Tag Archives: zone file

Tue 16th October 2012
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
.Com expansion rate negligence (but usually slightly) - Data show a slight reduction in .com growth rate, but it’s still over 8% per year. A couple weeks ago Michael Berkens wrote a story about how the base of .com and .net domain registrations was slowing “to a crawl”. A few days later Treffis issued a report stating “Verisign’s Dropping .com And .net Is A Troubling Trend”. The numbers in Berken’s post didn’t quite make sense to me. The Treffis report refers to .com and .net having a falling market share, ... read more ...
Fri 27th July 2012
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Behold, a .com ticker! - An up-to-date number of .com registrations. As I mentioned last night, Verisign has started released daily domain counts for both the .com and .net namespaces. The information is now available at this page. The data includes both domains that are in the zone file as well as registered domains that don’t have nameservers (and thus, don’t show up in the zone file). As of this morning there are over 104 million .com domain registrations and close to 15 million .net ... read more ...