Domain Registrations Reaching 202 Million World Wide, 3.8 Million Growth Since Last Quarter

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Domain Registrations Reaching 202 Million World Wide, 3.8 Million Growth Since Last Quarter

By CircleID Reporter
November 29, 2010, 9:59 pm PST Views: 5,739 Add Comment

The third quarter of 2010 closed with a base of more than 201.8 million domain name registrations across all Top Level Domains (TLDs), an increase of 3.8 million domain names, or 2 percent over the second quarter. According to VeriSign’s latest Domain Name Industry Brief released today, domain name registrations have grown by 13.3 million, or 7 percent over the past year. The base of Country Code Top Level Domains (such as .us, .ca, and .uk) was 79.2 million domain names, a 1.4 percent increase quarter over quarter, and 2.4 percent year-over-year.

The largest TLDs reported in terms of base size are in order, .com, .de (Germany), .net, .uk (United Kingdom), .org, .info, .cn (China), .nl (Netherlands), .eu (European Union) and .ru (Russian Federation).

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