An ever growing market
Posted by easydomains on September 4, 2007
VeriSign have released their most up to date Domain Name Industry Brief and it looks like the domain name market is still growing rapidly. According to this most recent report, new domain registrations hit an all time high in the second quarter of 2007 with 14.5 million domain name registrations, bringing the total base of domain name registrations worldwide to a staggering 138 million across all Top Level Domains (TLDs).
ccTLD registrations also increased dramatically, mainly driven by the growth of .cn, to 51.5 million registrations by the end of the second quarter of 2007. The report does however suggest that while there are now more than 240 ccTLD extensions available, 66% of the total registrations are made up of the top 10.
According to Verisign, the top 10 ccTLD registreis by domain name base (second quarter 2007), were:
1. .de (Germany)
2. .uk (United Kingdom)
3. .cn (China)
4. .nl (Netherlands)
5. .eu (European Union)
6. .it (Italy)
7. .ar (Argentina)
8. .us (United States)
9. .br (Brazil)
10. .ch (Switzerland)
View the report online for yourselves: http://www.verisign.com/static/042726.pdf
