Categorising Hosters - The HosterStats Class

One of the hardest things in the hosting business is to actually classify hosters by the numbers of domains that they host. As a result, WhoisIreland.com has had to come up with the HosterStats Class. You can see it in action on the IEDR Resellers pages where each hoster has its own code. For example the largest hoster in Ireland, Hosting365 has a HosterStats Class of IE-HSP-D. Eircom.net has a HosterStats Class of IE-ISP-E.

The code itself is relatively simple:
The first two letters refer to the ISO code of the Country associated with the hoster. Thus for Ireland, that code is IE. For the UK, the code is UK and for the US, the code is US.

The next three letters refer to the hoster type. The ISPs are identified by the letters ISP. The pureplay hosters (Hosting Service Providers) are identified by the letters HSP. The web developers are WEB and the registries are identified by the letters REG.

The next letter refers to the number of domains that the hoster has hosted on its nameservers.

A: More than 1 Million domains hosted.
B: 100K - 999,999 domains hosted.
C: 50K - 99999 domains hosted.
D: 10K - 49999 domains hosted.
E: 5000 - 9999 domains hosted.
F: 1000 - 4999 domains hosted.
G: 500 - 999 domains hosted.
H: 100 - 499 domains hosted.
I: 10 - 99 domains hosted.
J: 1-9 domains hosted.
K: No Nameservers.

Irish HosterStats Reports

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Written by John McCormac on February 24th, 2006 with comments disabled.
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New IEDR Resellers Stats Pages

WhoisIreland.com has added new stats pages covering each hoster listed on the IEDR Resellers pages:

IEDR Resellers - Class A

IEDR Resellers - Class B

These stats pages cover the DNS data on each hoster and what country the DNS is hosted in, the numbers of domains on the hoster’s DNS over 2004 and 2005 and a yearly history for each hoster covering 2000 to 2005.

The descriptions of each of the hosters are a work in progress. If any of the hosters want to write their own blurb then they can e-mail me on jmcc at whoisireland.com

Some of the smaller IEDR Class B hosters do not operate their own DNS. The most obvious reason for this is that they are webdevelopers providing hosting services to their clients rather than pure play Hosting Services Providers (HSPs). WhoisIreland has been able to build up approximate stats for these hosters and where possible they will be listed with the description.

The number of hosters covered will be extended to all hosters with identified Irish domains. This update will include approximately 3500 hosters.

Irish HosterStats Reports

Tags: IrishBlogs,IEDR,IEDR Resellers, Domains, Internet Statistics , Webhosting

Written by John McCormac on February 24th, 2006 with comments disabled.
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