Internet Grows to 331.9 Million Domain Name Registrations in the Second Quarter of 2017
September 14 2017 - 4:17PM
Business Wire
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), a global leader in domain names
and internet security, today announced that approximately 1.3
million domain name registrations were added to the internet in the
second quarter of 2017, bringing the total number of domain name
registrations to approximately 331.9 million across all top-level
domains (TLDs) as of June 30, 2017.1
The increase of approximately 1.3 million domain name
registrations globally equates to a growth rate of 0.4 percent over
the first quarter of 2017.1 Domain name registrations have grown by
6.7 million, or 2.1 percent, year over year.1
The .com and .net TLDs had a combined total of approximately
144.3 million domain name registrations in the domain name base in
the second quarter of 2017. This represents a 0.8 percent increase
year over year. As of June 30, 2017, the .com domain name base
totaled 129.2 million domain name registrations, while the .net
domain name base totaled 15.1 million domain name
registrations.
New .com and .net domain name registrations totaled 9.2 million
during the second quarter of 2017. In the second quarter of 2016,
new .com and .net domain name registrations totaled 8.6
million.
Verisign publishes the Domain Name Industry Brief to provide
internet users throughout the world with statistical and analytical
research and data on the domain name industry. The second quarter
2017 Domain Name Industry Brief, as well as previous reports, can
be obtained at Verisign.com/DNIB.
About Verisign
Verisign, a global leader in domain names and internet security,
enables internet navigation for many of the world's most recognized
domain names and provides protection for websites and enterprises
around the world. Verisign ensures the security, stability and
resiliency of key internet infrastructure and services, including
the .com and .net domains and two of the internet's root servers,
as well as performs the root zone maintainer function for the core
of the internet's Domain Name System (DNS). Verisign’s Security
Services include Distributed Denial of Service Protection and
Managed DNS. To learn more about what it means to be Powered
by Verisign, please visit Verisign.com.
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1 .tk is a ccTLD that is provided for free to individuals and
businesses worldwide
(http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20131216006048/en/Freenom-Closes-3MSeries-
Funding#.UxeUGNJDv9s). The zone size for .tk was last estimated by
Zooknic in Q4 2014 and this zone size was subsequently used in the
Q4 2014 through Q2 2016 DNIBs. In Q3 2016, Zooknic reported a
significant decline in the .tk zone and restated the estimated zone
size of .tk for each quarter from Q4 2014 through Q3 2016 using a
proprietary methodology. As a result, for comparative purposes of
this DNIB to the Q2 2016 DNIB, Verisign has applied an updated
estimate of the total zone size across all TLDs for Q2 2016 of
325.2 million and an updated estimate of the total ccTLD zone size
for Q2 2016 of 140.5 million.
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VeriSign, Inc.Investor Relations:David Atchley,
703-948-4643datchley@verisign.comorMedia Relations:Erin Collins,
703-948-4214ecollins@verisign.com
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