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Verisign Releases Latest Quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief - Number of Registered Domains Soars 12% Over Last Year

Verisign released their latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief, covering the 3rd quarter of 2012, today. The quarter ended with more than 246 million domain names registered across all Top Level Domains (TLDs). The 5.7 million domains added to the registration base in  the  most recent quarter represents a 2.4% increase in total registrations since the end of the previous quarter - the seventh consecutive quarter with growth of more that 2%. 

The jump year over year (since the end of 3Q-2011) was even more impressive, soaring 12% with the number of registered domains increasing by 26.4 million names over the previous 12 months.

Versign also broke out figures for the .com and .net TLDs that they administer. Those two extensions  reached a combined 119.9 million names at the end of 3Q-2012, which marks a 7.1% increase year over year.  As of Sept. 30, 2012, there were 105 million .com domains registered and 14.9 million .net ames

New .com and .net registrations totaled 7.8 million during the third quarter of 2012. This is a 1.1% year-over-year decrease in new registrations. The .com/.net renewal rate for 3Q-2012 was also down slightly from the previous quarter, slipping to 72.5% after logging a 72.9% rate in 2Q-2012.   

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