The second quarter of 2019 saw 354.7 million domain names registered
This marks a 0.8 percent increase from the previous quarter and a 4.4 percent year-over-year growth.
Domain names ending in .com and .net are proving to be particularly popular, making up 142.5 million (or 40 percent) of all registrations.
The most popular keywords used in .com and .net registrations include “libra”, “son”, “abuse”, “boy”, “dragon”, “education”, “drug”, “names”, “alcohol”, etc.
Home to the largest group of internet users, there were 23 million registrations on China’s .cn domain.
In fact, .cn leads the list of the most popular country-code domain names.
Tokelau’s .tk (Tokelau) and Germany’s .de are pretty close behind with 22.5 million and 16.2 million domain names respectively.