[AfrICANN-discuss] Latest Domain Name Industry Brief shows continue growth in domain names.

[Anne-Rachel Inné]

VeriSign: 138M Domains Registered, New Registration Hits Record Wednesday,
August 29th, 2007

*Latest Domain Name Industry Brief from VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN) shows
continue growth in domain names.*
 <http://www.trafficz.com/default.asp?o=DNW>
VeriSign has released its quarterly
report<http://www.verisign.com/static/042726.pdf>on domain names and
says there are now 138M registered domains across all
top level domains (TLDs) — that's 31% more than this time last year. The
number of registrations in Q2 2007 hit an all time high with 14.5M new
domain name registrations.

Much of the growth is attributed to .cn, the country code domain (ccTLD) for
China. There are roughly 6M .cn domain names registered, out of 50M country
code domains registered (including .de, .uk, etc.) total.

VeriSign estimates that 10% of new domain names registered are purchased
with the sole intent of being monetizied through domain parking. 23% of
domain names are currently
parked<http://www.parked.com/tour/?promo=D671D4E7C3>,
although VeriSign defines "parked" as having only one page. Many advanced
parked sites have multiple pages and may not be included in that total.

The report did not mention the pending wholesale price increase for .com
domains. VeriSign is jacking up
prices<http://domainnamewire.com/2007/02/02/verisign-says-domain-name-price-hikes-coming/>7%
this October. VeriSign's take on new .com domains will be $6.42.
Registrars also pay a $.20 ICANN fee, bringing the cost up to $6.62 per year
per domain. If you own a large portfolio of domain names, you should
consider renewing your domains before October.
 - Posted in Policy & Law <http://domainnamewire.com/category/policy-law/>by
*Andrew <http://domainnamewire.com/author/editor/>*

http://domainnamewire.com/2007/08/29/verisign-138m-domains-registered-new-registration-hits-record/
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