3.2 Million .Com Added In Last 3 Weeks More Than Increase In All Domains in 2Q

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As of today Verisign is reporting that the .Com zone file has topped 123 million domain names; 123,203,096

On October 27, 2015, three weeks ago, the .com zone file topped 120 Million for the first time and had 120,034,068 domain names.

So we are looking at an increase of almost 3.2 million new .com domain names since October 27th, three weeks ago.

Consider that Verisign reported in this last Domain Industry Brief for second quarter of 2015 there were  “296 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 2.2 million domain names, or 0.8 percent over the first quarter of 2015.”

So to be clear the there has been more domain names registered in .Com in just the last three weeks than were registered in every domain extension worldwide, including .com, including  all Top Level Domains as well as all ccTLD’s and new gTLD’s. in the 2nd quarter of 2015.

According to that same report for the 2nd Quarter; As of June 30, 2015, “the base of registered names in .com equaled 118.5 million names”.

So the number of  .Com domain names increased since June 30, 2015, until three weeks ago on October 27th, by 1.5 million domains.

In the last three weeks 3.2 Million new .Com Domains were registered, more than twice the number that were registered in the 16 weeks leading up to October 27th.

Amazing.

Shares of Verisign (VRSN) by the way hit a 52 week high yesterday of $84.43 before closing at $83.92

 

 

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. Domain Observer says

    I am wondering how ICANN feels now. Didn’t they say something like lack of availability in .com when they introduced new GTLDS?

  4. Ron says

    Thank you China, if you don’t believe check the stats on the 5L chips as they call them.

    They have all but almost depleted 3.2M of them so called premium letters, once thought not possible.

    • Acro says

      So who registered 3.2 million LLLL .com domains from {A .. Z} excluding {A,E,I,O,U,V} ?
      Any WHOIS data?
      I’d like to see the tens of thousands of “Chinese domain investors”, as opposed to a couple of ultra-rich speculators with money to burn.

  5. scrivener3 says

    Real registrations or speculators discovering nnnn.com that will sell in China. IMHO if people register domains to use their is a real demand for the product. IF there is a major blip because China is 10 years behind the west on internet, buys alot of domain produc, then the bubble will burst. I don;t know which.

  7. mark says

    domains have become the new bitcoin.
    but with many advantages over bitcoin, and
    much more a tangible real asset that itself can be monetized
    china just figured it out first

  8. Edward Zeiden says

    I’m interested in seeing the ratio of investors to developers purchasing these domains. Can anyone explain the sudden surge and attribute it to a specific region? We’re seeing buyouts reported almost daily on NamePros.

  9. bloonstowerdefense5game says

    So I just did a simple site search on Google for .nyc, and it shows that Spencer here is way way off, and DK is way way right. Nothing but page after page after page of “huge adoption” of .nyc in the numerous pages I sampled; all developed and published end user sites apparently, and I did not see even a single parking page in the search results among the numerous pages I looked at.