VeriSign released the latest issue (PDF file) of its quarterly Domain Industry Brief, providing us with an update on the latest domain statistics.
By the end of June 2008, there were more than 168 million registered domains, which represents a growth of 22% over the preceding 12 month period.
In terms of registrations, .com remains the largest top level domain, followed by .de, .cn, .net, .uk and .org:
Other interesting facts:
- In the first quarter of 2008, 74% of expiring .com and .net domains were renewed by their owners, which is within the historical range of 74% to 77%.
- 68% of all .com and .net domains resolve to live websites consisting of more than one page, 22% are parked (this includes PPC domains, websites under construction and sites consisting of only one page) and the remaining 10% do not have a website of any kind.
- VeriSign processed peak loads of more than 48 billion daily DNS queries for .com and .net domains. Average numbers were not released for this year; in the fourth quarter of 2006 the average had been 25 billion queries per day, compared to 1 billion queries per day in 2000.
