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Verisign DNIB Q3 2015 Registrations have grown by 14.8 million, or 5.2 percent, year over year

December 17, 2015 by Raymond Hackney

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

Filed Under: Domains, VeriSign

About Raymond Hackney

Raymond is a writer, domain trader and consultant based in Pennsylvania. Raymond is the founder of 3Character.com and TLDInvestors.com.

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