Domain Name Growth at Verisign

Pete Prestipino
by Pete Prestipino 02 Dec, 2010
Domain Name Growth at Verisign

Verisign announced that the global base of internet domain names grew by nearly 3.8 million in the third quarter of 2010.

Registrations increased 7% year over year to $13.3 million. VeriSign stated that the combined base of .com and .net domain names crossed 103 million. New .com and .net registrations totaled 7.5 million during the third quarter, an increase of 7% from a year ago. The .com/.net renewal rate for the third quarter was 72.8%, down from 73.2% for the second quarter.

The base of Country Code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs) was 79.2 million domain names, up 2.4% year from a year ago.

VeriSign's average daily Domain Name System (DNS) query load during third quarter 2010 was 66 billion per day, with a peak of 78 billion.

Pete Prestipino
Pete Prestipino
Digital marketing executive with proven experience in all aspects of search engine optimization (SEO), performance-based advertising, consumer-generated/social media, email marketing, lead generation, Web design, usability, and analytics. - 20-year Internet marketing veteran, currently serving as the Digital Marketing Campaign Manager at Antenna Group (formerly Chicago Digital). - Former Editor-In-Chief of Website Magazine, and a regular speaker on Web technology digital marketing strategy - Author of several books on digital marketing Including Web 360: The Fundamentals of Web Success; Affiliate 360: The Fundamentals of Performance Marketing; Domains 360: The Fundamentals of Buying & Selling Domain Names, and SEO 360: The Fundamentals of Search Engine Optimization.