The total number of domains in the world has reached 210 million.
The company is launching cloud services. The first cloud service will be website creation in the cloud using Parallels Plesk SiteBuilder. This is the first solution on the Russian market that is natively integrated into the hosting platform.
Up to 90,000 domain names are registered in Russia each month, and more than half of them are quickly delegated to create new websites. According to REG.RU experts, approximately 5% of new websites in Russia can be created using Parallels Plesk Sitebuilder, leading to a projected monthly increase of up to 2,000 clients.
Parallels Plesk SiteBuilder is one of the most advanced tools on the Russian market for creating standard turnkey web pages without the need for expensive web studio services. Thanks to a large number of design templates grouped by industry, even a user with no experience in design or web programming can design and launch a fully functional website.
Clients can use the Parallels Plesk Sitebuilder website creation application in addition to registering a domain name in over 150 domain extensions, choosing a suitable hosting plan, and enabling free email on their own domain. This simplicity and ease of use will be appreciated by small and medium-sized businesses and start-ups, for whom creating and launching a high-quality website quickly and without additional costs is crucial. Furthermore, a website created with Sitebuilder can be optimized for search queries using Google's webmaster tools, managed through the Parallels hosting panel.
To enable users to get acquainted with the new product and see the advantages of the website creation solution, REG.RU has introduced a fully functional free demo version.SiteBuilder 5.2.
In its latest Domain Name Industry Brief, Verisign presented domain statistics for the first quarter of 2011. According to these data, the number of domains worldwide increased by 4.5 million and reached 210 million.
The number of names increased by 2.2% compared to the previous quarter. Over the previous 12 months, the increase was 15.3 million, or 7.9%.
According to Verisign, the total number of domain names in the .COM and .NET domain extensions reached 108 million, representing an increase of 8.3 million registrations, or 9.2% year-on-year and 2.7% quarter-on-quarter. There are 95 million registered names in the .COM domain.
Overall, .COM was the largest TLD, far ahead of the German domain .DE with 14.4 million registrations. In third place was the .NET domain with about 13 million, followed by .ORG (which reached 9 million registrations in early March), .UK (United Kingdom – 9.4 million), .INFO, .NL (Netherlands – 4.4 million), .EU (European Union – 3.3 million), .CN (China – 3.3 million), and rounding out the top ten was .RU (Russia – 3.3 million).
Statistics for all ccTLDs (country code top-level domains) excluding .CN, as of May 25. .CN registration statistics were last published on February 28, and given its decline over the past year, it's likely that .CN ranks, at best, in tenth place.
The number of ccTLD domain registrations increased by 2.1% quarter-on-quarter and 5.1% year-on-year, representing a total increase of 81,700 domain names. The top ten ccTLDs were: .DE, .UK, .NL, .EU, .CN, .RU, .BR (Brazil), .AR (Argentina), .IT (Italy), and .PL (Poland).
The number of re-registrations in .COM and .NET domains increased to 73.8% in the first quarter of 2011. In the fourth quarter of 2010, this figure was 72.7%.
Verisign's report also details the average daily DNS load. In the first quarter of this year, it was 57 billion requests, with a peak of 67 billion. Compared to the same period in 2010, the average daily load and its peak increased by 6%.
