Wednesday, January 02, 2002

"Domain name speculators are shutting up shop."

"Internet starts to shrink"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1738000/1738496.stm

"Domain name speculators are shutting up shop."
BBC News: Wednesday, 2 January, 2002, 13:19 GMT

"The net has shrunk ever so slightly. For only the second time ever, an authoritative monthly survey of the number of sites on the net has found fewer sites online than in the previous month. The fall has been put down to a drop in the number of registered domains. Despite the drop, the net remains hugely popular, and there are now over 36m sites in cyberspace."

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