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Here's the The Lowdown
from DN Journal,
updated daily
to
fill you in on the latest buzz going around the domain name industry.
The Lowdown is
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Number
of Domain Names Registered Worldwide is Closing
in on 300 Million + My Wife's Birthday Gets Off
to a Sari Start
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Verisign,
who operates the .com and .net
domain registries, released their
latest Domain Name Industry Brief
covering the 2nd quarter of 2015
Wednesday. The brief is available in
two forms - a text rich .pdf
file and an infographic
(also in .pdf format) so you can
pick the flavor you prefer.
The
key finding from the new brief is
that the number of domain names
registered worldwide across all TLDs
had climbed to 296 million at
the end of 2Q-2015. That is 16.4
million more names that at the
same point a year ago, representing
a healthy 5.9% jump year over
year.
Verisign
reported registering a combined
total of 8.7 million new .com
and .net domains in 2Q-2015, a
little more more than the 8.5
million register in the same
quarter a year ago. At the
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end
of the quarter they had 118.5.
million names in .com - by far
the world's most popular extension -
as well at 15 million in
.net. Verisign also
said total ccTLD registrations were approximately 138 million
at the end of 2Q-2015. That is an increase of
approximately 9.1 million domain
names in one year, a 7.1% rise, year over year.
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One
other note today - this on
the personal front. I want
to publicly wish my wife
Diana a very happy
birthday. This is one of
those big ones that ends in
a zero, marking the start of
a new decade. Though the
years continue to roll by
(we've been married for 31
of them) she never
seems to age!
Maybe
that is simply due to good
luck in the genetics
department but I think it
has more to do with her attending
so many domain conferences
with me. Just about
everybody in that creative
crowd, regardless of their
chronological age, is young
at heart and generous in
spirit - and I'm
convinced those qualities
are contagious and even
manifest themselves
physically.
By
the way, in case you are
wondering - no Diana is not
from India but while
we were there last month for
the DomainX
conference she often
remarked on how much she
loved the beautiful saris |
It's
Diana Jackson's birthday! |
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many
of the women wear there. As
luck would have it, in the
course of the conference one
of the many personable
entrepreneurs we met
was Ashvin Patel
who, along with his wife Nisha,
have their own ecommerce
fashion site at DivaFashionSurat.com
- one that specializes in
saris!
Diana
Jackson with Ashvin
Patel (at right) from DivaFashionSurat.com
and Pradeep Kumar
(left) at the 2015
DomainX conference in Bangalore,
India last month.
When
Diana told Ashvin how much
he loved the colorful
Indian garments he told
her he was going to send her
a sari (also spelled saree)
and true to his word it
arrived from India in plenty
of time for her birthday. I
think you will agree it a great
look on her and - thanks
to Ashvin & Nisha - when
she wears it (at least in
Florida) she won't have to
worry about anyone showing
up in the same dress! :-) |
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(Posted
September 17, 2015)
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