{"id":120,"date":"2010-03-05T07:38:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T07:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.above.com\/blog\/?p=120"},"modified":"2013-10-17T20:55:10","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T09:55:10","slug":"25-years-over-80-million-dot-coms-registered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.above.com\/blog\/25-years-over-80-million-dot-coms-registered","title":{"rendered":"25 Years &#038; Over 80 Million Dot Com&#8217;s Registered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<span style=\"DISPLAY: inline\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 20px 20px 0px; WIDTH: 207px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 100px\" class=\"mt-image-left\" alt=\"verisign-logo.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/verisign-logo.jpg\" width=\"165\" height=\"72\" \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"DISPLAY: inline\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\">According to&nbsp;The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.verisign.com\/\">VeriSign<\/a> Domain Name Industry Brief, February 2010,&nbsp;the number of .com domains registered has grown to over <strong>80 million <\/strong>over the last 25 years.&nbsp; At the same time, the average daily DNS query volume is now more than <strong>52 billion <\/strong>queries per day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><p>Source: VeriSign, January 2010<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"DISPLAY: inline\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 20px 20px 0px; FLOAT: left\" class=\"mt-image-left\" alt=\"Verisgn 25 yr chart.png\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/Verisgn%2025%20yr%20chart.png\" width=\"421\" height=\"232\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to&nbsp;The VeriSign Domain Name Industry Brief, February 2010,&nbsp;the number of .com domains registered has grown to over 80 million over the last 25 years.&nbsp; &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"25 Years &#038; Over 80 Million Dot Com&#8217;s Registered\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.above.com\/blog\/25-years-over-80-million-dot-coms-registered#more-120\" aria-label=\"More on 25 Years &#038; Over 80 Million Dot Com&#8217;s Registered\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[204,205,203],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tld-and-cctlds-and-gtlds","tag-dns-queries","tag-dot-com-names-registered","tag-verisgn","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>25 Years &amp; Over 80 Million Dot Com&#039;s Registered - Above<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.above.com\/blog\/25-years-over-80-million-dot-coms-registered\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"25 Years &amp; Over 80 Million Dot Com&#039;s Registered - Above\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"According to&nbsp;The VeriSign Domain Name Industry Brief, February 2010,&nbsp;the number of .com domains registered has grown to over 80 million over the last 25 years.&nbsp; ... 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