It’s amusing to see that sites like wwwwwwwwwwwwwww.com are registered, as I did in a spout of boredom yesterday. But then it dawned on me.
How many thousands of dollars are being spent every year renewing these junk domain names?
About one third of all domains made by repeating a single letter are registered (I guess after 20 characters things get a little samey?)—A breakdown of registered sites is shown in the chart above.
Data scraped from public whois databases using a Ruby script.
— Thomas Riggs