How The Domain Names Stack Up
Posted on March 7th, 2008 by dhirender
The Domain Name Industry closed 2007 with more than 153 million domain name registrations worldwide across all of the Top Level Domain Names (TLDs), an increase of nearly 33 million domain name registrations since the close of 2006, according to this report by Verisign.
Some highlights:
- In the last quarter of 2007, the base of domain name registrations grew 27 percent over the fourth quarter of 2006 and five percent over the third quarter of 2007. Just the fourth quarter itself accounted for approximately 12.2 million new domain names. Of this, .com and .net domain name registrations accounted for 7.5 million new registrations.
- The total base of Country Code Top Level Domain Names (ccTLDs) was 58 million, a 33 percent increase year over year and a six percent increase quarter over quarter.
- Across all of the gTLDs and ccTLDs, .com has the highest base followed by .de (Germany), .net and .cn (China). The fifth spot is shared by .uk (United Kingdom) and .org. with approximately the same size base of domain name registrations.
- VeriSign processed peak loads of more than 33 billion Domain Name System (DNS) queries per day in the fourth quarter of 2007.
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