Internet Grows to 314 Million Domain Names in the Fourth Quarter of 2015
April 14 2016 - 4:05PM
Business Wire
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), a global leader in domain names
and Internet security, today announced that approximately 15
million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth
quarter of 2015, bringing the total number of registered domain
names to approximately 314 million worldwide across all top-level
domains (TLDs) as of Dec. 31, 2015, according to the latest Domain
Name Industry Brief.
The increase of approximately 15 million domain names globally
equates to a growth rate of 5 percent over the third quarter of
2015. Worldwide registrations have grown by 25.9 million, or 9
percent, year over year.
The .com and .net TLDs experienced aggregate growth in the
fourth quarter of 2015, reaching a combined total of approximately
139.8 million .com and .net domain names in the domain name base.
This represents a 6.3 percent increase year over year. As of Dec.
31, 2015, the domain name base of .com equaled 124 million names,
while .net equaled 15.8 million names.
In the fourth quarter, Verisign processed 12.2 million new
domain name registrations for .com and .net, as compared to 8.2
million domain names for the same period in 2014.
During the fourth quarter of 2015, Verisign’s average daily
Domain Name System (DNS) query load was approximately 123 billion
queries per day across all TLDs operated by Verisign, with a peak
of nearly 194 billion. Quarter over quarter, the daily average
query load increased 2.8 percent and the peak decreased by 67.3
percent. Year over year, the daily average query load
increased by 11.9 percent, and the peak increased by 32.6
percent.
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 fourth quarter
2015 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 functions for the core
of the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS). Verisign’s Security
Services include intelligence-driven Distributed Denial of Service
Protection, iDefense Security Intelligence and Managed DNS. To
learn more about what it means to be Powered by Verisign, please
visit Verisign.com.
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