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Huge Internet milestone just around the corner: 100 million registered .COM domain names

October 19th, 2011 General

Dot com The Internet’s favorite top-level field is close to hitting a huge milestone. The .com field is now on the brink of reaching 100 million registered field names. It’s a real triumph for what is by now by far the world’s largest top-level field – it accounts for around 45% of all field names.

It’s not quite there yet, though. There are currently 98 million registered .com field names, so there are still two million to go. Judging by the chart here not more than from Registrar Stats, we will reach the 100-million milestone within a few months, somewhere around the end of this year.

Dot com domain name registrations

The .com field is one of the original top-level domains on the Internet, having been around since 1985 and the start of the Field Name System that we all depend upon so much.

To give you an thought of how the .com field has grown since its inception, we’ve place together this chart for you:

Dot com domain name registrations since the start in 1985

The number for December 2010 is an estimate based on the Registrar Stats chart and an ancient field name industry concise from Verisign. The others come from BV.com.

Quite incredible, isn’t it? Especially when you compare today’s numbers with the modest beginnings in the 1980s and early 1990s, before the World Wide Web (you may have heard of it) made everyone flock to the Internet.

P.S. If you wonder in this area the jagged section in the chart from Registrar Stats, here is the explanation.

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Huge Internet milestone just around the corner: 100 million registered .COM field names