Number of domains across the world up by 12% in 2012
More than 250 million domain names were registered at year end 2012 on the Internet, 12% more compared at year end 2011, according to registry groups VeriSign’s Domain Industry Brief.
VeriSign’s also reports over 6 million new domain names registered on the Internet in January-March 2013.
As per VeriSign’s data, the biggest number of registered names in 2012 are .com (about 40%), as well as .net, .uk, .org, .info, .cn, .nlі, .ru.
