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.
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.com, 30 years old and still growing.
nTLD’s, 3 years old and already in decline.
Go figure.
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.
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…
the program as a whole is dying so a handful out of 1000 is not significant growth.
Also you need to heavily discount the worth of domain registrations that are almost continuously discounted to $1 or less
Do you mean .coms sold by GoDaddy for 99 cents?…
Only .com works!!! Everything else is a waste of time.
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.
Not even 1 .com for each person in the US, never mind the rest of the world, still room to grow?
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.
A domainer that doesn’t know how to find a find a domain, so weird.
Alexwebsite.com is available
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.
safe.world, study.world
cardio.city and
organic.one
These are my names. Can one find anything cool like these among .coms???
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?
Yes. One can hardly get .com names like these for less than USD 5,000
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.
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.
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?