177 Million Internet Domain Names. Slowdown?
The Internet added 24 million new domain names in 2008, according to the fourth quarter 2008 Domain Name Industry Brief published by VeriSign taking the total base across all of the Top Level Domains (TLDs) to 177 million domain name registrations.
This represents a 16% growth over the previous year and a two percent growth over the third quarter of 2008. In the fourth quarter of 2008, more than 10.1 million new domain names were registered across all TLDs. The overall base of .com and .net domain names grew to 90.4 million at the end of 2008, representing a 12% increase over the previous year and a one percent increase over the third quarter of 2008.
The base of Country Code Top Level Domain Names (ccTLDs) totaled 71.1 million domain names, a 22% increase year over year and a three percent increase quarter over quarter. In terms of total registrations, .com has the highest base followed by .cn (China), .de(Germany) and .net.
Incidentally, this reflects a slower growth in new registrations with a decline of 12% from the third quarter 2008 and 17% from the same quarter in the previous year. Over the entire year, there was an average of 11.9 million new domain names registered per quarter compared to an average of 12.2 million new domain names registered each quarter in 2007.
Related posts:
- How The Domain Names Stack Up
- Registry Fees For Internet Domain Names To Rise
- Rediff – Net Loss $0.42 Mln, Revenues $7.32 Mln
- When a domain comes before the name
- Earnings – Bharti Airtel Net Profit Up 25%
Filed under: Statistics
Go ahead, subscribe to the Wildblueskies RSS feed.