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The Internet grew by almost 33 million domain names last year, according to the fourth-quarter 2007 “Domain Name Industry” report released on March 6th 2008 by VeriSign Inc. Total registrations worldwide topped 153 million across all of the top-level domain names, a 27% increase over the same quarter in 2006 and a 5% increase over the third quarter of 2007, according to VeriSign Inc.By the end of 2007, there were more than 80.4 million .com and .net domain-name registrations, a 24% increase year over year and a 4% increase quarter over quarter, according to the report.

In the fourth quarter of 2007, new .com and .net domain name registrations were added at an average of 2.5 million per month, for a total of 7.5 million new registrations in the quarter. Registrations for country-code top-level domain names totaled more than 58 million, up 33% from 2006 and up 6% from the third quarter of 2007. During the fourth quarter of 2007, VeriSign processed more than 33 billion Domain Name System (DNS) queries per day,