Verisign reports that there were 246 million domains registered across all TLDs in the third quarter of 2012, which is a 12 percent year-over-year increase.
While .com holds down the top spot in terms of total number of domain registrations, the base of ccTLDs is actually growing faster. During the third quarter of 2012, ccTLD registrations grew 18 percent on a year-over-year basis. In contrast, the total base of .com and .net registrations actually declined by 1.1 percent on a year-over-year basis.
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Dot Com Domains Top 105 Million Names
Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at InternetNews.com, the news service of the IT Business Edge Network, the network for technology professionals Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist.