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Quarter One of 2016 Grew By 12 Million Domains Registered, [...]
Quarter One of 2016 Grew By 12 Million Domains Registered, According to VeriSign
📅 - VeriSign released a Q1 2016 Domain Name Industry Brief, which showed the total domains registered, including all TLDs, has reached 326.4 million. This is up 12 million from Q4 of 2015 or a total of 3.8%. The total number of domains redirecting to popular ecommerce and social media sites grew significantly, too.
VeriSign processed a total of 10 million new .com and .net domains in Q1 2016. This is up 1.3 million compared to Q1 of 2015. Redirects to LinkedIn from a .com or .net rose by 35%, while those leading to Twitter, Facebook, Amazon.com and Etsy rose between 23% and 30% depending on the site. Weibo, a Chinese social media site, saw redirects jump by 49%.
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