Report Suggests Domain-Name Pain May Be Past
After shrinking for nine months, domain name registrations finally grew in July, offering a ray of hope for embattled registrars VeriSign (VRSN Quote) and Register.com (RCOM Quote).
The total number of domain names ending with .com, .net and .org grew by 128,874 to 27.1 million in July, according to the Zooknic Internet Geography Project, which tracks Internet domain names. July marks the first full calendar month of growth in total number of domain names since September.
Zooknic's results generally concur with results to be released Wednesday by research firm SnapNames in its latest "State of the Domain" report, said publisher Mason Cole. SnapNames found that total .com, .net and .org names grew by 129,419 to 27.2 million in July. (The numbers differs from Zooknic because the two groups do not count names at the exact same time.) ...
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