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Main on January 4th, 2012 by Pingdom
Swedish hosting provider Binero has announced that it has DNSSEC-signed all of its customers’ .se domains. This brings the total amount of signed .se domains to more than 100,000 from the previous total of 5,000.
“Nearly one in ten Swedish domains are now validated against attacks with manipulated dns-information, like phishing,” Binero’s press release said.
It’s hard to find any worldwide numbers to compare to but ICANN reported yesterday that 88 TLDs (Top-Level Domains) are DNSSEC signed.
But what is DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) and why should you care whether your domains are signed with it or not?
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Main on December 23rd, 2011 by Pingdom
When visiting a website we usually expect it to have multiple pages.
But haven’t you also come across websites with just a single page? In other words, there’s just a homepage and nothing else to click on to.
Now it seems like the single-page website may be a dying breed. We looked at the numbers and here’s what we found.
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Main on March 31st, 2011 by Pingdom
As you may know if you’re a regular reader of this blog, sometimes we like to take a trip down memory lane. It’s time for another one of those trips, to the murky past of the Internet and the dawning World Wide Web of 1995.
Let’s start first with the people who actually use the Internet. How many were there back then?
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Main on January 12th, 2011 by Pingdom
What happened with the Internet in 2010?
How many websites were added? How many emails were sent? How many Internet users were there? This post will answer all of those questions and many, many more. If it’s stats you want, you’ve come to the right place.
We used a wide variety of sources from around the Web to put this post together. You can find the full list of source references at the bottom of the post if you’re interested. We here at Pingdom also did some additional calculations to get you even more numbers to chew on.
Prepare for a good kind of information overload. 
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Main on January 22nd, 2010 by Pingdom
What happened with the Internet in 2009?
How many websites were added? How many emails were sent? How many Internet users were there? This post will answer all of those questions and many more. Prepare for information overload, but in a good way.
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Main on July 27th, 2009 by Pingdom
How long have today’s most popular websites been around? This is a survey of when today’s top 50 websites began their lives.
What we here at Pingdom wanted to discover when we made this survey was not just how old the most popular sites are, but to see if we could discover any interesting trends based on that, and we think we did.
For the extra curious we’ve also included a table with the individual launch years for all of the top websites at the bottom of the article.
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Guest posts on June 25th, 2009 by Pingdom
This week Google launched a new Web community on code.google.com/speed. The goal is to help Web developers speed up their Web applications, but the long-term goal is even more ambitious; to work together to make the Web as a whole a lot faster.
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Main on January 22nd, 2009 by Pingdom
What happened with the Internet in 2008?
How many websites were added? How many emails were sent? How many blog posts were published? This post will answer those questions and many others with more interesting statistics than you can shake a stick at. 
We have used a wide variety of sources from around the Web. A full list of source references is available at the bottom of the post for those interested.
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Main on September 16th, 2008 by Pingdom
Back in 1996 the Web was starting to gain some serious momentum, but it was still just a few years old. Now in 2008, looking 12 years back into the past of the Web can be a both nostalgic and entertaining experience.
We have used the good old WayBack Machine (a.k.a the Internet Archive) to track down screenshots of what websites looked like back in 1996-97.
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Main on September 11th, 2007 by Pingdom
It is becoming increasingly common for both companies and individuals to monitor the uptime (availability) of their websites and servers. That way they can be notified of problems as soon as they occur and also view how their site has performed historically. However, not all monitoring is created equal. How useful uptime monitoring will be [...]
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