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Recession Weighs on Web Address Growth

Andrew LaVallee, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 23, 2009 at 8:01 am PT

Maybe sexy Super Bowl ads aren’t helping the domain name business as much as we thought. Domain registrar VeriSign’s latest report on the state of the industry shows that while more than 10.1 million new Web addresses were registered in the fourth quarter, this was a 17 percent drop from the period a year earlier.