Quantifying the size of the hosting business, be it on a national, European or international scale, is something that fascinates people in the business and its observers.
There are a number of services and sites that aim to provide “market intelligence”, however they are sometimes anything but intelligent in their methodology or results.
DirectI’s webhosting.info, for example, ignores ccTLDs cannot differentiate between a registrar parking a bunch of domains on their nameservers and an actual hosting company. It also lists the .info registry as a hosting company, which skews the stats completely.
Other services, such as that provided by Netcraft, track server usage, hostnames to IP and other such data. Some of it is interesting. Some of it is tedious.
A new entrant in this arena is IPWalk which is currently “beta”.
The interface is attractive and very fast, though the information provided isn’t that different to Webhosting.info
What is interesting is that they seem to be intent on expanding to include other TLDs. At present they have data on CNOIB and .edu
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