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title: Domain Name Growth at Verisign
description: Verisign announced that the global base of internet domain names grew by nearly 3.8 million in the t...
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# [Domain Name Growth at Verisign](https://www.websitemagazine.com/domains/domain-name-growth-at-verisign)

 Written by [Pete Prestipino](https://www.websitemagazine.com/domains/author/pete-prestipino) | Dec 2, 2010 6:00:00 AM

**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.

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