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Verisign: .Com Domains Back Over 128 Million

February 28, 2017 by Michael Berkens

Verisign the who operates the .com domain name registry is reporting today that the number of domain names in the .Com Domain Name Base is once again over 128 million domain names.

Back in September 2016 the number of .Com’s in the Domain Name Base passed 128 million for the first time.

However do to the large amount of speculative domain registrations in the 4th Q of 2015 which dropped in the 2016 early 2017.

In December 2016, Verisign reported that the Domain Name Base dropped below 127 Million.

“For the record, Verisign defines the Domain Name Base β€œis the active zone plus the number of domain names that are registered but not configured for use in the respective Top-Level Domain zone file plus the number of domain names that are in a client or server hold status.”

Filed Under: 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. Mark Thorpe says

    February 28, 2017 at 5:06 pm

    On our way to 130 million! πŸ™‚

  2. Domo Sapiens says

    February 28, 2017 at 5:34 pm

    what is the significance of that number?
    seriously.
    Vanity?


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