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The Number of .Com Domains Top 124 Million For The First Time

January 5, 2016 by Michael Berkens

According to Verisign the number of the .Com domain names has crossed the 124 million mark for the first time today.

 

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As of Dec. 31, 2014, the base of registered names in .com equaled 115.6 million names.

We are running a poll on the right hand side of our site on how many .com domain names you think will be registered as of January 1, 2017 please feel free to vote and for bragging rights you can put your exact picks in the comments of this post.

Filed Under: .com, Domain Names, Domains, VeriSign Tagged With: domain names, domain registrations, Domains, verisign. VRSN. .com. .com's domain name

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. Mike Sallese says

    January 5, 2016 at 1:53 pm

    Wow- and Citi just downgraded it today to SELL! Something seems a little off if they are doing a bang-up business on registrations!

  2. SoFreeDomains says

    January 6, 2016 at 1:28 am

    This is an indication that this year will be very interesting in the domain industry.

  3. David Mollet says

    May 14, 2017 at 11:17 pm

    Wow, thats a lesser number than I would have expected


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