domains Internet Grows to 299 Million Domain Names in the Third Quarter of 2015

[News]

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), a global leader in domain names and Internet security, today announced that approximately 3.1 million domain names were added to the Internet in the third quarter of 2015, bringing the total number of registered domain names to approximately 299 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of Sept. 30, 2015, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief.

During the third quarter of 2015, Verisign's average daily Domain Name System (DNS) query load was approximately 120 billion queries per day across all TLDs operated by Verisign, with a peak of nearly 593 billion. Compared to the previous quarter, the daily average query load increased 8.0 percent and the peak increased by 225.3 percent. Year over year, the daily average query load increased by 4.8 percent, and the peak increased by 86.4 percent.

Read More

 

[decode]

There are over 3x more Facebook subdomains (users) than total domain name registrations. The industry has so much room to grow. The funny thing is once people see how easy it is to actually register a domain name they usually find themselves registering more for all kinds of personal and business uses.