Posted by New Delhi : VeriSign, Inc., a global provider of domain name registry services and internet infrastructure, today said that in the first quarter of 2019, 351.8 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs) were made.
It’s an increase of 3.1 million domain name registrations or 0.9 percent, compared to the fourth quarter of 2018. While, domain name registrations have grown by 18.0 million or 5.4 percent, year over year.
The .com and .net TLDs had a combined total of 154.8 million domain name registrations in the domain name base at Q1, 2019 end, an increase of 1.8 million domain name registrations or 1.2 percent, compared to Q4, 2018.
Both .com and .net TLDs had a combined increase of 6.5 million domain name registrations or 4.4 percent, year over year. As of March 31, 2019, the .com domain name base totaled 141.0 million domain name registrations, while the .net domain name base totaled 13.8 million domain name registrations.
New .com and .net domain name registrations totaled 9.8 million at Q1, 2019 end compared to 9.6 million domain name registrations at Q1, 2018 end.