According to Sedo’s front page Russia.com has been sold for $1,500,000 USD.

The whois info shows that the domain is still with Sedo transfer service, but it should change hands soon since Sedo has already announced the sale. It’ll be exciting to see who the new owner is.

Bing has put the number of web pages at “over 1 trillion”, while Google had earlier indexed more than one trillion discreet web addresses.

The current global population stands at more than 6.7 billion, which means that there are about 150 web addresses per person in the world.

And this could mean that if a person spent just one minute reading every website in existence, then he or she would be kept busy for 31,000 years, without any sleep.

“An average person would need six hundred thousand decades of nonstop reading to read through the information,” News.com.au quoted Bing as saying.

Mark Higginson, director of analytics for Nielsen Online, said that the global online population had jumped 16 per cent since last year.

“Approximately 1.46 billion people worldwide now use the internet which represents a solid 16 per cent increase from the previous year’s estimate (1.26 billion in 2007),” he said.

The largest Internet population belongs to China, with 338 million users online, which is more than there were people in the US.

However InternetWorldStats.com (IWS), a website that combines multiple data sources, has claimed that China’s online population is more like 298 million.

“With the rates of India and China still quite low, there is ample room for growth in the coming decade,” said Higginson.

But, measuring the online population could be tricky-there are servers, users, per capita numbers, and penetration percentages to evaluate.

And thus it is difficult to find a single figure to represent the world online population.

IWS combined data from the UN’s International Telecommunications Union, Nielsen Online, GfK and US Census Bureau, and its latest global figures puts the number of internet users in the world at 1,596,270,108.

And this is just 23.8 per cent of the estimated 6,0706,993,152 people in the world. But it changes every day.

“In terms of the future, we anticipate mobile to contribute significantly to internet usage,” said Higginson.

According to IWS, the top 5 countries with the most internet users are:

1 – China (298,000,000 users, or 22.4 percent of their population) 2 – US (227,190,989, or 74.7 percent) 3 – Japan (94,000,000, or 73.8 percent) 4 – India (81,000,000, or 7.1 percent) 5 – Brazil (67,510,400, or 34.4% percent).

Application requests can be made by the general public without any restriction or priority rights, and will be accepted on a first come, first served basis. As usual, a local presence in the Netherlands is not required.

CO.NL has engendered great interest from brand owners, companies and individuals. Sander Scholten, CO.NL General Manager, comments, “We are delighted by the results we have achieved and people’s engaged response to this new International extension. The .CO.NL is already seen as a successful alternative way to enter the Dutch market and position a brand or a company as part of the International community. The Go Live period is an opportunity for anyone to do exactly the same”.

The generic names and brands registered during the first phases are already active in the namespace, gathering a lot of International traffic and page views from Internet users. Scholten adds “The suffix “.co.” is used and understood in many addresses worldwide, which makes registering a name ending in .co.nl the right choice. Take advantage of the Go live period to get yours!”

Your can register your CO.NL domain names here: domain.co.nl

A .tel domain is a single point of contact that is easy to manage and which can be used to help anyone get in touch with you in the way you want them to. Easier to remember than a telephone number and accessed from any browser or search engine even on mobile devices, a .tel domain means you’ll never be lost to people again.

On March 24th at 3.00 p.m. GMT/UTC, anyone will be able to purchase a .tel domain with prices ranging from USD $15 to $35, depending on the range of services available from your .tel service provider.

BTPS7 – 20% any order of $50 or more

OYH1 – 10% off whatever

OYH2 – $5 off a $30 purchase

BTPS4 – 10% off anything

chill1 – 10% off

chill2 – $5 off $30

chill3 – $7.45 .coms

hash1 – 10% off

hash2 – $5 off $30

hash3 – $7.45 .com registration

gdd1101c – 10% off any order of $40 or more

The company explains that since February 1st of 1989 (date in which the .MX extension was created), the registration of .MX domain names under the first level were restricted, only to be used by universities and other education institutions. Later, in 1996 the .EDU.MX extension was created and registrations directly under the .MX TLD was closed. The company adds that so far the available extensions for .MX domain names are the following: .COM.MX, GOB.MX, EDU.MX, ORG.MX and .NET.MX.

It states that the re-opening of the .MX will be done in phases, taking into consideration that it will give priority to the current holders of .MX domains under the current available classifications. The company also says that it will communicate on February the generalities of each phase of the reopening process for .MX, which will be launched early this May.

It avers that Telnic Limited, the registry operator for the .tel domain, reported that within hours of opening the registration period for trademark owners, Google, Apple, Microsoft, and thousands of other leading brands applied for their respective .tel domain extension.

Mark Boost, Managing Director, www.LCN.com, said: “The .tel domain is very different to conventional domains such as .com and .co.uk. ”The .tel has huge potential for individuals and SMEs as it allows them to create an online presence for themselves or their business in a matter of minutes without the need for any web design knowledge.”

“With a .tel domain, an individual can set different levels of access to their contact information, allowing friends and family to have full view of their contact details, while hiding specific information from unknown Web surfers and search engines.” noted Boost.

“We are delighted to acquire fly.com for our new offering,” said Brian Clark, senior vice president and general manager, search products, Travelzoo. “The name is a perfect match for Travelzoo’s renowned approach: simple, fun, and world class. Where others see doom and gloom we see opportunities to serve travelers and advertisers with innovative approaches to finding the best values in travel.”

The domain name purchase was brokered by Sedo.com, LLC.

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