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15 Million Domain Names Added in Q4, Verisign Says

About 15 million domain names were added to the Internet in Q4, raising the total number of registered domain names globally to 314 million, Verisign said in a report. Worldwide domain name registrations in Q4 grew by almost 26 million,…

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a 9 percent increase over the same period in 2014, Verisign said. There were a combined 139.8 million .com and .net domain names at the end of Q4, up 6.3 percent from 2014, Verisign said. The company’s average daily Domain Name System query load in Q4 increased by 11.9 percent from 2014 to 123 billion queries.