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 … [Read more...]
.Com Registrations Back Over 127 Million
According to Verisign the number of .Com domain names in the Domain Name Base are back over 127 million after dropping below that number briefly in December. It seems that the huge domain registration volume that occurred in the 4Q of 2015 have now recycled through. Those domain names that were dropped after the first year of registration have now dropped and its back to business as … [Read more...]
Verisign: The Top 10 Trending Keywords in .Com & .Net Registrations in December
Verisign published their Monthly Top 10 Trending Keywords in .Com & .Net Registrations. Here they are for December 2016: .COM .NET amazon near lawn custom fake control sold core broken lock bone loans museum creek certified indian puppy adult member block Here is how the report is explained by … [Read more...]
Poll Results: Less Than 20% Correctly Guessed How Many .Com Registrations There Would Be On 1/1/17
A year ago on January 1, 2016 we started a poll asking the question is how many .Com will be registered by next year, 1/1/17? On January 1, 2006 according to Verisign there were 123,963,640 .Com domain names in the Domain Base. As of today January 1, 2017 there are 126,930,421 .Com domain names. As for the poll we gave you these choices and out of the 286 votes cast this was the … [Read more...]
A look at how domain stocks did in 2016, if you owned Tucows you were very happy
2016 was a great year for shareholders of Tucows and Neustar, for shareholders of Verisign, Marchex and Sedo parent United Internet ? Not so much. Tucows was the star for 2016 up 67% on the year. Neustar got acquired and the stock finished up close to 40%. Verisign saw their fortunes take a down turn in 2016, all the speculative hand regs based on Chinese whims did not materialize in 2016 … [Read more...]
.Com Registrations Loses Another 1 Million Domains In Less Than 2 Weeks; Now Under 127 Million
It was just on December 16th that we reported that the number of .Com domain names in the Domain Name Base as reported by Verisign had dropped below 128 Million. As of today the number of .Com domain names in the Domain Name Base as reported by Verisign who operates the .Com registry has dropped by another million domains to under 127 Million. In late 2015 the Chinese domain market was on … [Read more...]
.Com Domain Registrations Back Under 128 Million
Verisign is reporting that the number of .Com domain names in the Domain Name Base have fallen below 128 Million. Back in September of this year we reported the number of .com domain name had broken through the 128 million mark for the first time. For the record, Verisign defines the Domain Name Base "is the active zone plus the number of domain names that are registered but not configured … [Read more...]