domains Verisign The Domain Name Industry Brief Q1 2021

[Lox]

The first quarter of 2021 closed with 363.5 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), a decrease of 2.8 million domain name registrations, or 0.8%, compared to the fourth quarter of 2020.1,2 Domain name registrations have decreased by 3.3 million, or 0.9%, year over year.1,2

Total country-code TLD (ccTLD) domain name registrations were 156.5 million at the end of the first quarter of 2021, a decrease of 2.4 million domain name registrations, or 1.5%, compared to the fourth quarter of 2020.1,2 ccTLDs decreased by 0.9 million domain name registrations, or 0.6%, year over year.1,2

The .com and .net TLDs had a combined total of 168.0 million domain name registrations in the domain name base3 at the end of the first quarter of 2021, an increase of 2.8 million domain name registrations, or 1.7%, compared to the fourth quarter of 2020. The .com and .net TLDs had a combined increase of 7.3 million domain name registrations, or 4.6%, year over year. As of March 31, 2021, the .com domain name base totaled 154.6 million domain name registrations, and the .net domain name base totaled 13.4 million domain name registrations.

New .com and .net domain name registrations totaled 11.6 million at the end of the first quarter of 2021, compared to 10.0 million domain name registrations at the end of the first quarter of 2020.

Total new gTLD (ngTLD) domain name registrations were 22.8 million at the end of the first quarter of 2021, a decrease of 3.2 million domain name registrations, or 12.3%, compared to the fourth quarter of 2020. ngTLDs decreased by 9.5 million domain name registrations, or 29.3%, year over year.

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[DuDD]

 

[redemo]

@Lox Cheers mate. Why so many .tk (Tokelau) registrations? 24.7 million seems a high number for what is essentially a collection of coral reefs in the south pacific ocean with total number of humans less than 10000.

 

[Lox]

@Lox Cheers mate. Why so many .tk (Tokelau) registrations? 24.7 million seems a high number for what is essentially a collection of coral reefs in the south pacific ocean with total number of humans less than 10000.

http://www.dot.tk is for-free domain name. Always been. (For a small fee you can upgrade to s.c. Premium)

 

[redemo]

@Lox Free domain name ?

 

[Lox]

@Lox Free domain name ?

yes, $0

 

[Future Sensors]

@Lox Free domain name ?

Yes, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.tk

 

[redemo]

@Lox Oh right I see what they did. It's a hook to get you looking at all the other available extensions. You buy the name in another extension and .tk gets a kick back. Clever.

 

[redemo]

I'm going to open a free diamond store. You can choose any free plastic toy diamond or buy a real one from the display cabinet.