Verisign (Nasdaq: VRSN) released their Domain Name Industry Brief for Q2 2022. You can download the full report here.
Highlights of the report show 351.5 million domain registrations. .Com and .Net registrations were up 2.2% from Q2 2021.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The second quarter of 2022 closed with 351.5 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains, an increase of 1.0 million domain name registrations, or 0.3%, compared to the first quarter of 2022.1,2 Domain name registrations have increased by 10.4 million, or 3.0%, year over year.1,2
The .com and .net TLDs had a combined total of 174.3 million domain name registrations in the domain name base3 at the end of the second quarter of 2022, a decrease of 0.4 million domain name registrations, or 0.2%, compared to the first quarter of 2022. The .com and .net TLDs had a combined increase of 3.7 million domain name registrations, or 2.2%, year over year. As of June 30, 2022, the .com domain name base totaled 161.1 million domain name registrations, and the .net domain name base totaled 13.2 million domain name registrations.
New .com and .net domain name registrations totaled 10.1 million at the end of the second quarter of 2022, compared to 11.7 million domain name registrations at the end of the second quarter of 2021.
I mean are we REALLY supposed to believe that ICANN has raised registration fees
by 10% to the point where everyone is complaining ,and most all registrars are now
charging alot more for .com and .net registrations, but somehow users are registering
more domains??
This is impossible to believe. but I guess great for Verisign stock. I myself have dropped
almost 300 domains in just the last 2 months alone, and have now nearly stopped
completely registering new domains all together. Registration prices are now just
too HIGH, while the available name quality is total crap. All of the good quality domain
names were litterally registered decades ago, what are these people drinking???