Domain Registration Related News
Domain name registrations hit record
September 2004
Domain name registration hit an all-time high
of 64.5 million at the end of the second quarter,
VeriSign said Tuesday.
The figure represents a 7 percent increase over
the end of 2003, the Internet domain name registry
said. For the quarter, the number of registrations
was 4.6 million, up 2.5 percent from the first
quarter. VeriSign said the growth in registrations
last reached this level in the late 1990s, during
the height of the dot-com bubble.
Under a contract with the Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), VeriSign
operates the master database of all .com and .net
domains. VeriSign collects a few dollars a year
for each domain name from the approximately 200
ICANN-accredited registrars that sell domain names
to the public.
Although .com domains continued to lead the list,
country code top-level domains emerged as the
fastest-growing group and now account for 39
percent of all domain registrations. The most
popular are .de for Germany and .uk for the United
Kingdom.
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