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Internet domain names grow to 177 Million in 2008

With 24 million new domain names being added in 2008, total base of internet domain surged to 177 million. This represents a 16 percent growth over the previous year.

As per the findings of U.S. based web infrastructure services provider VeriSign, in the fourth quarter of 2008, more than 10.1 million new domain names were registered across all Top Level Domains (TLDs). The five largest TLDs in terms of base size were .com, .cn (China), .de (Germany), .net, and .org. The composition of the domain name industry and rank order in terms of base size remained consistent in the fourth quarter. The overall base of .com and .net domain names grew to 90.4 million at the end of 2008. This represents a 12 percent increase over the previous year and a one percent increase over the third quarter of 2008.

1 comments:

  1. the economy downtime is forcing every one to move their business online to cut down the costs

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