Internet Grows to 348.7 Million Domain Name Registrations in the Fourth Quarter of 2018
The .com and .net TLDs had a combined total of approximately 153.0
million domain name registrations in the domain name base3 at
the end of the fourth quarter of 2018, an increase of approximately 1.3
million domain name registrations, or 0.8 percent, compared to the third
quarter of 2018. The .com and .net TLDs had a combined increase of
approximately 6.6 million domain name registrations, or 4.5 percent,
year over year. As of
New .com and .net domain name registrations totaled approximately 9.5 million at the end of the fourth quarter of 2018, compared to 9.0 million domain name registrations at the end of the fourth quarter of 2017.
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1 The figure(s) includes domain names in the .tk ccTLD. .tk
is a free ccTLD that provides free domain names to individuals and
businesses. Revenue is generated by monetizing expired domain names.
Domain names no longer in use by the registrant or expired are taken
back by the registry and the residual traffic is sold to advertising
networks. As such, there are no deleted .tk domain names. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20131216006048/en/Freenom-Closes-3M-Series-Funding#.UxeUGNJDv9s.
2The
generic top-level domain (gTLD) and ccTLD data cited in the brief: (i)
includes ccTLD Internationalized Domain Names, (ii) is an estimate as of
the time the brief was developed and (iii) is subject to change as more
complete data is received.
3 The domain name base is the
active zone plus the number of domain names that are registered but not
configured for use in the respective Top-Level Domain zone file plus the
number of domain names that are in a client or server hold status.
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