More Internet Information Sources and Usage Statistics

• Internet
  Internet description from Wikipedia, history, creation, growth, structure, uses and other basic data.
  
  
• Internet Traffic Report
  The Internet Traffic Report monitors the flow of data around the world. It then displays a value between zero and 100. Higher values indicate faster and more reliable connections.
  
  
• The CAIDA Web Site
  CAIDA, the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis, provides tools and analyses promoting the engineering and maintenance of a robust, scalable global Internet infrastructure.
  
  
• Internet News
  Internet dot com provides enterprise IT and Internet Industry professionals with the news, information resources and community they need to succeed in today’s rapidly evolving IT and business environment.
  
  
• Detailed Domain Count
  Statistics on the number of active domains and those deleted from the Internet each day.
  
  
• Web Browser Statistics
  Statistics and trends in browser usage, operating systems and screen resolution.
  
  
• Top Level Domain Count
  Statistics on distribution of Top-Level Domain Names by Host Count.
  
  
• ClickZ Stats
  ClickZ Stats is a guide to Internet statistics, Internet marketing demographics, Internet advertising research, e-commerce trends.
  
  
• RefDesk
  Reference source to Internet Usage.
  
  
• Net Craft
  Netcraft provides network security services, and market research on many aspects of the Internet.
  
  
• Internet History
  The Living Internet is recommended reading as a general reference to Internet history.
  
  

• Renesys
  The Internet Intelligence Authority, Renesys® is the leading provider of objective, critical intelligence on the worldwide state of the Internet. Intensive data collection on every continent with innovative, proprietary software. Optimized algorithms gather real-time data from the Internet backbone, around-the-clock.
  
  
• ICANN
  The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, better known as ICANN, is responsible for managing and coordinating the Domain Name System (DNS) to ensure that every address is unique and that all users of the Internet can find all valid addresses. It also ensures that each domain name maps to the correct IP address. ICANN is also responsible for accrediting the domain name registrars.
  
  
• Internet Domain Survey
  The Domain Survey attempts to discover every host on the Internet by doing a complete search of the Domain Name System.
  
  
• RIPE NCC
  One of the four Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) providing Internet resource allocations, registration services and co-ordination activities that support the operation of the Internet globally.
  
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• APNIC
  One of the four Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) APNIC provides allocation and registration services which support the Asia Pacific region.
  
  
• ARIN
  One of the four Regional Internet Registries (RIRs), ARIN - the American Registry for Internet Numbers - manage the Internet numbering resources for North America, a portion of the Caribbean, and sub-equatorial Africa.
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• LACNIC
  One of the four Regional Internet Registries (RIRs), LANIC- The Latin American and Caribbean Internet Addresses Registry - is the organization that administrates IP addresses space, Autonomous System Numbers (ASN), reverse resolution and other resources of the Latin American and Caribbean region (LAC).
  
  
• AfriNIC
  AfriNIC (in formation) for the purpose of managing the IP addressing in the African continent. In the future it is expected that African organizations that presently obtain IP address space from RIPE or ARIN will obtain the IP addresses space from the AfriNIC.
  
  
• Network Startup Resource Center
  The NSRC provides technical and engineering assistance to international networking initiatives building access to the public Internet, especially to academic/research institutions and non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
  
  
• W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
  The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. W3C is a forum for information, commerce, communication, and collective understanding.
  
  

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