33 million Internet domain names added in 2007, VeriSign says

While I am looking forward for April in order to find out the price and other important details regarding the .blog domains, here is a piece of news I came across on computerworld.com

The Internet grew by almost 33 million domain names last year, according to the fourth-quarter 2007 "Domain Name Industry" report released yesterday by VeriSign Inc., a digital infrastructure vendor that manages Internet domain names such as .com Total registrations worldwide topped 153 million across all of the top-level domain names, a 27% increase over the same quarter in 2006 and a 5% increase over the third quarter of 2007, according to VeriSign's brief

By the end of 2007, there were more than 80.4 million .com and .net domain-name registrations, a 24% increase year over year and a 4% increase quarter over quarter, according to the report. Registrations for country-code top-level domain names totaled more than 58 million, up 33% from 2006 and up 6% from the third quarter of 2007.Registrations for country-code top-level domain names totaled more than 58 million, up 33% from 2006 and up 6% from the third quarter of 2007.

I wonder now if .blog will get to beat the .net and .org, because it will certainly not be able to get higher than .com


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