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Verisign,
the administrator of the .com
and .net registries has
issued their latest quarterly Domain
Name Industry Brief
covering the 3rd quarter of 2014.
Always a treasure trove of
interesting information, the latest
brief reveals that 3Q-2014 closed
with a base of 284 million domain
name registrations across all
top-level domains (TLDs). That is over
18 million more than were
registered at this time year ago,
reflecting healthy year over year
growth of nearly 7%. The
number of registered domains grew by
4 million over the previous
quarter.
The
ccTLDs grew even faster than
the overall market, jumping 10.7%
year over year ending 3Q-2014 with 132.1
million registrations. Despite
the onslaught of new gTLDs in
2014, the world's most popular
extension, .com,
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continued
to grow, albeit at a slower
percentage rate than the market as a
whole. The .coms rose from 112
million domains at the start of
2014 to 114.9 million at the
end of 3Q-2014, a 2.6%
increase over those 9 months.
In
addition to the full Domain Name
Industry Brief (.pdf
file), Verisign also
summed up its 3Q-2014 highlights in
this infographic.
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