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Total Number of Domains Registered Soars 10% in Past Year + Mountain Rises at NameMedia 

 Domain registrations continue to rocket. The latest quarterly Verisign Domain Name Industry Brief covering the fourth quarter of 2011 reports that the number of domains registered worldwide across all TLDs totaled more than 225 million at the end of 2011. More than 20.4 million domains were added since the end of 2010, an impressive 10% year over year jump. 

So much for those who say domains aren't as important as they used to be! Social media is all well and good but apparently plenty of people realize that you are much better off owning your own identity and presence on the web than handing those invaluable assets over to a third party like Facebook or Google. Those are certainly great marketing tools, but I wouldn't advise turning the keys to the ranch over to them or anyone else. 

Nearly 6 million domains were added in the final quarter of 2011 alone. The vast majority of people who register domains also keep them. Verisign, who administers the .com and .net extensions, said 73.5% of .com/.net domains were up for renewal were renewed in 4Q-2011. 

Bob Mountain
Senior VP of Business Development
NameMedia

Elsewhere, domain industry giant NameMedia announced the the promotion of Bob Mountain to Senior Vice President of Business Development Thursday (March 8). This will come as no surprise to anyone who knows Bob, one of the most highly regarded people in the domain industry.

Mountain, who joined NameMedia in 2009, has been the key architect of NameMedia's Afternic Domain Listing Service (DLS) - a domain name version of the real estate world's Multiple Listing Service. The Afternic DLS aggregates millions of domain names being offered for sale and syndicates those listings to dozens of reseller sites, including many popular registrars.

NameMedia CEO Kelly Conlin noted, “Bob has worked tirelessly to knit together the most powerful reseller network for premium aftermarket domains. This promotion is a recognition of the contributions Bob has made not only to our company, but to the entire domain industry.”

Mountain  said, "As much as we have accomplished, I believe that some of the programs 

and initiatives we have on our roadmap will make the future even more exciting.  look forward to continuing to grow the industry through collaboration and partnership the world over.”

(Posted March 9, 2012)


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