Verisign (VRSN) released their 2015 Q3 Industry Brief

Some takeaways:

• The total number of registered domain names rose to 299 million worldwide across all top-level domains
• 3.1 million domain names were added to the Internet in Q3 2015:
  • This increase globally equates to a growth rate of 1.1% over Q2 2015
  • Worldwide registrations have grown by 14.8 million, or 5.2 percent, year over year.
• The .com and .net TLDs reached a combined total of approximately 135.2 million domain names in the domain name base in Q3’15
  • The base of registered names in .com equaled 120.1 million names, while .net equaled 15.1 million names
  • Verisign processed 9.2 million new domain name registrations for .com and .net, as compared to 8.7 million domain names for the same period in 2014.
• Verisign’s average Domain Name System query load was 120 billion across all TLDs operated by Verisign, with a peak of 593 billion

You can download the DNIB Infographic here