Interesting facts about the Internet industry
At the moment, it is considered that the rough value of the Internet industry is somewhere around $1.5 trillion. By 2012, this industry is projected to increase to almost $4 trillion, almost 3 times bigger than it is now. As more people will obtain access to the Internet, it is only natural to assume that the number of those that will get involved will increase. More pople will buy domain names, and the activity on social media will increase. Find below curious facts about the growing online market.
Domain names
Each year, the total amount of domain sales exceeds $250 million The average price for a premium domain is more than $20,000 2012 closed with more almost 129 million registered domain names The longest domain name is www.thelongestdomainnameintheworldandthensomeandthensomemoreandmore.com FB.com was sold to Facebook for almost $9 million There are 676 possible two letter domain names (not sure if there’s one free, though) Most expensive domain name ever – sex.com, was sold for $13 million
Internet users and email
There were 3.1 billion email accounts by the end of 2011 / 89% of it were spam Daily, people send almost 300 billion email messages There are 2.1 billion Internet users in the world, 485 million of them are in China There are more devices connected to the Web than living human beings There are 83 million web-connected smartphones
Emoticon, images and ads
Kevin Mackenzie made the first emoticon in 1979 -) The next, “more advanced” emoticon, was meant to be read sideways :-) AT&T bought the first banner (468×60) ad in 1994 from HotWired 30 seconds of 2012 Superbowl ads cost $3.5 million The cost for 1000 views on Facebook range from $2 to $8 100 billion images on Facebook by the mid of 2011 4.5 million pictures are daily uploaded to Flickr
Social media, video
There were 100 million active Twitter users in 2011 250 million tweets are being sent every day There are 70 million WordPress blogs The number of social networking accounts amounts to almost 2.5 billion 48 hours of YouTube video is being uploaded every minute There are 1 trillion playbacks on YouTube so far U.S holds almost 77% of YouTube’s market share
