Backbone-News

Verisign has just released the March 2008 edition of the Domain Name Industry Brief (PDF). As Always it is a very interesting read, and gives a good impression of the continuing growth in our industry.

Just to give an example, I picked one interesting fact: The growth per ccTLD. While the German ccTLD (.de) is still the leader (12% growth year to year), the UK ccTLD ( 17% growth) has been pushed back to the third place by the chinese ccTLD with a massive 399% growth year to year!

1. .de (Germany)
2. .cn (China)
3. .uk (United Kingdom)
4. .eu (European Union)
5. .nl (Netherlands)
6. .ar (Argentina)
7. .it (Italy)
8. .us (United States)
9. .br (Brazil)
10. .ch (Switzerland)

Have a look at the complete report for details about the other TLD and also an update on the use of IPv6 in in relation to DNS.

1&1 Internet announced on Tuesday the 10 Millionth domain registration. 1&1 offers domain registrations at low prices, including normally at least some basic hosting service. They confirm that they have seen “pleasing” growth of the domain name business over the past years. In fact they have double the number of domain names over the past 3 years.

The press-release also indicates that they have a 7 million strong customer base today, which consist of a 50/50 split between business users and consumers.