According to Verisign, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSN), about 24 million domain names were registered in 2008. At the end of 2008, a total of 177 million domain name registrations across all top level domain names.
This is 16% growth over previous years. In the fourth quarter of 2008, about 10.1 million new domain names were registered. The top 5 most registered domain name suffixes are .com, .cn, .de, .net, and .org.
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