History Made With 5.1 Million Domain Registrations!

[ExpireGuy]

The numbers are in....and they're off the chart! The domain name market boom continues according to Verisigns quarterly domain name industry brief.

" ....5.1 million new domain names were registered in the third quarter of 2004, representing the highest quarterly growth in Internet history. In total, worldwide domain name registrations reached a record high of 66.3 million domain names. Other important trends in Internet usage continued at strong levels, including renewal rates and the percentage of domain names associated with Web sites."
source: Verisign

The report also states that current numbers for domain registrations have increased by 33% in comparison to last years third quarter results.
Verisign officials say a large part of the registration increase is due to the pay-per-click industry.

"The Google AdSense program and other programs like that, that's spurring on the increased, rapid purchase of domain names in the U.S.," said Raynor Dahlquist, VeriSign name services group acting vice president."
source: InternetNews.com

The .com continues its virtual web address reign representing 47% of all domain names registered, with the German .de ccTLD in second, at 12%.
Domain trends for alternative gTLDs (.biz, .info etc) showed favourable digits, with registrations averaging 90 thousand per month.

source: DomainWeblog.com

 

[cogeek]

oops,
an di though that 20 millions domain names are registered!
That's is good for us!our domain names value go up

 

[Deleted member 2020]

I think there are around 30 million domains registered, but this refers to new registrations made during the third quarter of 2004

 

[Anthony Ng]

source: DomainWeblog.com

Thread moved from "Domain News" to "Advertising and Related Offers". Thanks.

 

[gariben]

look out for 4th Quarter

probably over 5.1+ million info domain names registered alone

 

[ExpireGuy]

look out for 4th Quarter

probably over 5.1+ million info domain names registered alone

Actually the tally for .info stands at just over the 2.9 million mark, but representation of those numbers(close to 50%) are rather inflated because of the Affilias free info givaways. Registrar Sipence alone is responsible for close to 1 million free info registrations.

 

[ozgression]

Wow, that's alot of domains. It's a shame that most of them seem to be taken by squatters.