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With many ccTLD operators recently reporting stagnant growth or shrinkage, one registry has performed stunningly well over the last year. Sadly, it bears the hallmarks of another speculative bubble originating in China. Verisign’s latest Domain N...
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June 10, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.tw, allegravita, dnib, Domain Registries, taiwan, twnic
The number of domains registered in new gTLDs slipped again in the first quarter, but it was not as bad as it could have been. Verisign’s latest Domain Name Industry Brief, out today, reports that new gTLD domains dropped by 800,000 sequentially ...
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May 31, 2019 Kevin Murphy
dnib, domain name industry brief, Domain Registries, Famous Four Media, ffm, grs domains
The number of registered .com domains increased by more than double the growth of all new gTLDs last year, according to figures from Verisign. The latest Domain Name Industry Brief reports that .com grew by 7.1 million names in 2018, while new gTLDs gr...
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April 2, 2019 Kevin Murphy
dnib, domain name industry brief, Domain Registries
The total number of registered domain names in all TLDs was up 0.9% in 2017, despite a third-quarter dip, according to the latest data compiled by Verisign. The latest Domain Name Industry Brief, published yesterday, shows that there were 332.4 million...
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February 16, 2018 Kevin Murphy
dnib, Domain Registries, newgtlds
The total number of domains registered in the world suffered a rare period of decline in the third quarter, according to Verisign’s latest numbers. The Q3 Domain Name Industry Brief shows September ended with 330.7 million registered names across...
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December 20, 2017 Kevin Murphy
dnib, domain name industry brief, Domain Registries, junk drop
The growth of the domain name industry slowed in the first quarter, numbers published today by Verisign reveal. According to its latest Domain Name Industry Brief (pdf), the domain universe grew to 330.6 million in Q1. That’s an increase of 1.3 million names on Q4 2016, a 0.4% sequential increase, and 11.8 million names, 3.7% […]
