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Verisign
(the administrator of the .com
and .net TLDs) has released
their latest quarterly Domain
Name Industry Brief
covering the 3rd quarter of
2020. The quarter closed with 370.7
million domain name
registrations across all top-level
domains (TLDs), an increase of approximately
10.8 million domains that
represents a 3% rise year
over year. About 600,000 of those
domains were registered in
3Q-2020, a less robust 0.2%
increase from the previous
quarter.
.Com
domain registration jumped by 5.7
million year over year to 150.3
million (a 4.4% rise
that easily bested the overall
market growth rate). .Net, which
has been steadily slipping in
recent years looks to have
stabilized. .Net closed 3Q-2020
with approximately 13.4 million
registrations, the same figure it
posted at this point a year ago.
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ccTLDs also remained static ending
3Q-2020 with 160.6 million registrations, down a hair (minus 0.7%)
after a year-over-year decrease of 1.2 million domains. However, the ccTLDs
regained 500,000 of those domains over the last quarter, a 0.3% increase
since the end of 2Q-2020.
The new gTLDs flipped that script,
falling 4.7% from the end of 2Q-2020 after losing 1.5 million domains.
However, the new gTLDs still ended up with a big year-over year
increase, having added 6.2 million domains to finish 3Q-2020 with 30.2
million registrations, a jump of more than 25% since the
same point a year ago.
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