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Verisign Reports 7.9 Million New Domain Name Registrations in Q2

About 7.9 million new domain names were registered globally in Q2, domain registry Verisign said Thursday. The new registrations indicated a 2.4 percent growth rate over Q1 (see 1607200047) and 12.9 percent growth over the same period in 2016, the…

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company said. The new registrations brought the global number of domain names up to 334.6 million as of June 30, including more than 143 million names using the .com and .net top-level domains, Verisign said: There were 127.5 million .com domain names and 15.8 million .net domain names June 30.