The Internet Now Has 339.8 Million Domain Names, Registration Rate Grows By 2.4%

Global domain names and Cyberspace security major Verisign on Tuesday announced that the second quarter of 2018 saw nearly six million domain name registrations, taking their total number to around 339.8 million across all top-level domains (TLDs).

The increment of about 6 million domain name registrations globally equates to a growth rate of one.eight percent over the start quarter of 2018, the company said in a statement.
The ".com" and ".net" TLDs had a combined total of approximately 149.vii million domain name registrations in the domain proper name base — registered but not configured — at the end of Q2, 2018.

The Internet Now Has 339.8 Million Domain Names, Registration Rate Grows By 2.4% This represents an increase of effectually 1.4 million domain proper name registrations, or 0.9 per cent, compared to Q1 2017. The ".com" and ".net" TLDs had a combined increase of approximately 5.3 million domain name registrations, or 3.seven per cent, year over year (YoY).

New ".com" and ".net" domain name registrations totaled approximately nine.6 million at the cease of Q2 2018, compared to nine.2 million domain name registrations for Q2 2017. As of June thirty, 2018, the ".com" domain proper name base totaled effectually 135.half dozen million domain name registrations, while the ".net" domain name base totaled virtually 14.one million domain name registrations, said the company.

For comparison sake, the internet had approximately 333.8 1000000 domain names at the end of Q1 2018 every bit per Verisign's previous report. In Q1 2018, the ".com" and ".net" TLDs had a combined full of approximately 148.3 million domain proper name registrations in the domain name database. As of March 2018, the ".com" domain name base totaled approximately 133.9 million registrations, while the ".net" domain proper name base had around fourteen.4 million registrations.

As for the net growth figures in Q2 2018, domain name registrations recorded a growth of 2.4 per cent on a YoY basis, an increment of seven.9 million more new domain registrations in 2018'south 2nd quarter compared to the previous quarter.

With inputs from IANS