According to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief published by VeriSign, Inc. the Domain Name Industry ended the first quarter of 2010 with more than 193 million domain name registrations across all of the Top Level Domain Names (TLDs), an increase of Austrlia 11 million domain online casino name registrations casino , or 6 percent, compared to the first quarter of 2009. Compared to the fourth quarter of 2009, domain name registrations grew 0.6%.
The overall base of .com and .net domain names grew to 99.3 million domain names in the first quarter of 2010, an increase of 2.7% increase over the fourth quarter and a 7% increase over the same quarter in 2009 and a 10% increase from the previous quarter
New .com and .net registrations were added at an average of approximately 2.7 million per month in the first quarter of 2010 for a total of 8.1 million new registrations in the quarter in increase of 10% from first Q 2009.
The renewal rate for the first quarter of 2010 was 72%, an increase from the fourth quarter of 2009, which was 71.2%, a 1.2% increase.
88% of .com/net’s resolve to a website.
VeriSign’s average daily Domain Name System (DNS) query load during first quarter 2010 was 54 billion per day with peaks as high as 63.2 billion per day. Compared to fourth quarter 2009, the daily query average and the daily peak queries both saw an increase of 4%.
In ccTLD news .cn registrations dropped from 2nd place to 4th place due just in 1 quarter, to increase governmental restrictions in China.
Germany ccTLD, .de moved up one spot to number 3, due to china’s drop. Actually there are more .de registrations than .net registrations.
Compared to the 4Q of 2009, there was “notable growth” in the following extensions:
.US 15.9% increase
.pl 7.5%
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Compared to first Q 2009 the ccTLD that grew the most were:
.ru 34.4%
.pl 29%
.br (brazil) 25.9%