Verisign has released their latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief covering the second quarter of 2008. The new report shows demand for domain names continuing to surge. 

At the conclusion of 2Q 2008 168 million domains were registered worldwide, a 22% jump over the same quarter last year. Despite a deteriorating general economy, this also represents a 4% rise over the number of registered domains at the end of 1Q 2008. 

One of the hottest growth areas was .com and .net registrations in Latin America. In 2Q 2008, those enjoyed a cumulative surge of 31%, outpacing worldwide growth for .com and .net by 11 percentage points.

Country code domains also continued to show solid growth. 65 million ccTLDs were registered at the year's midpoint, a 27% jump from the last year and a 4% rise since the last quarter. 

The ten largest TLDs in total registrations remained in the same order they were in the previous quarter: 1) .com  2) .de  3) .cn   4) .net  5) .uk  6) .org  7) .info  8) .nl  9) .eu and 10) .biz. 
(Posted Sept. 4, 2008)