Verisign released their latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief covering the 4th quarter of 2014 Thursday and again they were able to report solid year over year growth in new domain registrations. Verisign, who administers both the .com and .net TLDs, said the number of domains registered worldwide across all extensions rose to 288 million at the end of 4Q-2014, 16.9 million more than one year earlier  representing a a 6.2% jump in total registrations year over year.

Combined .com and .net registrations grew at a slower percentage rate than the market as a whole, moving up 2.7%, while ccTLDs outperformed the market with an 8.7% increase years over year to a total of 134 million country code registrations at the end of 2014. 

There is much more information in the report, including total registration rankings of the top ten  TLDs (as wel as the top 10 ccTLDs). There is also some early data on new gTLDs but none of those had yet completed their first year of operation in the quarter this brief covers. You can get the entire Verisign Domain NameIndustry Brief for 4Q-2014 (in .pdf format) at this link. It is also available in infographic form (also a .pdf file) here.