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Monday, October 10, 2005

BBC NEWS | Technology | Web enjoys year of biggest growth: " Web enjoys year of biggest growth The web has grown more in 2005 than it did at the height of the dotcom boom, says a study. In the year to October the web grew by more than 17 million sites, says monitoring firm Netcraft. This figure exceeds the growth of 16 million sites seen in 2000 when net fever reached its most intense pitch. Netcraft said the rise was caused by small businesses going online, firms making the most of web advertising schemes and spammers. Growing pains In its October 2005 survey, Netcraft found 74.4 million web addresses, a rise of more than 2.68 million from the September figure. This jump of just under three million took the total growth in sites for 2005 past the previous record of 16 million seen five years ago. Domains have become the base for anything else folks want to do on the web Rich Miller, Netcraft By way of comparison Netcraft's monthly survey celebrated its tenth anniversary in August 2005. The first survey it ran, in the year that Amazon launched, found only 18,957 sites. Five years later the figure was 19.8 million. For Netcraft, a site is essentially a newly registered domain or net address, said Rich Miller, an analyst at the net monitoring firm. However, this count is complicated by the fact that the web allows many different sites, sometimes thousands, to hang off the same net address. Also many registrars who sell net names use unsold domains as holding pages to attract new trade. These pages may never be updated but do have a small amount of web content on them. As a result there can be a big difference between the total count of sites and so-called 'active sites' that are regularly updated. In the past it has been"

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