With a 31% increase year over year, the domain name market remains buoyant. There are now 146 million names registered worldwide.
.COM and .NET registry Verisign has just published its latest "Domain Name Industry Brief", showing unabated growth for domain names in the third quarter of 2007. The new total of 146 million registered names is a 6% increase over 2007's second quarter and a 31% increase over the third quarter of last year.
Verisign's figures also show strength for the Internet's country code domains (ccTLDs) with a 38% yearly increase and a total of 54.6 million registered ccTLD names. It should be noted however that while Verisign manages the .COM and .NET domains directly and therefore has precise figures for them, where ccTLds are concerned the firm depends on figures from each extension's registry. Verisign notes in its report that the gTLD and ccTLD data cited in this report are estimates to date and may change."
