{"id":937,"date":"2018-12-12T18:34:46","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T02:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casbay.com\/?p=937"},"modified":"2022-09-22T23:33:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T15:33:39","slug":"domain-name-registrations-count-totals-342-4m-in-q3-2018-verisign-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casbay.com\/blog\/tips-sharing\/domain-name-registrations-count-totals-342-4m-in-q3-2018-verisign-report","title":{"rendered":"Domain name registration count total 342.4M in Q3 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The global\u00a0domain name registrations\u00a0count has reached 342.4 million across all top-level domains (TLDs) in the third quarter of 2018, finds Verisign.

The data reveals that around 2.6 million new domain names were registered in Q3. Domain name registrations have increased by 0.8%quarterly and 3.5% year-over-year.\u00a0<\/p>

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Domain Name Registration<\/figcaption><\/figure>

.com and .net TLDs count<\/strong><\/h2>

The number of .com and .net TLDs together totaled around 151.7 million at end of Q3 2018, representing an increase of 2 million new domain name registrations (1.3%), as\u00a0compared to second quarter 2018. These domain names combinedly increased by 4% YoY (5.9 million).

At the end of Q3 2018, the total number of .com and .net domain name base was found approximately 137.6 million and 14.1 million domain name registrations, respectively.

Talking about new .com and .net domain name registrations in Q3, these together totaled to around 9.5 million domain name registrations. At the end of same quarter last year, this total was 8.9 million.<\/p>

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Top 10 largest TLDs<\/strong><\/h2>

At the end of Q3 2018, the top 10 TLDs globally included .com, .cn (China), .tk (Tokelau), .de (Germany), .net, .uk (United Kingdom), .org, .ru (Russia), .nl (Netherlands), and .info.<\/p>

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ccTLD domain name registrations<\/strong><\/h2>

According to\u00a0Verisign, the count of country-code TLD (ccTLD) domain name registrations totaled to 149.3 million, decreasing by 0.3% (0.5 million) compared to Q2 2018. By YoY, the count has seen rise of 3.2% (4.6 million).<\/p>

Top 10 ccTLDs<\/strong><\/h3>

At the end of Q3 2018, the top 10 TLDs were .cn (China), .tk (Tokelau), .de (Germany), .uk (United Kingdom), .ru (Russian Federation), .nl (Netherlands), .br (Brazil), .eu (European Union), .fr (France), and .au (Australia).<\/p>

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ngTLD domain name registrations<\/strong><\/h2>

The total number of ngTLD domain name registrations reached 23.4 million at the end of Q3 2018, up 7.5% (1.6 million) from Q2 2018.

These domain names increased by 10.9% (2.3 million) year over year. The top 10 ngTLDs accounted for around 52.6% of all ngTLD domain name registrations.<\/p>

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