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Verisign: There Are 314 Million Domain Names As of December 31, 2015

April 14, 2016 by Michael Berkens

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), announced that approximately 15 million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2015, bringing the total number of registered domain names to approximately 314 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs).

The increase of approximately 15 million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 5% over the third quarter of 2015.

Worldwide registrations have grown by 25.9 million, or 9%, year over year.

The .com and .net TLDs experienced aggregate growth in the fourth quarter of 2015, reaching a combined total of approximately 139.8 million .com and .net domain names representing a 6.3% increase year over year.

As of Dec. 31, 2015, the domain name base of .com equaled 124 million names, while .net equaled 15.8 million names.

You can read the full report here

Filed Under: .com, .Net, ccTLD, ccTLD's, Domain Industry, Domain Names, Domains, VeriSign

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. Aron - XF.com says

    April 14, 2016 at 4:22 pm

    They added a part about the .com aftermarket in there, referencing DN Journal. It was awesome to see that, and I don’t know if they’ve done that in the past. Very cool!

  2. M. Menius says

    April 14, 2016 at 5:55 pm

    314 million. That’s about one domain per U.S. citizen.

  3. BullS says

    April 14, 2016 at 11:34 pm

    And the best domain and website is “BullS”

  4. Alan Aurmont says

    April 15, 2016 at 1:33 pm

    And 313 million of them are parked.

  5. mediclorianer says

    April 15, 2016 at 10:08 pm

    americans dont like .us
    they deny their own ccTLD
    that,s America

    .com is not a location
    .com is not America
    .com is chinas online market
    .com is communism ?


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