Domain Name Services VeriSign released Monday data show

The data for the domain service VeriSign released in Monday showed that the number of global new domain names increased by more than 6.1 million in the fourth quarter of 2012, compared with more than 252 million of all top-level domain names as at December 31, 2012.

In the fourth quarter of last year, the number of new domain names increased by 2.5% in the third quarter, and the 8th consecutive quarter growth rate of more than 2%. 2012, the number of global domain name registration reached 26.6 million, an increase of 11.8%.

In the quarter, the number of registered. com and. Net domain names grew, with a total of 121.1 million, up 6.4%. As of December 31, 2012, the. com domain name has a registered base of 106.2 million, and the. NET domain name has a registered base of 14.9 million. In the quarter, the number of. com and. NET domain names was 8 million, up from 7.9 million in the same period of 2011, while the domain name renewal rate was 72.9%, higher than 72.5% in the third quarter.

VeriSign publishes a "Domain name industry newsletter" Every quarter to track trends related to top-level domain names. As the controller of the. com domain name registration, the growth of. com domain name registration is no doubt beneficial to VeriSign. But with the launch of a new top-level domain later this year, the future use of different top-level domains will be more decentralized. Last month, in an initial assessment of ICANN, the Internet domain name Management Agency, VeriSign obtained several top-level domain names that were not Latin.

In the third quarter, top-ranking domain names changed in size from the second quarter. The CN domain name rose from 8th to 7th, while the. Info dropped one. The top 10 other top-level domain names have not changed, respectively,. com,.,. NET,. tk,. uk,. org,. cn,. Info,. nl, and. Ru. The registration of the. tk domain is on the rise, and 97% of the active domain name registrations are free, VeriSign said. 2012, the registration of TK domain name increased by 11.8%.