• Home
  • About
  • Privacy Policy/Disclosures
  • Advertise
  • Contact

TLD Investors

Domain Investing Stats and Tips

Country code registrations up 2.4% year over year

February 16, 2018 by Raymond Hackney

Verisign released their Domain Name Industry Brief Q4 2017

Top 5 extensions:

.com

.cn

.tk

.de

.net

When it comes to new gtld’s As of Dec. 31, 2017, total new gTLD (ngTLD) domain name registrations were approximately 20.6 million or 6.2 percent of total domain name registrations across all TLDs. This is a decrease of approximately 0.5 million domain name registrations, or 2.4 percent, compared to the third quarter of 2017. ngTLDs decreased by approximately 5.0 million domain name registrations, or 19.5 percent, year over year.

The fourth quarter of 2017 closed with approximately 332.4 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of approximately 1.7 million domain name registrations, or 0.5 percent from the third quarter of 2017.1,2 Domain name registrations have grown by 3.1 million, or 0.9 percent, year over year.1,2

Total country-code TLD (ccTLD) domain name registrations were approximately 146.1 million, a 1.0 percent increase over the third quarter of 2017, and a 2.4 percent increase year over year.1,2

The .com and .net TLDs had a combined total of approximately 146.4 million domain name registrations in the domain name base3 at the end of the fourth quarter of 2017. This represents a 2.9 percent increase year over year. As of Dec. 31, 2017, the .com domain name base totaled 131.9 million domain name registrations, while the .net domain name base totaled 14.5 million domain name registrations.

New .com and .net domain name registrations totaled 9.0 million during the fourth quarter of 2017 compared to 8.8 million for the fourth quarter in 2016.

Related Content

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to print (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)

Filed Under: Domain trends, Verisign

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

Comments

  1. Alvin Brown says

    February 16, 2018 at 11:57 am

    Likely a drop in the bucket, if that, when compared to non-IDN registrations, but I wonder how much of the ccTLD growth is accounted for by IDN registration(s), specifically emoji domains?

Recent Posts

  • One year later 7910.com closes significantly lower
  • What’s one insight that has led you to become a better domainer?
  • MontyPython.net expires closes at $43,500

Recent Comments

  • Jose on What’s one insight that has led you to become a better domainer?
  • VC on What’s one insight that has led you to become a better domainer?
  • Zilla on What’s one insight that has led you to become a better domainer?

Categories

Monthly Archives

domain name news

© 2021 TLD Investors · All Rights Reserved

loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.