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VeriSign has released its new Domain Name Industry Brief. According to the report, more than 33 million new domain names were registered in 2007. The growth rate is slightly lower than in last year’s other quarters, but that has usually been the case in the fourth quarter of earlier years, too. There are more than 150 million registered domain names now.
The .com gTLD is still the most popular top-level domain, followed by .de, .net and China’s ccTLD .cn. Overall, 2007 was a very good year for ccTLDs: The total number of ccTLD registrations was just under 60 million at the end of 2007, up from about 45 million in 2006.
What I find interesting, is the registry renewal rate of .com and .net. The rate has been about the same since 2004, always being around 75%. I expect this rate to fall if both pay-per-click prices and the overall economy will continue to decline, because some domain owners might then find it increasingly hard to pay their renewal bills.
Click here to download your PDF copy of VeriSign’s Domain Name Industry Brief, March 2008.
It is not true “33 million domain registrations in 2007,” the truth is “In 2007, the Active Domains rose by 33 million”.
The formula is:
Active Domains rose in 2007 = New Registered Domains in 2007, less Expired Domains in 2007.
Jordi, as written in my post:
“According to the report, more than 33 million *new* domain names were registered in 2007. (…) There are more than 150 million registered domain names now.”
By the way, if the number of registered domains rises in a given year it does not necessarily mean that less domains expired in that year than in the previous year. As I stated, the renewal rate has always been about the same so far.