site review www.hosterstats.com

jmcc

I've added a hoster statistics section to www.hosterstats.com
covering the domain hosting stats for approximately 2.9 million hosters back to 2000. The stats for any hoster can be checked by entering the domain name of the hoster's DNS (eg: eircom.net).

This is the historical view for some of the ISPs and shows how the have performed in the past:

http://www.hosterstats.com/HistoricalDomainStatistics.php?hoster=eircom.net
http://www.hosterstats.com/HistoricalDomainStatistics.php?hoster=esat.net

The detailed stats pages cover domain hosting counts, domain registration growth, domain transfer trends and domain retention.

Does the tabbed navigation make sense?

Is it better to stick with the php page names rather than attempting some mod_rewrite prettification?

Are Flash graphs better than using PHP to generate image based graphs?

Regards...jmcc

bigbadcon

Just a small thing.. If you put in the www it doesnt seem to pick up the domain name

jmcc

bigbadcon wrote: »

Just a small thing.. If you put in the www it doesnt seem to pick up the domain name

On the domain history or the hoster stats?

Normally the www. should be stripped on the domain history for the search. It should return the history for the domain part. It only searches on the domain name basis. I have a table with the nameserver to domain mapping under development.

Regards...jmcc

jmcc

It is on the hoster statistics search. The search is based on the domain name of the hoster rather than the full host name of the nameserver (example.tld rather than dns.example.tld). Writing a hostname validation routine is going to take a bit of work.

Regards...jmcc

bigbadcon

On the hoster stats.

steve-hosting36

Have you looked at combining nameservers where company's have multiples? An example is register365, which have two sets of primary DNS (the legacy, and the new) This would give a more accurate picture...

Nice data tho - and the graphs are excellent..

jmcc

steve-hosting36 wrote: »

Have you looked at combining nameservers where company's have multiples? An example is register365, which have two sets of primary DNS (the legacy, and the new) This would give a more accurate picture...

The best that could be done would be to create links to associated nameservers/hosters as otherwise it would involve redoing the entire database to get the number of unique domains hosted. Doing it on a small scale is easy but the when gets to .com size and over a million hosters, it becomes something that has to be built into the process.The secondary DNS linkages might also be helpful in this respect but it is a computability issue.

Nice data tho - and the graphs are excellent..

Thanks. The graphs make it understandable. I've two new pages to add later today that will show the numbers/graphs of new registrations and the numbers/graphs of deletions. It might be simpler to put them as line graphs on a single page.

Regards...jmcc