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The NET zone-file is 130 MiB compressed, 676 MiB uncompressed. It currently holds 8,365,033 domain names.

Distribution of names

Length of domain names

Domain names by first character

As with the COM top level domain the four characters S,C,M and A are occuring often, the reason for W being the top on the list is detailed in the section about first three characters. M occurs more often than A in the NET zone file, while these letters were shifted in the COM zonefile.

Domain names by first three characters

11.7% of the total domain NET domain names in the zone-file begins with the letter combination "www". This explains the high number of occurences in the first character for W. The following 4 characters follows the distribution found when looking directly at the first character.