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VeriSign has published its second quarter 2007 Domain Name Industry Brief where it reports that the number of new domain name registrations have hit an all time high in the second quarter of 2007 with 14.5 million new registrations, exceeding the previous high mark hit in the fourth quarter of 2006. From the report:

"At the midpoint of 2007, the total base of domain name registrations worldwide was 138 million across all of the Top Level Domain Names (TLDs). This represents a 31 percent increase over the same quarter last year and an eight percent increase over the first quarter 2007. The Country Code Top Level Domain Names (ccTLDs) totaled 51.5 million domain name registrations, a 36 percent growth year over year and a 13 percent growth quarter over quarter. In terms of total registrations, .com remained the largest TLD in terms of its total base of registrations, with .de (Germany), and .net following. For the next largest TLDs, .uk (United Kingdom), .cn (China) and .org have about the same number of registrations with only 130,000 domain name registrations separating them."

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