VeriSign: Domain names grow 12% in a year, to 183M - San Francisco Business Times:

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Internet domain name registrations grew 3 percent compared with the fourtjh quarterof 2008. Though the ubiquitous .com endingh is still by far the most populad type ofdomain name, with 80 million registrations, it has not been growing VeriSign blamed the “slower growth trajectories” of .com and .net names on the Even so, a “slower quarter” still means 2.4 millionj new .com and .net registrations were added everyg month in the first quarter. New registrations for country code domainb names havehad “notable growth” recently, VeriSign said, particularly .us, whicgh grew 12 percent and .ru (Russian Federation), which grew 8 percent. China (.cn), Germany (.
de) and the United Kingdomj (.uk) dominate the total base of existingg country codedomain China, in particular, grew with 27 percent growth year-over-year in totaol domain names registered. VeriSign VRSN) is based in Mountain View.