VeriSign: The total number of existing domain names increased by 3% by 183 million

Beijing time June 5 Morning news, according to foreign media reports, the United States domain name registration service VeriSign Thursday reported a quarterly report that the existing domain name of about 183 million, compared with the previous quarter, a growth of 3%, compared with last year's growth of 12%. The report shows that the fourth quarter is typically a low ebb period for. com and. NET registrations, but the number of domain names registered in 2008 is also low, in part because of the "current macroeconomic environment".　　But in the first quarter of this year, the number of domain registration has rebounded. In the first quarter of 2009, the number of new registrations in. com and. NET was about 2.4 million per month, with a total of 7.3 million in the quarter, up 17% from the previous quarter, the first positive increase since the first quarter of 2008.　　The report also showed that, starting in the first quarter of 2007, the update rate of. com and. NET began to fall from the 77% peak in the fourth quarter of 2006, but the update rate in the first quarter of 2009 was the first increase in two years to 71%. After a brief trough, the situation seems to be starting to improve, analysts said. However, this growth of. com looks trivial compared to ccTLD (country and region top-level domain names). The VeriSign report shows that although. com is still top of the list of domain names, the. cn and. De, representing both Chinese and German websites, have surpassed. NET and leaped second and third positions. (Tangfeng)