New domains top 196 million

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Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Tuesday 21 September 2010 at 21:49:00

VeriSign reports seven per cent increase in registrations

Users created some 196.3 million new domains in second quarter of 2010, according to VeriSign.

The web registrar said that registrations of new domains were up by seven per cent over the same period last year, and up two per cent over the first quarter of 2010.

On average, the company reported that users logged 62.5 billion DNS queries each day, with a high point of 83.6 billion. The daily average was up 28 per cent over the 2009 quarter.

Outside of the .com and .net domains, Germany's .de domain was the most popular domain for new sites. Second on the list was the United Kingdom's .uk domain, followed by .cn (China,) .nl (Netherlands) and .eu (European Union.)

The company also posted the results of a report it had commissioned on the use of the DNSSEC security protocol.

The Forrester Research study found that just 43 per cent of businesses surveyed had heard of DNSSEC.

Of those that had heard of the protocol, 88 per cent plan to or have already budgeted for DNS security measures, while 51 per cent of respondents reported being targeted by attacks on DNS servers.

"With so many factors pointing toward the need for widespread DNSSEC adoption, one of the greatest obstacles lies in building awareness of the technology and its value among the internet community as a whole," said VeriSign senior vice president and chief technology officer Ken Silva.

"The path toward global deployment is a long one, but with the implementation of DNSSEC at the root and the growing call for DNS security measures at companies and organisations, the community has taken a significant first step."

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