Third Quarter of 2017 Verisign Report

[codeispoetry]

https://investor.verisign.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=1052279

Third Quarter of 2017 Closes with 330.7 Million Domain Name Registrations on the Internet

what does this mean?
Total # of domains that exists as registered domains in the world today or the total number that was registered as a new domain + registration extended for the previously registered domain?

the post is slightly confusing?

I think that post doesn’t tell us how many total # of registered domains exists today.

Any idea?

[Dr_John]

So you didn’t make it as far as the fourth paragraph then, where it tells you the number of new registrations that quarter…