The overall growth rate for domain names globally was 9% for the year 2012 – a 1% drop as compared to the previous year. The slowdown mostly affected generic top level domains (.COM, .NET, etc.) with a decrease in domain registrations of about 7% within a period of 12 months (3.4% growth rate in 2012 as opposed to 10.8% in 2011). The driving forc [...]