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Verisign releases their fourth quarter industry brief

February 28, 2017 by Raymond Hackney

Verisign released their fourth quarter 2016 Domain Name Industry Brief.

At the end of Q4 2016, new generic TLD (ngTLDs) registrations totaled 25.6 million, which represents 7.8 percent of total domain name registrations.

com and .net Breakdown

The .com and .net TLDs experienced aggregate growth, reaching a combined total of approximately 142.2 million domain names in the domain name base3 in the fourth quarter of 2016.  In the fourth quarter, Verisign processed 8.8 million new domain name registrations for .com and .net, as compared to 12.2 million domain names for the same period in 2015.

TLD Breakdown

In the fourth quarter of 2016, the top 10 TLDs in order by zone size were:1

Top 10 TLDs in Q4 2016
Top 10 Largest TLDs by Number of Reported Domain Names

ccTLD Breakdown

Country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) reached 142.7 million domain names at the end of Q4 2016, with an increase of 2.6 million domain names, or a 1.8 percent increase compared to the third quarter of 2016.1,2 As of Dec. 31, 2016, the top 10 ccTLDs by zone size were:

Top 10 ccTLDs in Q4 2016
Top 10 ccTLDs

New gTLD Breakdown

At the end of Q4 2016, new generic TLD (ngTLDs) registrations totaled 25.6 million, which represents 7.8 percent of total domain name registrations. The top 10 ngTLDs represented 63.5 percent of all ngTLD domain name registrations. The following chart shows ngTLD domain name registrations as a percentage of overall TLD domain name registrations, and also the top 10 ngTLDs as a percentage of all ngTLD domain name registrations for the fourth quarter of 2016.

New gTLDs in Q4 2016
New gTLDs as Percentage of Total TLDs

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About Raymond Hackney

Raymond Hackney has been involved with domain names since 1997. One of the most prolific writers in the domain industry and founder of TLDinvestors.com and 3Character.com

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