Strong Growth in Top US and European Hosting Providers

This months Hosting Provider dataset shows US and German companies to be making the largest gains over the last month, with the top ten companies evenly spread between Europe and America.

Top Hosting Providers By Growth in Hostnames, Sept 03 to October 03
Hoster Parent	Sep 03	Oct 03	Growth	% Growth	Primary Region
1&1 Internet AG	3,293,408	3,443,442	150,034	4.6%	Europe
GoDaddy Inc	1,373,672	1,467,264	93,592	6.8%	America
IP Exchange GmbH	57,242	128,835	71,593	125.1%	Europe
EV1Servers.net	550,808	601,393	50,585	9.2%	America
Strato AG	1,867,652	1,910,975	43,323	2.3%	Europe
NTT/Verio	1,090,419	1,130,789	40,370	3.7%	America
Host Europe	492,388	526,971	34,583	7.0%	Europe
Yahoo!	486,868	515,306	28,438	5.8%	America
ThePlanet.com	71,975	96,157	24,182	33.6%	America
Fasthosts	352,224	373,281	21,057	6.0%	Europe

The massive 1&1 Internet AG continues to gain the largest number of hostnames (+151K), followed by GoDaddy (+93.5K), which launched a new shared hosting service in August, IP Exchange GmBH (+71.6K) and EV1Servers.Net (50.6K).

German provider IP Exchange GmBH had the largest percentage growth, growing by over 125% in this period, mainly through new sites. ThePlanet once again shows the largest percentage growth of US hosters, growing by 33.6% to 96.2K hostnames. In terms of taking sites from direct competitors, ThePlanet (gaining 6.7K hostnames from near competitors) and EV1Servers.net (gaining 5.1K) appeared the most successful.

The dataset also allows examination of movement of sites by country. For example, the dataset shows 1&1 Internet gaining 1400 hostnames in the US in the days following the announcement of their US launch. With the entrance of European hosters into the American market this will provide detailed information on the success of these operations in attracting US customers.