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VeriSign: 5.2 Million More Domain Names

Base of registered domain names continues to grow.

VeriSign released its quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief today, reporting that the total base of domain names increased by 5.2 million last quarter to 215 million.

Registrations have grown by more than 16.9 million since the second quarter of 2010.

The total base of .com and .net domain names passed 110 million. There were 8.1 million new .com and .net registrations during the quarter. VeriSign manages the registry for both of these top level domain names.

VeriSign reports that the rankings of country code top level domain names in terms of registration base stayed about the same. .Eu dropped one spot to ninth and China now holds the number eight spot.

You can view the full report here (pdf).

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