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August 31, 2007

Domain registrar VeriSign said on Aug. 29 that it has published its second quarter Domain Name Industry Brief for 2007.

VeriSign's publication reveals there are currently more than 138 million domain names registered globally.

In terms of total base of registrations, the largest TLD (top-level domains) are .com, Germany's .de, .net, United Kingdom's .uk, China's .cn and .org.

Overall, the rapid expansion of domain name registrations in the second quarter of this year can be attributed to the strong growth in country code TLD registrations, such as China's .cn, Russia's .ru and South Korea's .kr.

On average, ccTLDs grew to about 51.5 million by the end of the second quarter, approximately 13% more than the first quarter of this year, and 36 percent more than the same quarter of 2006.

Also, other gTLDs saw a significant growth, including .com and .net, which grew to 73 million new domain name registrations.

The global increase in new domain name registrations has brought along a greater demand on the registry infrastructures.

For its part, VeriSign says its registry infrastructure continued to experience heavy demand, peaking at about 30 billion domain name system queries every day in the second quarter.

VeriSign's root-level servers continued to maintain operational accuracy and stability for 100 percent of the time, the company said.

Early in 2007, VeriSign announced its Project Titan initiative, which seeks to expand and diversify the capacity of its global Internet infrastructure, ten-fold in less than three years.

Raynor Dahlquist, v.p. of naming services at VeriSign said "as the Web grows and becomes even more global, so does the challenge to ensure that businesses and Internet users throughout the world can rely upon it."

He added "VeriSign is focused more and more on ensuring that as the Internet develops, it remains accessible and operational around the world and at all times."

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Source: The WHIR