Internet continues growth, 10 years after dot.com bubble

The internet continues to spread its web, 25 years after the dot.com birth, and a decade after the internet bubble, with 192 million domain names registered by internet users, by the end of 2009, according to latest figures provided by US internet infrastructure provider Verisign, Gulf News has reported. Verisign operates the.com and .net top level domains. Verisign said in the fourth quarter of 2009 alone, some 11 million domain names were registered, 'reflecting a steady pace of internet growth'.