Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Q4 2017 - How Did .Com Domains Fare?

Pretty well it seems.  The Verisign Domain Name Industry brief is out for the Fourth quarter of 2017.

Registration of .com domains remains strong, with 131.9 million .com domains registered as of December 31, 2017.  This is an 0.84% increase over the prior quarter, and a huge improvement over Q4 2016, which saw a decline of 1.17% in .com domain registration.  Year over year, it's a 2.73 % increase in .com domain registration.

Here is the updated chart:
Number Registered (Millions) Quarter Increase (%)
131.9 Q4 2017 0.84%
130.8 Q3 2017 1.24%
129.2 Q2 2017 0.62%
128.4 Q1 2017 1.18%
126.9 Q4 2016 -1.17%
128.4 Q3 2016 0.71%
127.5 Q2 2016 0.71%
126.6 Q1 2016 2.10%
124 Q4 2015 3.25%
120.1 Q3 2015 1.35%
118.5 Q2 2015 0.59%
117.8 Q1 2015 1.90%
115.6 Q4 2014 0.61%
114.9 Q3 2014 1.06%
113.7 Q2 2014 0.44%
113.2 Q1 2014 1.07%
112 Q4 2013

Registration is still moving along, despite 130 million .com domains already being registered.