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December 1, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Internet security company and domain registry operator VeriSign Inc. (verisign.com) announced on Wednesday tiat it has released the Domain Name Industry Brief for the third quarter of 2004, noting the registration of 5.1 million new domain names during the quarter, the highest quarterly growth in Internet history.
According to VeriSign, total domain name registrations worldwide reached its highest ever level of 66.3 million domain names. The company also reported strong growth in renewal rates, and the percentage of domain names associated with Web sites.
The company also noted new growth in the .com and .net domains, as well as growth in country code top level domains and a general shift in the overall top-level domain makeup to incorporate more country code domain acceptance. The study also showed increases in the percentage of registered domains connected to live sites, percentage renewal rates and a growth in domain value, driven in part by the PPC advertising market.
Another key trend identified by the study was the further establishment of the .net domain's role in the health and functioning of the Internet overall. While the domain accounts for only eight percent of domain names worldwide, it includes 58 percent of hosts and 30 percent of name servers.
VeriSign says information for its fourth Domain Name Industry Brief was derived from data the company sees as operator as the operator of the registry for the .com and .net domains and two root servers for the global domain name system.
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This has been, for us, one of the most interesting, exciting and challenging build-ups to an issue of the magazine yet, Web Hosting's All Star Team. The balloting process was our first experiment with a kind of user participation we're planning to do a lot more with in the months to come. We had thousands of ballots submitted, with hundreds of write-in suggestions and a demonstration of user engagement that has us feeling super positive about the project.
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One of the interesting luxuries of working on a project like the printed WHIR magazine is that it allows us to play with things like our point of view from one issue to the next. In recent months we've been giving added attention to the kind of practical and applicable advice aimed at smaller hosts and resellers. This issue carries on with that point of view, asking, in our cover story, "what am I worth?" It's a complicated question without a clear-cut answer.
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