.Org Registrations Grew 11% In First Half Of Year, Making It The Fastest Growing TLD

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The Public Interest Registry, the company that runs the .Org registry released today their first bi-annual domain name report, “The Dashboard“. (pdf file)

“The Dashboard” revealed that registrations for .ORG domain names grew 11%, up to 7.69 million total registrations in the first half of 2009, compared to a year ago.

From January to June, .ORG’s experienced the highest percentage growth rate of any TLD at 5% (.com growth was at 3.2% and .mobi was the only TLD to show a decline in registrations).

The report also noted a renewal rate of 73.7% for .ORG registrations for the first half of the year.

Nice to see a detailed report from the registry and congrats to PIR for producing their first report and you should check it out


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Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.