Top 100 Largest Web Hosting companies in the world – 20.6% Market Share

Here is a list of the largest web hosting companies in the world and the number of domains registered to that company.

Top Hosting Companies World Wide

Rank	Hosting Company	Country	Market Share	Total Domains
1	WILDWESTDOMAINS.COM		20.6398 %	21,472,398
2	ENOM.COM		4.1407 %	4,307,682
3	NETWORKSOLUTIONS.COM		2.6597 %	2,766,986
4	ONEANDONE.COM		2.3949 %	2,491,508
5	YAHOO.COM		2.3286 %	2,422,551
6	SEDOPARKING.COM		1.7643 %	1,835,467
7	REGISTER.COM		1.565 %	1,628,095
8	DSREDIRECTION.COM		1.5457 %	1,607,998
9	DOMAINDELUXE.COM		1.0959 %	1,140,065
10	FABULOUS.COM		1.035 %	1,076,700
11	BUYDOMAINS.COM		0.8465 %	880,600
12	DREAMHOST.COM		0.7734 %	804,627
13	PARKED.COM		0.7169 %	745,785
14	BLUEHOST.COM		0.6495 %	675,730
15	XINNET.COM		0.6385 %	664,242

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Web Hosting Company Numbers – US is well ahead at 25,000 + Hosting Companies

Here is a list compiled of countries with the largest number of web hosting companies.
With the US having a huge market share in that area.

Country-wise Web Hosting Companies Data as of 02/16/09.

Country	Rank	Hosting Companies	Gain	Loss	Net Gain/Loss
United States	1	25,553	139	158	(19)
Canada	2	2,862	14	18	(4)
United Kingdom	3	2,761	13	14	(1)
Germany	4	2,314	6	4	2
Spain	5	1,653	8	10	(2)
Netherlands,The	6	1,594	16	8	8
Turkey	7	1,587	25	25	0
India	8	1,164	13	14	(1)
France	9	1,161	10	5	5
Italy	10	1,112	4	4	0

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Top 23 U.S. ISPs by Subscriber – AT&T, Comcast, Road Runner

Here is a compiled list of the Top 23 U.S. ISPs by Subscriber.

Rank	ISP	Subs. (millions)	Date & Source	Market Share
1	SBC (AT&T) (business and consumer DSL, U-Verse, and satellite—ISDN not disclosed)	14.8	[October 22, 2008] Press Release [.xls]	15.4%
2	Comcast (cable broadband)	14.7	[October 29, 2008] SEC 10-Q	15.3%
3	Road Runner (cable broadband, both business and residential)	8.6	[November 5, 2008] Trending Schedules	9.0%
4	Verizon (FiOS and DSL)	8.5	[October 27, 2008] Press Release [.xls]	8.8%
5	America Online (all U.S. AOL brand accounts)	7.5	[November 5, 2008] Trending Schedules	7.7%
6	EarthLink (DSL, dialup, cable, satellite, PLC, and webhosting—some other business lines not included)	3.0	[October 31, 2008] SEC 10-Q	3.1%
7	Charter (cable broadband)	2.9	[November 6, 2008] SEC 10-Q	3.0%
8	Qwest (DSL only)	2.8	[October 29, 2008] Press Release [.xls]	2.9%
9	Cablevision (cable broadband)	2.4	[November 6, 2008] SEC 10-Q	2.5%
10	United Online (counting paid access only)	1.5	[November 10, 2008] SEC 10-Q	1.5%
11	Embarq (DSL only, formerly part of Sprint)	1.4	[October 30, 2008] SEC 10-Q	1.4%
12	Windstream (DSL only, formerly ALLTEL and Valor)	.96	[November 7, 2008] SEC 10-Q	1.0%
13	Mediacom (cable broadband, dialup, and SMB broadband)	.73	[November 7, 2008] SEC 10-Q	0.8%
14	CenturyTel (DSL only, no dialup)	.63	[October 27, 2008] Press Release	0.7%
15	Citizens (DSL only)	.57	[November 10, 2008] Press Release	0.6%
16	Hughes Network Systems (satellite broadband)	.42	[November 5, 2008] SEC 10-Q	0.4%
17	Insight Broadband (cable broadband)	.42	[November 10, 2008] Press Release [.pdf]	0.4%
18	Clearwire (fixed wireless broadband)	.42	[November 10, 2008] SEC 10-Q	0.4%
19	LocalNet (dialup)	.26	ISP-Planet article (reconfirmed by e-mail on June 16, 2008)	0.3%
20	Cincinnati Bell (DSL only)	.23	[October 31, 2008] SEC 10-Q	0.2%
21	SureWest (broadband)	.10	[November 7, 2008] SEC 10-Q	0.1%
22	GCI (cable broadband)	.10	[November 5, 2008] Press Release (late SEC filing) [.pdf]	0.1%
23	ACS (DSL and dialup)	.055	[October 30, 2008] Press Release [.pdf]	0.1%
24	Other U.S. ISPs	23.2		24.1%

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Rackspace Buys Two Cloud Computing Firms For $11.5 Million

The hosted computing services company acquires Slicehost and Jungle Disk to compete head-on with Amazon Web Services.

SOURCE: InformationWeek

Rackspace, a provider of hosted computing services, is using two acquisitions to gain a bigger presence in the emerging market for cloud computing. It sees Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN)’s Web Services, perhaps the biggest name in cloud computing, as its top competitor. Rackspace announced Wednesday that it’s acquired Slicehost, a provider of hosted virtual servers, and Jungle Disk, a provider of online storage, for a combined $11.5 million.

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Rackspace Hosting – Razorfish Selects Rackspace for Their Cloud Services

SAN ANTONIO — Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE:RAX), the world’s leader in hosting, today announced that Razorfish™, one of the largest digital marketing companies in the world, has selected Rackspace’s cloud hosting platform.

Razorfish is working with Rackspace’s cloud hosting division, Mosso®, to build consumer-facing websites and web applications that can handle large traffic spikes during major promotions and product launches of brands. In particular, Razorfish develops microsites, community platforms, blogs, and web video for its clients using Rackspace’s Cloud Sites™ and Cloud Files™ hosting services.

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