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12:06 16th March 2010
Website requests are expected to grow phenomenally over the next ten years, according to Mark McLaughlin, chief executive officer of Verisign, the group that is responsible for looking after the dotcom domain.
Currently, Verisign logs 53 billion requests for websites, not just dotcoms, on a daily basis, about the same number handled for all of 1995.
"We expect that to grow in 2020 to somewhere between three and four quadrillion," McLaughlin told BBC News.
His comments emerged as the internet celebrated the 25th anniversary of the day the first dotcom was registered on March 15.
In March 1985, Symbolics computers of Cambridge wrote history with an internet address ending in dotcom - a "groundbreaking event," according to McLaughlin.
In other news, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) has confirmed that it will reconsider a plan to create an internet domain specifically for adult sites.
In 2005, Icann had given the green light to the .xxx scheme but overturned its decision two years later amidst a firestorm of protests from conservative groups which opposed the plan on moral grounds.
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