Monday, December 17, 2018

Verisign Q3 2018 Report on .Com Registration

Verisign's Q3 2018 report is final, and shows another quarter of strong .com domain registration.  Total .com domains now registered is 137.6 million.

Here are the updated totals for the last several years (in millions), showing the percentage increases (or decreases) for each quarter:

137.6  Q3 2018  1.46%
135.6  Q2 2018  1.27%
133.9  Q1 2018  1.52%
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

So, we saw another quarter of very strong .com registration, and we are zeroing in on 140 million.  Should be at 150 million not too long after that if the trend holds up.

On the other hand, .net domain registration continues to weaken.  Total registration of .net domains is at 14.1 million, whereas it was around 16 million just a couple years ago.

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