Record breaking year for .com and .net domain registrations — 2011 was

Over 32 million fresh domain registrations in .com and .net last year.

2011 set a record for fresh .com/.net domain registrations with over 32 million registration, VeriSign disclosed on its investor conference call this afternoon:

In the fourth quarter, we added 1.9 million net names to the domain name base, and we processed 7.9 million fresh registrations, which is regarding a 4% increase over the same period a year ago. The fourth quarter was our strongest Q4 for fresh registrations on record. In fact, that’s true for each of the quarters in 2011, thus, making it our strongest year for fresh registrations with over 32 million fresh registrations processed.

There were 113.8 million combined domain names registered at the end of December.

As stated by DomainTools, there are now over 100 million .com domains registered, although VeriSign did not announce this milestone on its investor conference call today.