Domain Name industry is constantly evolving. By mid-2016, the Internet had nearly 334,6 million Domain names worldwide, according to a report published by Verisign. Recently, this company published the results of its study: Internet now counts nearly 330 million Domain Names.
Internet increased by 6,8%
Oh wait! How can we speak of an increase when last year there were 334,6 million Domain names in the world and that in February2017 it counts 329,3 million? We are not going to fall into the numbers battle but there is a difference of nearly 5 million!
This difference could be explained by the fact that the volume of domain names in .tk (free extension of the Tokelau which has no good press) was somewhat overestimated by Zooknic. In addition, as Verisign indicates, some data are only estimations and are subject to evolution the time to have the final information.
Anyway, there is no doubt that these numbers will continue to change. It is a safe bet that the internet will continue its growth and will soon count 500 million of domain names in a few years.
Distribution of TLDs
.COM and .NET extensions continue their overall growth, reaching a combined total of nearly 142,2 million domain names by the end of 2016.
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Top 10 trending keywords on the .COM and .NET
Here are the top 10 keywords used when registering domain names with the .com and .net extensions in the last quarter of 2016. This ranking was based on the most significant increases.
| 1 | trump | shop |
| 2 | cannabis | tech |
| 3 | marijuana | art |
| 4 | weed | web |
| 5 | gain | ting |
| 6 | near | mark |
| 7 | pot | cloud |
| 8 | Christmas | travel |
| 9 | corporation | insurance |
| 10 | Donald | fit |
It is clear that some themes such as travel, insurance, trade and even cannabis are widely used, revealing that the business in this field is rather fruitful. To note that the newly US president elect, Donald Trump, is at the top of this ranking, no doubt that the Trump team and its 3 600 domain names are for something!
Ranking of domain extensions by country
Following the regulation of the .tk numbers, the .CN takes the second place and thus becomes the 1st domain name extension in the world. This shows the rapid development of the internet empire. Compared to 2016, France comes out of the top 10, despite the fact that the French Internet registered at the end of last year, more than 3 million domain names in .FR
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