Interesting facts about domains from DataGenetics

Programmer Nick Berry, the creator of the DataGenetics resource, which collects and analyzes information on the Internet, has published a number of interesting facts about domain names. Some of them are just curious, some may be interesting for site owners and domain investors.

Do you know that:

102.8 million domain names are registered in the zone. COM, but only 12.54% of similar names are registered in the .NET zone. At the same time, 86% of domains in the .NET zone have analogues in the .COM zone.
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The average length of a domain name in the zone. COM is 12 characters, and in the .NET zone it is 11 characters.

In the zone. 26169 domains-palindromes (letter combinations or words that are equally read from left to right and from right to left).

11.8% of domains in the .COM zone contain a hyphen.

But only 9% of domains in the zone. COM contain at least one digit.

The most common letter in second-level domains is “E”.

Domain names most often begin with the letter “S” and end with it.

A more detailed analysis can be found on the DataGenetics website.