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There are already 280 million domains on the Internet.

Domain registrar VeriSign summed up 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 280 million.

The largest increase is in the .com and .net zones, which collectively expanded to 128.9 million domain names. The number of .com domains was 113.7 million, and .net domains - 15.2 million.

VeriSign reports that for the II quarter. In 2014, the average number of DNS queries was 95 billion per day for all domain zones managed by VeriSign. Peak value - 204 billion.
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Compared with the previous quarter, the average daily number of requests increased by 11.7%, and the peak value - by 70.4%. If we compare with the same period in 2013, the growth is 18.8% and 16.6%, respectively.

The growth of the Internet continues as more and more people and non-living objects connect to the Web, publish their status and exchange data.

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/363863/


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