Verisign released their Q3 2020 Domain Name Industry Brief. .Coms increased, new gtld’s were down 1.5 million vs Q2. However year over year registrations were up.
From the report:
The third quarter of 2020 closed with 370.7 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 0.6 million domain name registrations, or 0.2 percent, compared to the second quarter of 2020.1,2 Domain name registrations have grown by 10.8 million, or 3.0 percent, year over year.1,2
Total country-code TLD (ccTLD) domain name registrations were 160.6 million at the end of the third quarter. ccTLDs decreased by 1.2 million domain name registrations, or 0.7 percent, year over year.
The .com and .net TLDs had a combined total of 163.7 million domain name registrations in the domain name base3 at the end of the third quarter of 2020, an increase of 1.7 million domain name registrations, or 1.0 percent, compared to the second quarter of 2020.
Total new gTLD (ngTLD) domain name registrations were approximately 30.2 million at the end of the third quarter of 2020, a decrease of 1.5 million domain name registrations, or 4.7 percent, compared to the second quarter of 2020. ngTLDs increased by 6.2 million domain name registrations, or 25.8 percent, year over year.
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