{"id":9,"date":"2018-09-10T12:52:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T16:52:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-12-22T08:02:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T13:02:40","slug":"domain-name-industry-stats-from-new-verisign-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexyz.com\/blog\/domain-name-industry-stats-from-new-verisign-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Domain name industry stats from new Verisign report"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Just last week, Verisign \u2013 the global leader in the domain name and Internet security services, released its latest domain name industry report<\/a>, which offers an up-to-date insight into the global TLD market trends.<\/p>\n

The report covers the second quarter of 2018 and gives valuable information about the TLD performance on the domain market.<\/p>\n

Check out the main domain name<\/a> industry highlights from the report and see which types of domains are most popular at Thexyz.<\/p>\n

What is the Verisign domain industry report?<\/h2>\n

The latest industry report from Verisign shows that the first half of 2018 closed with about 339.8 million domain name registrations across all TLD extensions worldwide.<\/p>\n

This figure marks a 2% increase of domain registrations compared to the first quarter of 2018, which means that approximately 6 million more
\ndomain names were registered over a period of just 3 months!<\/p>\n

This is quite a remarkable figure, bearing in mind that the number of domain registrations in the previous quarter period grew by only 1.4 million (0.4%) as compared to the fourth quarter of 2017. In comparison to the figures from a year ago, domain name registrations mark a 2.4% spike, which translates into an increase by almost 8 million domain name.<\/p>\n

In their latest report, Verisign presents a breakdown of the domain registrations by TLD, which gives a good idea of the most popular TLDs
\non the market:<\/p>\n

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As of June 30, 2018, the most popular gTLDs on the market are .COM, .NET, .ORG and .INFO as their base (a total of 165.4 million) represents 49% of all registrations worldwide.<\/p>\n

.COM keeps being the front runner with the impressive 135.8 million registrations, which have grown by 5% since June 2017.<\/p>\n

The other three gTLDs show a drop in registrations compared to last year, with .NET reaching a 7% decrease in numbers.<\/p>\n

The total number of country-code (ccTLD) domain name registrations amounts to 149.7 million, which represents around 44% of all TLD
\nregistrations, as of June 30 2018.<\/p>\n

This is an increase of approximately 5.5 million domain name registrations, or 3.8 percent, compared to the second quarter of 2017.<\/p>\n

According to the Verisign\u2019s report, the most popular ccTLD, as of June 30, 2018, is .CN with the stunning 22.7 million registrations, followed by .TK (a free ccTLD), .DE<\/a> (Germany\u2019s TLD), .UK and .RU.<\/p>\n

The remainder of the Top 10 chart of ccTLDs is completed by the Netherlands\u2019 .NL TLD, Brazil\u2019s .BR TLD, the European Union\u2019s .EU<\/a> TLD, France\u2019s .FR TLD and Italy\u2019s .IT<\/a> TLD.<\/p>\n

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The total reported amount of nTLDs at the end of the first half of 2018 was 21.8 million, a decrease of approximately 2.5 million domain name
\nregistrations, or 10.4 percent, compared to June 30, 2017. According to the report, the most popular nTLDs are .TOP<\/a>, .LOAN<\/a> and .XYZ<\/a>, followed by .CLUB<\/a> and .ONLINE.<\/p>\n

The report includes a chart, which shows that nTLD registrations represent 6.4% of all TLD registrations:<\/p>\n

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For more TLD stats, check out the latest issue of the Domain Name Industry Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What are the most popular TLD’s at Thexyz?<\/h2>\n

Following up with the report of Verisign, we\u2019ve made our own research into the TLD trends across Thexyz.<\/p>\n

As of June 30, 2018, we\u2019ve observed a 5% increase in the number of domain registrations compared to the volumes from a year ago.<\/p>\n