Web Hits 100 Million Sites

American Voices

November 17, 2006 | ISSUE 42•46

According to Internet-monitoring company Netcraft, there are now 100 million websites with unique domain names. What do you think?

100 million and one. Say hello to my new online petition at theinternetistoobig.com.

Babette Crain
Lighting Designer
That's just too many darn choices. I remember back when it was only w3.org and the alt.hypertext newsgroup. Man, those were the days.

Evan Meyers
Systems Analyst
Really? Because I could have sworn I've been to at least 150 million websites.

Quincy Daniels
Pharmacist's Assistant

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