In the first quarter of 2015, about how many domain names had been registered worldwide?
Answer294 million
The total kept climbing steadily through the 2010s and 2020s.
Source: Wikipedia: Domain name (2015) en.wikipedia.org
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As of December 2014, about how many of those .com domains were online business/e-commerce sites?
Answer11.9 million
E-commerce was already one of the biggest categories of .com websites a decade ago.
Source: Wikipedia: Domain name (2014) en.wikipedia.org
As of October 2009, how many generic top-level domains (like .com, .org, .net) existed?
Answer21
That number would explode a few years later once ICANN opened up new gTLDs.
Source: Wikipedia: Domain name (2009) en.wikipedia.org
As of July 2012, which had more domain registrations: the .com TLD alone, or every two-letter country-code domain (like .uk, .de) combined?
Answer.com had more than all ccTLDs combined
That shows just how dominant a single top-level domain can be.
Source: Wikipedia: Domain name (2012) en.wikipedia.org
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