Today CNN announced the Internet now has 100 million (100,000,000) web sites “with domain names and content on them.” They provided several interesting accompanying statistics.
“There were just 18,000 Web sites when Netcraft, based in Bath, England, began keeping track in August of 1995. It took until May of 2004 to reach the 50 million milestone; then only 30 more months to hit 100 million, late in the month of October 2006.”
Wonder how many of those are bogus sites set up temporarily for fraudulent, such as phishing, purposes?
It truly is amazing that in just about 10 years the Internet went from virtually no ecommerce activities to now having literallly millions as a subset of the 100 million total.
I would like to see associated statistics about fraud and crime, and the new types that have emerged from the mid-1990’s, and how the Internet facilitates or launches such crimes. Something different than the Carnegie Mellon CERT stats; something that, perhaps if they would pool their information, the U.S. Secret Service, FBI, CIA and perhaps other agencies could accumulate. Do any of you know of such a report or study? I couldn’t find any through my searches.
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