Chinese sounds the same as the word "I" in the same language. And six is ​​like a stream. Thus, for the Chinese, the domain name 56.cn may have a completely different meaning than for the European. It will be something like “I'm a streamer” or “I'm broadcasting”.

Here is a sorting by the absolute number of digital domain name registrations in national zones of different countries (10 most popular).

ccTLDs	Digital domains	Domains in the database	%
cn	1136168	5735111	19.81%
us	104617	2034891	5.14%
pw	61507	299157	20.56%
de	59315	16746948	0.35%
cc	44544	276891	16.09%
ru	34379	5923117	0.58%
nl	29760	6518194	0.46%
tk	26663	3729121	0.71%
uk	23416	3179518	0.74%
eu	20667	5403201	0.38%

But sorting by the percentage of digital domains in relation to the total number of domain names in different national zones.

ccTLDs	Digital domains	Domains in the database	%
pw	61507	299157	20.56%
cn	1136168	5735111	19.81%
cc	44544	276891	16.09%
gg	189	1565	12.08%
sv	5	70	7.14%
sh	122	1777	6.87%
cm	130	1938	6.71%
la	312	5694	5.48%
wf	eleven	202	5.45%
gd	142	2727	5.21%
us	104617	2034891	5.14%

Download the results of a full analysis of domain names at the end of the post.




And finally, the number of digital domain registrations in the most popular gLTD domain zones.

gTLDs	Digital domains	Domains in the database	%
com	2875333	129699424	2.22%
net	528933	15994682	3.31%
org	229659	12240795	1.88%
info	93569	6453142	1.45%
biz	80291	2385992	3.37%
pro	58756	378216	15.54%
cat	1545	111406	1.39%
name	1528	67791	2.25%
xxx	1139	104616	1.09%
tel	118	18665	0.63%
gov	2	5779	0.03%

Now you can see which digital domain names turned out to be the most popular in different zones (464 zones).

Numbers combination	The number of zones where such a domain is registered
888	402
360	382
123	357
420	316
666	299
365	299
100	292
0	289
8888	283
999	268
247	264
777	261
101	231
9999	230
168	229
417	226
111	223
1	217
333	216
321	216
88	215
555	214
520	211
24	207
1111	207
222	206
800	205
702	203

As for traditional gLTDs, here the only digital domain name that is registered in all these zones is "1000". Most popular digital domains have no more than 3-4 digits per name.

The longest domains are digital domains with 63 digits in the name (there are 50 registered in traditional gTLDs).

A complete set of data on all zones can be obtained at this link . For information, you need to enter only the mail and first name (without a surname or with a surname - optional). It's free.