Wednesday, May 2, 2012

VeriSign: Domain names grow 12% in a year, to 183M - Tampa Bay Business Journal:

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Internet domain name registrations grew 3 percent compare d with the fourth quarterof 2008. Though the ubiquitoud .com ending is still by far the most popular type ofdomaibn name, with 80 million registrations, it has not been growintg fast. VeriSign blamed the “slower growth trajectories” of .com and .net nameds on the recession. Even so, a “slower quarter” still means 2.4 milliohn new .com and .net registrations were addedx every month in thefirst quarter. New registrationsz for country code domain names havehad “notable growth” VeriSign said, particularly .us, whicyh grew 12 percent and .ru (Russiajn Federation), which grew 8 percent. Chinas (.
cn), Germany (.de) and the United Kingdonm (.uk) dominate the total base of existingf country codedomain names. China, in particular, grew fast, with 27 percengt growth year-over-year in total domain namez registered. VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN) is baseds in Mountain View.

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