Featured in the Wall Street Journal · ABC News · BBC News · Forbes ·  Newsweek · USA Today · New York Times · CNN/Money · Investor's Business Daily

Home

December 04, 2014

Domain Sales

About Us

YTD Sales Charts

E-Mail Us

The Lowdown

News Headlines

Articles

Resources

Archive

Letters to Editor

The Lowdown Subscribe to our RSS Feed
Here's the The Lowdown from DN Journal,
updated daily
to fill you in on the latest buzz going around the domain name industry. 

The Lowdown is compiled by DN Journal Editor & Publisher Ron Jackson.

Worldwide Domain Registrations Still Booming -  More than 18 Million Added Over Past Year According to Verisign 

Verisign released their latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief (.pdf file), covering 2Q-2014 this week and it contained a lot of good news. The operator of the .com and .net registries reported that 18.6 million domain names across all extensions have been added since the end of the same quarter a year ago - a healthy 7.2% year over year jump. 

That brought  the total number of domain name  registrations worldwide to over 280 million. 4 million domains were added in the 2nd quarter alone, a 1.4% boost from the previous quarter. 

Percentage-wise, the country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) performed even better than the market as a whole, growing 11.5% year over year to a total of  129.3 million domain names.

Verisign's .com and .net TLDs also continued to grow. The two extension, combined, totaled 128.9 million at the end of 2Q-2014, 3.7% higher than one year ago.  .Com, the world's most popular extension, accounted for the bulk of those with 113.7 million registrations. .Net stood at 15.2 million domains making it the 4th most popular in the world. Tokelau's .tk (which is given away free) was #2  and Germany's popular cctLD, .de, #4. China's .cn rounded out the first five (up two notches from the previous quarter, pushing Great Britain's .co.uk down a notch to 6th and .org to 7th). 

(Posted Dec. 4, 2014) 


For all current Lowdown posts - Go Here


We need your help to keep giving domainers The Lowdown, so please email [email protected] with any interesting information you might have. If possible, include the source of your information so we can check it out (for example a URL if you read it in a forum or on a site elsewhere). 

 Home  Domain Sales  YTD Sales Charts   Latest News  The Lowdown  Articles  
Legal Matters
  Dear Domey  Letters to Editor  Resources  Classified Ads  Archive  About Us

Hit Counter

 

Copyright 2014 DNJournal.com - an Internet Edge, Inc. company. 
No material may be copied from this site without expressed written consent.