Profits grow even faster at .com domain name registry.
Revenue for the third quarter was $308.421 million, up slightly from $305.777 million in the same quarter of 2018.
It kept its costs down, however, so its operating income jumped from $194.997 million to $205.616 million.
The total base of registered .com and .net domains increased 3.8% year-over-year. During the quarter, a net 1.27 million .com and .net domains were added after accounting for deletions. That brings the total to 157.4 million domains.
9.9 million .com/.net domains were registered during the quarter, up from 9.5 million in the same quarter last year.
.net registration numbers are declining.. not sure why Verisign still reports these stats for both TLD’s combined…
I think they did it at first to make the numbers look better. They might switch if the .net numbers cause the base to go down.