Total Domains Reach 280 Million Worldwide

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Total Domains Reach 280 Million Worldwide

By CircleID Reporter
December 03, 2014, 4:03 am PST Views: 8,964 Add Comment

The second quarter of 2014 closed with a base of 280 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs)—an increase of four million domain names or 1.4 percent over the first quarter of 2014—according Verisign in its latest issue of Domain Name Industry Brief. Registrations have grown by 18.6 million, or 7.2 percent, year over year.

Additionally, the base of country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) is reported at 129.3 million domain names, a 1.7 percent increase quarter over quarter, and an 11.5 percent increase year over year.

At the end of the second quarter of 2014, 322 new gTLDs were delegated into the root; with 124 new gTLDs delegated during the second quarter of 2014. Total new gTLD registrations equaled 1.3 million, or 0.50 percent of global TLD registrations.

Chart below shows initial 60-day registration volume rank for those new gTLDs reaching 60 days of General Availability during the quarter. In the second quarter of 2014, 93 new gTLDs reached 60 days of General Availability and of those, the 10 largest new gTLDs, as measured by zone size on Day 60 of their respective General Availability period, were .guru, .berlin, .?? (xn–3ds443g, Chinese for “online”), .link, .photography, .email, .tips, .today, .company and .solutions.

The new gTLDs that reached 60 days of General Availability during the second quarter was determined using nTLDStats.

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