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About 7.9 million domain name registrations were added to the Internet in the second quarter of 2016, taking the total number to about 334.6 million.
The rise, about 7.9 million domain name registrations globally, equates to a growth rate of 2.4 per cent over the first quarter of 2016. Domain name registrations have grown by 38.2 million or 12.9 per cent year-on-year, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief released by Nasdaq-listed VeriSign.
The top-level domains (TLDs) such as .com and .net grew to about 143.2 million domain names, a 7.3 per cent rise from the same period a year ago. As of June 30, 2016, the .com domain name base equalled 127.5 million domain name registrations, while the .net domain name base equalled 15.8 million domain name registrations.
New .com and .net domain name registrations totalled 8.6 million during the second quarter of 2016. In the second quarter of 2015, new .com and .net domain name registrations totalled 8.7 million.
During the reporting quarter, Verisign’s average daily Domain Name System (DNS) query load was about 130 billion queries per day across all TLDs operated by Verisign, with a peak of nearly 179 billion queries.
Quarter-on-quarter the daily average query load increased 4.9 per cent and the peak decreased by 5 per cent. Year-on-year, the daily average query load increased by 17 per cent, and the peak decreased by 1.5 per cent, it said.
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