Verisign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), just issued its Domain Name Industry Brief Report for the third quarter of 2011.
As of September 30, 2011 there are nearly 220 million domain names registered worldwide across all extensions and out of which 112 Million are .com and .net domain names.
The increase of 4.9 million domain names equates to a growth rate of 2.3% over the second quarter of 2011, and an 8.2% increase over the same quarter in 2010.
It also marks the third straight quarter with greater than 2 percent growth
The Internet saw the addition of 4.5 million domain names in the first quarter (a 2.2 percent increase) and 5.2 million domain names in the second quarter (a 2.5 percent increase).
The .com and .net Top Level Domains (TLDs) experienced aggregate growth in the third quarter, reaching a combined total of 112 million names.
New .com and .net registrations totaled 7.9 million during the quarter a 5.9% increase year-over-year in new registrations.
The .com/.net renewal rate for the third quarter of 2011 was 73.3%, up from 73.1% for the second quarter.
The top TLD’s after .com in order were:
.de (Germany),
.net
.uk (united Kingdom)
.org
.info
.tk (Tokelau)
.nl (Netherlands)
.ru (russianfederation)
.eu (European Union)
.cn (China)
.br (Brazil)
.ar (Argentina)
.it (italy)
.IDN – Possibly the single most exciting new gTLD use
category, in terms of its power to transform the way people
use the internet, comes in the form of internationalized
gTLDs offered in non-Latin scripts. for hundreds of
millions of users around the world, the new gTLD round
represents an emerging opportunity to address and access
the entire global internet, entirely in their own languages.
many have called iDn gTLDs the “killer app” of the new
gTLD round, and companies and organizations from around
the world are gearing up to serve the emergent market.
Likely registrants: Users of non-Latin based languages and
the organizations and businesses that serve them.
http://www.verisigninc.com/assets/domain-name-brief-december2011.pdf
Hello Michael
All the Good .COM Domains are taken! Oh really ? There are inumerable .Com domains that are exceptional that have not been registered yet! My daughter just opened a site and I said Wow thats a great .Com domain business Address, and she said I just registered it!
Gratefully, jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
From their quiz: 475 Million (From Data Warehouse) which means about 375 million names were registered at some point but are now available!
Test your domain IQ
1. English is the most popular language seen on .COM domains. What is the second most popular language?
German
French
Chinese
Japanese
Latin
2. Which site is linked to by the most other domains?
MySpace.com
Twitter.com
VerisignInc.com
Facebook.com
nordu.net
3. There are 4,984,474 recursive name servers globally. How many of them are physically located in Asia?
Less than 250,000
About 800,000
Between 1 and 2 million
More than 2 million
4. Of the ~86 million .COM domains, how many are multi-lingual (content in more than one language recognized on the domain)?
Less than 500,000
Between 500,000 and 1 million
Between 1 million and 3 million
Between 3 million and 5 million
Between 5 million and 10 million
5. Of the ~86 million .COM domains, how many have web servers that are located in more than 1 country (hosting the web site for the same domain)?
Less than 100,000
Between 100,000 and 1 million
Between 1 million and 5 million
More than 5 million
6. What percent of registered .COM domains were never visited during the month of January, 2010?
Less than 1%
Between 1% and 5%
Between 5% and 10%
Between 10% and 15%
Between 15% and 25%
7. There are 10,980,281 domains used for online businesses. About 640,000 of them link to what domain in common?
AmericanExpress.com
Google.com
PayPal.com
Twitter.com
GetYour.net
8. In the DNS protocol, a query for a domain that is not in the zone returns an NXD response. On average, for how many unique domain names per day do Verisign’s .COM servers return an NXD response?
Less than 100,000 unique domains
Between 100,000 and 500,000 unique domains
Between 500,000 and 1,000,000 unique domains
More than 1,000,000 unique domains
9. Since 1985, Verisign’s registry for .COM and .NET has processed over 1.5 billion new domain name registrations. How many of those registrations are unique names?
About 86 million
Almost 100 million
Between 100 and 500 million
Between 500 million and 1 billion
Over 1 billion
1. Answer: German
2. Answer: Facebook: 1,403,057 domains link to it (Twitter=1,191,004; Myspace=601,493; VerisignInc.com=21,437)
3. Answer: 842,887 (1,932,826 in Europe, 91,576 in Africa, 0 in Antarctica)
4. Answer: 2,638,574
5. Answer: 42,836
6. Answer: About 7.5%: 6,315,459
7. Answer: Twitter.com
8. Answer: Over 68 million unique domain names per day receive DNS queries but are not in the zone (almost 2B of the 50B total daily queries)
9. Answer: 475 Million (From Data Warehouse) which means about 375 million names were registered at some point but are now available! At the peak of domain registration, we reached 5 million new registrations on some days.
so, the .com’s kingdom will end … in 2100 … 🙂
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Just goes to show that .com is king and that all others tld are practically worthless.