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There are now more than 138 million domain names registered worldwide, according to the new Domain Name Industry Brief (PDF) by VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN). This is a 31% increase over the same quarter in 2006. Country code top-level domains (ccTLDs) grew to about 51.5 million, 36% more than the same quarter last year. The number of new domain name registrations hit an all-time high in the second quarter of 2007 with 14.5 million new registrations.

From VeriSign’s press release:

Not surprisingly, as domain name registrations increased, so have the demands on the registry infrastructures that enable users to register domain names, access Web sites, send emails or conduct commerce and communications. VeriSign’s registry infrastructure continued to experience heavy demand, processing a peak of 30 billion Domain Name System (DNS) queries per day in the second quarter. The VeriSign DNS continued to maintain operational accuracy and stability for 100 percent of the time as it has for the past nine years. As part of its commitment to continually strengthen its infrastructure, VeriSign in February announced Project Titan, a major initiative to expand and diversify the capacity of its global Internet infrastructure by ten times by the year 2010.

“As the Internet grows and becomes more global, so does the challenge to ensure that businesses and Internet users throughout the world can rely upon it,” said Raynor Dahlquist, vice president of Naming Services at VeriSign. “VeriSign is focused on ensuring that as the Internet develops, it remains accessible and operational around the world.”