Does anyone have a bunch of spare DAC capacity?

[Edwin]

If you've got a load of spare DAC capacity for any reason, it would be very interesting to see the result of the following test(s)

1. Download the Alexa 1,000,000 sites zip
http://s3.amazonaws.com/alexa-static/top-1m.csv.zip

2. Strip out just the sites that end in .co.uk (and count the total number of .co.uk sites)

3. See how many of those sites have matching .uk domains registered already

4. Do the same for the Quantcast 1,000,000 data
http://www.quantcast.com/quantcast-top-million.zip

We should then have some very solid, hard and fast numbers as to early .uk takeup compared to existing "active" .co.uk websites.

(Perhaps it's best to post to this thread if you're going to do one/both of the above exercises, to avoid duplication)

 

[Murray]

If you can give me the list of co.uks you want done and it's below 2500 I can do it

I'm limited to 5000 lookups a day so couldn't do it if it's more than 2,500, not in the next 24 hours anyway.

Can't be bothered to try and open a 1 million file of excel will freeze up my laptop.

Edit> wait I just realised I'm stupid wouldn't need to check if the co.uks are registered, so could do 5000

 

[Edwin]

Thanks for the offer, but there are 17,036 just in the Alexa file and 8,883 .co.uk entries in the Quantcast file.

 

[DaveP]

I can do this later when theres nothing good dropping but today theres good domains lol... I'll get back to you..

 

[Edwin]

Thanks for all the interest so far. I've had an offer by PM that looks like it will do the trick - watch this space

 

[SF]

I can do this later when theres nothing good dropping but today theres good domains lol... I'll get back to you..

Shucks, thought i was only one noticed them

 

[DaveP]

Shucks, thought i was only one noticed them

May the luckiest catcher win!

 

[redbird]

May the luckiest catcher win!

I presume you must all be after southwaleshaemorrhoidcentre.co.uk. That sounds like it is going to be a right pain in the *rse to catch if so many are after it

 

[Edwin]

The results from Alexa are here
http://www.acorndomains.co.uk/domain-name-news/126488-look-uk-registrations-alexa-score.html

Not sure what I'm going to do with the Quantcast data (if anything) as I really don't like the look of the original data much - doesn't pass the "sniff" test i.e. the top sites on their list are nowhere near the busiest in the UK, as far as I'm aware. Alexa's a blunt tool too, but on this occasion it at least feels much "closer" than Quantcast.