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VeriSign 4th Quarter State Of The Industry Domain Report: 192 Million Domains; Up 11 Million

February 22, 2010 by Michael Berkens

According to the new VeriSign released its State Of The Industry Report for the 4th Quarter today, (pdf) the Internet added 11 million domain name registrations in the 4th quarter of 2009 and wound up the year at more than 192 Million domains.

New registrations in the 4th quarter of 2009 came in at around 3.7 million domain name registrations per month,  to total approximately 11 million new domain name registrations.

This reflects an 8% increase in new registrations from the 3rd quarter of 2009.

The overall base of .com and .net domain names grew to 96.7 million domain names at the end of 2009, a 2% increase over the third quarter and a 7% increase over the same quarter in 2008.

New .com and .net registrations were added at an average of approximately 2.4 million per month in the last quarter of 2009 for a total of 7.3 million new registrations in the quarter.

The renewal rate for the 4th quarter of 2009 was 71% which represents a slight change from the 3rd quarter of 2009 which was approximately 70.5 percent.

Filed Under: Domain Industry, Domains, VeriSign

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

  1. Aggro says

    February 22, 2010 at 12:03 pm

    And of the 96 million domains, over 95% are worthless, equivalent to toxic swampland (using domainners’ favorite real estate analogy) or will only ever be traded to & from domainers back & forth.

    Oh it must be good to be the registry.

    That and the expired drop shops.
    The only guaranteed winners (arms dealers) in this game, regardless of the whim’s of G and and not at their biatches.

    Risk free money day in day out, huge cashflow from a willing audience (domainers)

    Baa…baaa…

  2. wannadevelop.com says

    February 22, 2010 at 1:06 pm

    I’d say more like 99% are worthless… 🙁

  3. Bruce says

    February 22, 2010 at 2:18 pm

    I like that there is 99% junk out there. Just makes my premium .com names worth more…

  4. MHB says

    February 22, 2010 at 5:57 pm

    Aggro

    So your saying out of 96 Million registrations 95% or lets say 90 Million + are worthless.

    I think you need to rethink worth

    From a pure domainer perspective there are certainly 10’s of millions that we wouldn’t pay money to own but that doesn’t mean they are worthless.

    If you built up your internet presence around newarkautorepair123.com it’s worthless to domainers but worth a lot to the owner of the domain.

    It is good to be the registry and now with the new gTLD’s you can start your own

  5. Rashid Mahmood says

    February 26, 2010 at 11:31 pm

    Nice bit of luck, to register a domain over 10 years ago that becomes essential to a highly anticipated product of a huge company. If we could all be so lucky!


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