Internet grows to 333.8 million domain name registrations in the first quarter of 2018

10:15 | 20/06/2018 Science - Technology Follow Ven.vn on

(VEN) - VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), a global leader in domain names and internet security announced that the first quarter of 2018 closed with approximately 333.8 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of approximately 1.4 million domain name registrations, or 0.4 percent, compared to the fourth quarter of 2017. Domain name registrations have grown by approximately 3.2 million, or 1.0 percent, year over year.

The .com and .net TLDs had a combined total of approximately 148.3 million domain name registrations in the domain name base at the end of the first quarter of 2018, with an increase of approximately 1.9 million domain name registrations, or 1.3 percent, compared to the fourth quarter of 2017. The .com and .net TLDs had a combined increase of approximately 4.6 million domain name registrations, or 3.2 percent, year over year.

Internet grows to 333.8 million domain name registrations in the first quarter of 2018

Top 10 largest TLDs by number of reported domain names

New .com and .net domain name registrations totaled approximately 9.6 million at the end of the first quarter of 2018, compared to 9.5 million domain name registrations for the first quarter of 2017.

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