Time: March 8, 2012
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　The 2011 Q4 Domain Name Industry Brief report released by VeriSign shows that in the fourth quarter of 2011, the total number of registered domain names was 225 million, an increase of 10 over the same quarter in 2010.
　The .com and .net Top Level Domains (TLDs) experienced aggregate growth in the fourth quarter, reaching a combined total of 113.8 million names. This represents approximately an 8 percent increase over the same quarter in 2010.
　New .com and .net registrations totaled 7.9 million during the quarter. This is a 4 percent increase year-over-year in new registrations.
　Registrations have grown by more than 20.4 million, or 10 percent, since the fourth quarter of 2010.
The .com/.net renewal rate for the fourth quarter was 73.5 percent, up from 73.3 percent for the third quarter.
Verisign’s average daily Domain Name System (DNS) query load during the quarter was 64 billion, with a peak of 117 billion. Compared to the previous quarter, the daily average increased 8 percent and the peak grew 51 percent.