12 Million New Domain Name Registrations in Q1, Verisign Says
About 12 million domain names were added to the internet during Q1, up 3.8 percent from Q4 2015, domain registry Verisign said Tuesday in a report. The additional 12 million domains in Q1 brought the total number of registered domains…
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to 326.4 million, including 126.6 million domains using the .com top-level domain and 15.9 million using .net, Verisign said. The domain registry said it processed 10 million new domain registrations on the .com and .net TLDs in Q1, up from 8.7 million domain registrations during the same period in 2015. Meanwhile, ICANN said in a report Tuesday that domain registrations using generic TLDs grew by 7.3 percent year-over-year between 2014 and 2015.