Domain Name Registrations Up 22% from Last Year, Totaling 168 Million

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Domain Name Registrations Up 22% from Last Year, Totaling 168 Million

By CircleID Reporter
September 04, 2008, 4:44 pm PDT Views: 5,059 Add Comment

VeriSign today released the Domain Report for the second quarter of 2008, highlighting a continued growth of the Internet globally. At the midpoint of 2008, according to the report, there were 168 million domain name registrations across all Top Level Domain Names (TLDs)—repersenting a four percent increase over the first quarter of 2008 and 22 percent growth over the same quarter last year.

The base of Country Code Top Level Domain Names (ccTLDs) totaled 65 million domain names, a four percent increase quarter over quarter and a 27 percent increase year over year. VeriSign also reports on processing peak loads of more than 48 billion Domain Name System (DNS) queries per day in the second quarter of 2008.

The contents of the Q2 VeriSign Domain Name Industry Brief is available here for download. To read the press release click here.

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