According to Verisign (VRSN) the registry for .Com, the number of .Com registration crossed the 125 million mark in the Domain Name Base. The active zone file is just over 124 Million domain names. The active zone file does not include domain names that are not configured for use, and those in client or server hold status. At TheDomains.com when we report on .Com domain registrations we … [Read more...]
Verisign Working On Getting Contract To Operate .Com Registry For 10 More Years
In the earnings call today, Verisign (VRSN) announced that it was in "in the final stages of drafting the new Root Zone Maintainer Agreement with ICANN "to perform this Root Zone Maintainer role as a commercial service for ICANN upon the successful transition of the IANA functions." "To ensure that root operations continue to perform at the same high level during the expected 10-year term of … [Read more...]
Verisign Expects Higher Non-Renewal Rates From Those 4th Q Domains Reg By Chinese Investors
Verisign reported its earnings for the 4th quarter of 2015 and financial results for 2015. In the earnings call today, Verisign made some interesting comments about that huge volume of .Com domain name registration we saw from Asia the 4th quarter of 2015: Bottom line Verisign expects those domain names registered in the 4th quarter, which those in the domain investor community, know … [Read more...]
Verisign’s Top Trending Keywords In December For .Com & .Net Include Chinese Fang & Wang
The top 10 trending keywords registered in .com and .net during the month of December 2015 are below release by Verisign the registry for .Com and .Net are as follows. Interesting to note that Wang is the third biggest gTLD extension (.Wang) by registration volume with over 620,000 registrations as of today's totals. … [Read more...]
The Number of .Com Domains Top 124 Million For The First Time
According to Verisign the number of the .Com domain names has crossed the 124 million mark for the first time today. As of Dec. 31, 2014, the base of registered names in .com equaled 115.6 million names. We are running a poll on the right hand side of our site on how many .com domain names you think will be registered as of January 1, 2017 please feel free to vote and for … [Read more...]
Quick Poll: How Many .Com’s Will Be Registered By 1/1/17?
So the final count for the number of registered domain names for January 1, 2016 is 123,963,640 according to Verisign. As of Dec. 31, 2014, the number of .Com registrations were 115.6 million names. So the number of .Com's increased some 7 Million in 2015 or over 7%. The question is how many .Com will be registered by next year, 1/1/17? This year we all know we had a short period of … [Read more...]
Verisign DNIB Q3 2015 Registrations have grown by 14.8 million, or 5.2 percent, year over year
Verisign (VRSN) released their 2015 Q3 Industry Brief Some takeaways: The total number of registered domain names rose to 299 million worldwide across all top-level domains 3.1 million domain names were added to the Internet in Q3 2015: This increase globally equates to a growth rate of 1.1% over Q2 2015 Worldwide registrations have grown by 14.8 million, or 5.2 percent, year over … [Read more...]