Internet Grows to 326.4 Million Domain Names in the First Quarter of 2016
July 19 2016 - 4:32PM
Business Wire
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), a global leader in domain names
and internet security, today announced that approximately 12
million domain names were added to the internet in the first
quarter of 2016, bringing the total number of registered domain
names to approximately 326.4 million worldwide across all top-level
domains (TLDs) as of March 31, 2016, according to the latest Domain
Name Industry Brief.
The increase of approximately 12 million domain names globally
equates to a growth rate of 3.8 percent over the fourth quarter of
2015. Worldwide registrations have grown by 32.4 million, or 11
percent, year over year.
The .com and .net TLDs experienced aggregate growth in the first
quarter of 2016, reaching a combined total of approximately 142.5
million .com and .net domain names in the domain name base. This
represents a 7.1 percent increase year over year. As of March 31,
2016, the domain name base of .com equaled 126.6 million names,
while .net equaled 15.9 million names.
In the first quarter, Verisign processed 10 million new domain
name registrations for .com and .net, as compared to 8.7 million
domain names for the same period in 2015.
During the first quarter of 2016, Verisign’s average daily
Domain Name System (DNS) query load was approximately 124 billion
queries per day across all TLDs operated by Verisign, with a peak
of nearly 189 billion. Quarter over quarter, the daily average
query load increased 0.5 percent and the peak decreased by 2.7
percent. Year over year, the daily average query load
increased by 3.5 percent, and the peak increased by 14.2
percent.
Verisign publishes the Domain Name Industry Brief to provide
internet users throughout the world with statistical and analytical
research and data on the domain name industry. The first quarter
2016 Domain Name Industry Brief, as well as previous reports, can
be obtained at Verisign.com/DNIB.
About Verisign
Verisign, a global leader in domain names and internet security,
enables internet navigation for many of the world's most recognized
domain names and provides protection for websites and enterprises
around the world. Verisign ensures the security, stability and
resiliency of key internet infrastructure and services, including
the .com and .net domains and two of the internet's root servers,
as well as performs the root-zone maintainer functions for the core
of the internet's Domain Name System (DNS). Verisign’s Security
Services include intelligence-driven Distributed Denial of Service
Protection, iDefense Security Intelligence and Managed DNS. To
learn more about what it means to be Powered by Verisign, please
visit Verisign.com.
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