Verisign, the registry behind .com and .net, has released their September 2016 issue of the Domain Name Industry Brief, and with it, shared some insight about the growth and revenue of domain names across all TLDs.
Here’s a breakdown of some of the most interesting facts and figures shared in the report:
Verisign reported an estimated 334.6 million registrations of domain names across all TLDs at the end of the second quarter of 2016. That’s an increase of 7.9 million domain names over the previous quarter, and a growth of 38.2 million domains year over year.
There were a reported 22 million registrations of New Domains as of June 30, 2016. In the grand scheme of things, New Domains make up only 6.6% of total current domain registrations. However, it’s important to remember that the first round of New Domains didn’t become available until October 2013, and many are still in the process of being released.
Unsurprisingly, .COM is the TLD with the most registrations, with .NET and .ORG ranking 5th and 6th respectively. While ccTLDs make up the majority of the top 10 list (including .TK, .CN, .DE, .UK, .RU, and .NL), the New Domain .XYZ has also managed to break into the top tier of domain names, coming in 8th with over 6.5 million registrations at the time of publication.