Domain name registrations grew nine percent in 2009

by Steve Ragan - Sep 22 2009, 16:10

A new report from VeriSign shows that by the end of the second quarter, TLD (Top Level Domain) registrations grew nine percent over last year’s figures, to 184 million domains worldwide. In terms of total registrations, .COM continues to have the highest base, followed by .CN (China), .DE (Germany) and .NET.

According to the figures, VeriSign says that in the second quarter of 2009, nine million new domains were registered across all of the TLDs. When you compare this to the first quarter of 2009, it represents a 14-percent decline in new registrations, or a 15-percent decline when compared to Q1 2008.

Focusing only on .COM and .NET domains, the total base grew to 93.5 million new domains in the second half of 2009, which is a 28-precent increase over the numbers from Q2 2007.

Overall, the 184 million domain registrations set a new milestone in registrations. New .COM and .NET registrations were added at an average of approximately 2.3 million per month in the second quarter of 2009, that’s seven million new registrations in the quarter.

In addition to the jump in .COM and .NET registrations, VeriSign said that the Country Code TLDs (ccTLDs), such as .CN, grew 14-percent to 74.4 million. There are more than 240 ccTLD extensions globally, but the top 10 ccTLDs comprise 66 percent of the total number of registrations.

In terms of the total base of domain name registrations, .CN, .DE and .UK accounted for the largest number of new registrations. Together, the bases of domain name registrations for these three ccTLDs represented 45-percent of all ccTLD registrations.

For more details, the entire report is here.

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