The company Verisign, which is the administrator of domain zones. com and. net, today published a report on the development of the Internet domain name system in Q3 2007. According to the company's total annual number of registered second-level domains has increased by almost a third (31%), reaching 146 million names.
The most significant growth is not observed in the international zone, while the national ccTDL. During the year the number of domains that are linked to the area of a country, grew by 38 % to 54.6 million marks in domain names.
The report says that the new national registration areas have grown rapidly, and only in the third quarter growth slowed to 7 % or 12 million new names. ' The slowdown of registrations in the third quarter represents only some correction on the background of the phenomenal growth in the second quarter. The general trend is still positive ' - note the authors of the report. If we compare the 3rd quarter 2006 from the current Q3, the growth of registrations will still be very significant - 25%.
The most active of all the developed areas of China's national domain. CN. In the Verisign say that such rapid growth is partly related to the completion of four -letter options and common names of the rumors about the fact that almost all the names in. CN is already taken. Through such active development, the Chinese domain name registrations by the total amount surpassed not only the German area. DE, but also the international zone. NET. In the Verisign predict that by the end of December, the rate of registration is greatly reduced.
' The main feature of the health of the domain industry is indicator of the domain registration renewal. The steady extension of the service name suggests that these names are needed and used. In addition, the domains are involved, and a springboard for the registration of new names ...
The company said that the actual figure of 2004 renewability of registrations has never fallen below 70% in the third quarter of 2007 it was recorded at around 74%, higher than in 2005 (72 %) but lower than last year (77%).
Also Verisign say that in the upcoming versions of the reports and data will appear on localized domains, such as Asian or Cyrillic.
CyberSecurity. RU.
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