According to Verisign, operator of the .net and .com registries, the total number of domains registered reached 76.9M names as of Q1 2005. Other statistics released by Verisign:
-22% year-over-year growth in active domain registrations
-6.7M new domain registrations in Jan-March of this year
-In Jan-March of this year, an average of 1.6M new .net and .com registrations were added each month
-Renewal rates for .net and .com domains are around 75%, near a historic high
-.com extension accounts for 47% of all registrations
-62% of .net and .com domains have live web sites
-The USA has the most registrations at nearly 26M, or 36% of all domains, followed by Germany with about 11M domains.
You can review the entire report here.
Clearly, the domain name market is as strong as ever.
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