.US Domain Registrations Increased for the 8th Straight Month in May - Growth Rate More Than Double That of All ccTLDs Combined 

By Ron Jackson

.US domain registrations climbed for the eighth consecutive month in May 2022, adding 6,216 domains to push the American ccTLD's total to 1,845,459. Over the past three months the .US total has gone up 54,548 domains (a 3.4% rise in 90 days). In the 11 months since ADN launched last July, .US is up 9.1% - a much faster growth rate than the last available statistics for the ccTLD market  at large. According to the last 

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Verisign Domain Name Industry Brief the all ccTLDs combined grew at a 3.8% rate last year (everynation on earth and a variety of regions has an official ccTLD of their own. Germany's .de, the United Kingdom's .uk, Canada's .ca and the USA's .us are just a few examples of the more than 300 top level country code domains on the internet).

On the downside, rising interest rates aimed at reigning in runaway inflation has led to reports of business slowing down and the May numbers for .US reflect appear to reflect that. While they continued to grow, this was the first time in their current 8-month run that the number of registrations added came in below the five-digit mark.

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