.Com Breaks Through The 113.5 Million Domain Mark; Adding 500K Domains In 3 Months

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According to zone file for the .com registry the number of .Com domain name registrations has passed 113.5 Million domains for the first time.

Of course everyday tens of thousands of .com domains are deleted for non-renewal and tens of thousands are more are registered.

Most days result in a net positive gain for the .com registry while its also not unusually to see a net loss for certain days were more domains are deleted than registered.

It was on March 22nd 2014 that we reported that the .Com zone file passed the 113 Million domain name mark for the first time.

So basically in 3 months .Com domain registration increased by 500,000 domains.

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.

Comments

  1. John McCormac says

    The problem is that the net monthly increase has fallen for the last few months (April +141,612, May +144,769) compared to the same time last year (April 2013 +436,601, May 2013 +418,427). The .com figures for 2012 are even better (April 2012 +592,320, May +629.897). It might be a Summer slump but the rise of ccTLDs is having an impact. It is unlikely to be the launch of new gTLDs causing this.

  2. Michael Berkens says

    John

    For the growth is slowing

    ccTLD have been growing as a faster pace than gTLD for a few years.

    There are also 1.3 million + New G’s which have to have some impact on .com

    .net for the record seems to be at a complete standstill

  3. John McCormac says

    The ccTLDs offer a localisation option, Michael,
    This is the classic shift from global to local that happens when country level markets mature. There’s also a wider trend in consolidation that has been going on for the last few years as businesses concentrate on their core brand and drop undeveloped domains in other gTLDS. I’m not so sure about new gTLDs having a major effect on .COM. It might be interesting to see if the land rush for .CO had an effect. (It might be harder to detect). It could be, and this is just theory, that there’s a speculative registrations group of registrants that moves from new TLD to new TLD and it does not have a major impact on .COM because the barriers to entry on .COM are too high so they get more bang for the buck in the new TLDs. The core TLD figures have been very wobbly for the first half of 2014. The .NET TLD is an oddity – almost a legacy TLD but not quite there yet. It went negative net growth in March and April 2014 but bounced back in in May.

  4. Brad Mugford says

    The new extensions might have a collective 1.3M regs, but pretty much everyone knows that number is total BS. Included in that number are a few hundred thousand freebies. These include both opt-in (.Berlin) and forced opt-out auto registrations (.XYZ). There are also tens of thousands of registry reserved domains. The 1.3M number is obviously highly inflated.

    Also this is comparing the net gain of .COM (new registrations – drops) to the gross of new gTLD (new registrations only), as new extensions have not gone through a drop cycle yet. When that drop cycle comes you can bet there is going to be a very high drop rate.

    Brad

  5. Jeff Schneider says

    There is this fantasy that Consumers diconnect the most recognized .COMBrand as actually not part of a companies Branding Strategy. If you believe this give your .COMBrand to your competitors. You will commit online annhilation of epic proportion. KISS

    Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)