The Public Internet Registry (PIR), the operator of the .org domain extension, announced in its January to June 2010 edition of “The Dashboard” that .org has surpassed 8.5 million domain registrations. The report highlighted a 7.6% growth in .org domains during the first half of 2010, doubling the growth rate of 2009. This strong performance signals continued momentum for the .ORG extension.

 

Some other figures of interest:

  • The growth of .org in the first half of 2010 outpaced both .com and .net over the same period.
  • New creates for .org showed 16.5% growth, on par with both .com and .net.
  • 77.1% of organizations renewed their .org domains for one to three years, an increase of 4% over 2009.
  • North America and the European Union continued to represent the regions with the most .org registrations. China showed growth of 4% in the first half of 2010.

 

With over 8.5 million .org domains registered, .org is the third largest generic top-level domain (gTLD), behind .com and .net.

You can always download the latest annual reports from PIR’s website at pir.org/who-we-are/annual-reports/.