Over 300mn internet domain registrations in 2017The fourth quarter of 2017 closed with 332.4 million domain name registrations across top-level domains (TLDs), said a recent report of Verisign, a US-based domain name and internet security provider. The .com and .net TLDs had a combined total of approximately 146.4 million registrations in the domain name base in the fourth quarter of 2017. The .com and .net TLDs had a combined total of approximately 146.4 million registrations in the domain name base in the fourth quarter of 2017. As of December 31, 2017, the .com domain name base amounted to 131.9 million registrations, while the .net domain name amounted to 14.5 million registrations. New .com and .net registrations totalled nine million during the fourth quarter of 2017 compared to 8.8 million in the same period in 2016.