14 DAY TRIAL // According to Netcraft, which conducted a survey using 67,571,58 sites, in June, 2.76 million hostnames were recorded, this month having the second-largest growth in the history of Internet. The only larger gain was a 3.3 million hostname increase in March 2003, which ended months of stagnation and kicked off 30 consecutive months of positive growth for the Web.
Among the factors that contributed to this historic growth, the site mentions:
- Increasing use of the Internet by small businesses as web sites and online storefronts become more affordable.
- The explosive growth of weblogs, a growing number of which are purchasing domains for branding purposes.
- Speculation in the market for domain names, buoyed by rising resale prices and the ability to generate revenue via pay-per-click advertising on parked domains.
- Strong sales of online advertising, especially keyword-based contextual ads that support business models for both domain parking and commercial weblogs.
From the total of 67,571,58 hostnames, only approximately 3,000,000 were active.
The server market is clearly dominated clearly by Apache, which runs on 45,172,895 of the servers, 69.7%, followed by Microsoft, with 13,131,361, 20.26%, and Sun with 1,849,471, 2.85%. The last position is occupied by Zeus, with 580,844, 0.90%.
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