Domain Name Industry Review

THE DOMAIN NAME WW. Search INDUSTRY http://www.thedomainnameindustry.com Q1 2015 DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATIONS .... ... 294 6.5% ww MILLION DOMAIN NAMES INCREASE YEAR OVER YEAR REGISTERED GLOBALLY FROM Q1 OF 2014 TOP 10 LARGEST TLDS BY ZONE SIZE 125 100 75 50 25 .COM .TK .DE .NET .CN .UK .ORG .RU .NL INFO GROWTH OF .COM & .NET Verisign is the global registry operator for .cOM and .NET. 133 3.1%INCREASE COMI MILLION .COM & .NET DOMAIN NAMES IN THE DOMAIN NAME BASE2 IN Q1 2015 YEAR OVER YEAR FROM Q1 2014 8.71 MILLION NEW.COM & .NET DOMAIN NAMES IN Q1 2015 LARGEST CCTLDS BY ZONE SIZE CCTLDS are designated for use by countries and territories. .RU .TK (ΤΟKELAU) .DE (GERMANY) .CN (CHINA) .UK (UNITED KINGDOM) (RUSSIAN FEDERATION) 06 02 07 03 08 09 .NL (NETHERLANDS) .EU (EUROPEAN UNION) .BR (BRAZIL) .AU (AUSTRALIA) .FR (FRANCE) GTLD BREAKDOWN BY ZONE SIZE 22% OF USERS TODAY BELIEVE THAT THEY COULD BE THE TARGET OF A CYBER ATTACK SMARTPHONE AND TABLET BROWSING ACCOUNTED FOR 52% OF ALL ONLINE TRAFFIC ON THANKSGIVING DAY LARGEST NEW GTLDS BY ZONE SIZE ON DAY 60 OF THEIR GENERAL AVAILABILITY PERIOD .XYZ .WANG .WANG .RENTALS .EVENTS .CLUB .ТОКYO .NINJA .WEBCAM .WIEN Total CCTLD registrations were approximately 132.1 million in the third quarter of 2014, with the addition of 3.2 million domain names, or a 2.5 percent increase compared to the second quarter of 2014. This is an increase of approximately 12.8 million domain names, or 10.7 percent, from a year ago. AMONG THE 10 LARGEST CCTLDS, .TK GREW THE FASTEST, AT 9.1 PERCENT OVERALL QUARTER OVER QUARTER GROWTH. SOURCES: bi WEBSITEHOSTING.COM https://press.kaspersky.com/files/2014/08/Kaspersky_Lab_Consumer_Security_Risks_Survey_2014_ENG.pdf https://gigaom.com/2014/12/01/ibm-mobile-traffic-surpassed-desktop-traffic-on-thanksgiving-day/ https://czds.icann.org/en http://ntldstats.com/launch?orderby=start&orderdir=asc&filterby=start&start=2014-07-01&end=2014-10-01&tld=&filter%5%5D=4 http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20131216006048/en/Freenom-Closes-3M-Series-Funding#.UxeUGNJDv9s SNOIT7IW