150 million+ Domain Names registered

9 03 2008

Verisign has issued its latest report on domain name registration confirming that that number of registered domain names crossed 150 million in 2007. The report further states that during the fourth quarter of 2007, our good old Internet grew by nearly 33 million domain names!

Wow…. domain names are sure getting in vogue with more and more people viewing it as a profitable business 😀

I can tell you by experience that registering domain names could become an addiction with no certified remedy if not checked in time! 😉

But at the same time, the major share of the pie is taken by the .com domains and .net domains, which crossed the number of 80.40 million domain name registrations at the end of 2007, representing a 24% increase year over year.

New .com and .net domain name registrations were seen as growing at an average of 2.5 million per month in the fourth quarter 2007 for a total of 7.5 million new registrations.

Whatever anyone says, it is the domain registrar community that is benefiting the most from this tide in domain name registrations!