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Verisign: The Number of .Com Domain Registration Pass 129 Million For 1st Time

June 27, 2017 by Michael Berkens

According to Verisign (VRSN) which operates the .Com registry,  the number of .Com domain names in the Domain Name Base has passed 129 Million for the 1st time.

The number of .Com domain names in the Domain Name Base passed 128 Million for the 1st time in September 2016.

The number of .Com domain passed 127 Million in May of 2016; 126 Million domain names in March 2016.

So growth of .com registrations has slowed but continues to grow.

According to Verisign The Domain Name Base is “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.

The domain name base and the active zone change frequently and are updated on this page at least once per day. The update times may vary each day. Today’s domain name base is not necessarily indicative of results that may be expected for the current financial quarter or year.

The daily domain name base provided on this page may not be comparable to domain name counts we disclose elsewhere. The domain name base may also reflect compensated or uncompensated judicial or administrative actions to add to or remove from the active zone an immaterial number of domain names.”

 

 

 

Filed Under: .com, 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. Richard says

    June 27, 2017 at 3:36 am

    .com, 30 years old and still growing.
    nTLD’s, 3 years old and already in decline.

    Go figure.

    • M. Menius says

      June 27, 2017 at 6:05 am

      That’s incorrect. A substantial number of the nTLD’s are growing in registration numbers and use. There is significant variation among them in quality.

      • Richard says

        June 27, 2017 at 6:38 am

        Please define “substantial number”.

        I only count 27 out of 1200 nTLDs with more than 100k registrations.
        And of those only 5 showed a growing pattern during the last 30 days…

      • Hans says

        June 27, 2017 at 7:47 am

        the program as a whole is dying so a handful out of 1000 is not significant growth.

  2. Michael Berkens says

    June 27, 2017 at 7:00 am

    Also you need to heavily discount the worth of domain registrations that are almost continuously discounted to $1 or less

    • Alex says

      June 27, 2017 at 2:54 pm

      Do you mean .coms sold by GoDaddy for 99 cents?…

  3. Hans says

    June 27, 2017 at 7:45 am

    Only .com works!!! Everything else is a waste of time.

  4. Nick says

    June 27, 2017 at 9:22 am

    My Verisign stock has been doing great. If I put more of my money in the stock instead of some crappy domain buys I did, I would have even did better.

  5. @domains says

    June 27, 2017 at 9:51 am

    Not even 1 .com for each person in the US, never mind the rest of the world, still room to grow?

  6. Alex says

    June 27, 2017 at 2:33 pm

    Despite 129 million registered .coms I can hardly find even one good name to run my project.
    Instead I have plenty of great ntld names.

    • Nick says

      June 27, 2017 at 4:06 pm

      A domainer that doesn’t know how to find a find a domain, so weird.

    • Rhonda Maza says

      June 27, 2017 at 6:52 pm

      Alexwebsite.com is available

      • Jane Doe says

        June 27, 2017 at 10:20 pm

        Which may be a perfectly useless name for the project in question.

        Fuk-tard.com

        Is also available, but probably not ideal for a child oriented website now is it.

      • Alex says

        June 28, 2017 at 12:58 am

        safe.world, study.world
        cardio.city and
        organic.one

        These are my names. Can one find anything cool like these among .coms???

        • Nick says

          June 28, 2017 at 8:30 am

          Yep, extremely easy to find brandable .com’s like that at low reseller pricing. Or you just trying to complain you can’t find them for reg fee?

          • Alex says

            June 28, 2017 at 8:59 am

            Yes. One can hardly get .com names like these for less than USD 5,000

          • Nick says

            June 28, 2017 at 10:49 am

            why are you on a domainer blog? You can’t be a domainer if you think you have to pay end user prices like 5,000 for those types of domains.

  7. Seth Hoyt says

    June 27, 2017 at 4:17 pm

    So then explain to me why the a company whose website is lexagent.net was not even interested in the .com version I own. The most they would offer is $100 which doesn’t even cover my own costs of ownership to date. Even if they’re a small business, I always thought the .com was significantly better to own then the .net but they were completely uninterested.

    • Richard says

      June 27, 2017 at 5:00 pm

      They told you they’re not interested so you let it drop… It’s a small shop and they already gave everyone their .net email addresses, what did you expect?


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