The Internet already 280 million domains

Domain registration VeriSign подвёл outcome for the II quarter. 2014 and published statistics on the number of domain names that exist on the Internet.

During the reporting quarter, the number of domains increased by 4 million and reached the level of 280 million pieces.

The largest increase occurred in zones .com and .net, which together increased to 128, 9 million domain names. The number of domains .com was 113, 7 million, and domain .net - 15, 2 million.

VeriSign reports that for the II quarter. In 2014 the average number of DNS-queries was 95 billion per day on all domain zones, which are managed by VeriSign. The peak value of - 204 billion.

Compared with the previous quarter, the average daily number of requests increased by 11, 7%, and the peak value - 70, 4%. If compared to the same segment 2013, the increase is 18, 16 and 8%, 6%, respectively.

Growth of the Internet continues as more and more people and inanimate objects are connected to the web, publish and communicate status.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/242402/