The Australian Internet Growth Index Australian Cybermalls first began trying to estimate the approximate size of the Australian Internet in early 1996 when we commenced operations on the Internet. We do this each month as a service to our visitors.
Many companies register a domain purely for email purposes.
Many other domains have been registered by companies who plan to use them at some future time, but have yet to do so. In the earliest days of the Net in Australia, domains weren't seen as particularly important by many legitimate site operators. Many domains have been registered for purely speculative purposes . They aren't weeded out of the registry until the owners fail to renew them. We recognise that this is a far from perfect methodology .