Report Includes a Historical Look at Internet Growth and an Overview and Statistics on Internet Hosts, Domain Names and the World Wide Web

Tue. May 27, 2008; Posted: 05:45 AM

DUBLIN, Ireland, May 27, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c92909) has announced the addition of "Global - Internet - Industry Overview" to their offering.

Growth in websites reached an all time high in 2006, and ISPs are thriving despite dire predictions over the years. With only around 16% of the global population online, there is still room for massive growth of the Internet, and mobile applications will assist this. The new Internet economy also opens up a range of new support functions for ISPs and Broadband Service Providers (BSPs), and new marketing opportunities are facilitated by the converging technologies.

The Internet companies will increasingly rely on the underlying Internet infrastructure for their success. This report includes an historical look at Internet growth, and an overview and statistics on Internet hosts, domain names, the World Wide Web, search engines and the ISP market. Detailed Internet penetration and user statistics are contained in a separate report. For technical information on the Internet, also see separate technical reports.

Contents:

1. Synopsis

2. The Internet and the web

3. Historical growth of the Internet

3.1 The Pentagon Internet (GIG)

4. Internet hosts

4.1 Domain names

4.1.1 USA - the world's major Internet host

4.1.2 Top-level domains are .com and .net

4.2 Native language Internet addresses

4.2.1 International/multilingual domain names

5. Web server software

6. The World Wide Web

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Browsers

6.2.1 Patent problems

6.2.2 Growth of Mozilla

7. Search engines

7.1 Google still the leader

8. Websites

8.1 Website growth

8.2 Website audience statistics

8.3 Internet portals

9. The ISP market

9.1 ISPs conquering the world

9.2 ISPs and the Internet Economy

9.3 Marketing strategies: the role of ISPS

9.4 Value-added ISPs are starting to arrive

10. Internet elasticity

11. Grid commuting will change the Internet - analysis

12. Related reports

Exhibit 1 - The phenomenon of the 1990s

Table 1 - Internet users - 1990 - 2006

Table 2 - Growth in the number of Internet hosts - 1984; 1991 - 2005

Table 3 - Number of Domain Names by country - August 2006

Table 4 - Generic top level domains - top 5 countries - market share - 2006

Table 5 - Major domain names by host - 2003 - 2006

Table 6 - Internet users by language - 2002; 2005

Table 7 - International domain names registered by country - 2004

Table 8 - Web server market share - 2003 - 2006

Table 9 - How people find websites

Table 10 - Percentage of online searches conducted on leading search engines in the US - 2006

Table 11 - Global market share of Google and Yahoo! - November 2005

Table 12 - Top 3 worldwide websites - 2006

Table 13 - Top 6 US websites and audience - combined home and work - March 2006

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