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Base May Top 200 Million This Quarter — Domain Registration

There may by now be 200M domains registered.

It’s possible that the total number of domain names right now registered has by now exceeded 200 million.

In VeriSign’s latest Domain Industry Brief (pdf), the firm states June ended with a total of 196.3 million domains registered across gTLDs and ccTLDs. That’s up regarding 3 million from the first quarter. The second quarter is generally a little slow for domain registrations, so we might see the increase more this quarter. That means that, at the time you’re reading this, we might have by now crossed the 200 million plateau.

Other factoids from the latest brief:

-Based of ccTLDs was regarding even compared to last quarter at 76.3 million

-Fresh .com and .net registrations totaled 7.9 million over past quarter, down 2% from Q1 (but the firm states this is usual for the second quarter). This is 13% better than the same quarter last year.

-China’s .cn continues to slip thanks to heavy registration restrictions

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