During the first quarter of 2014, Verisign's average daily Domain Name System (DNS) query load was 85 billion across all TLDs operated by Verisign, with a peak of 120 billion.

Compared to the previous quarter, the daily average increased 3.4 percent and the peak increased 20.6 percent. Year over year, the daily average query load increased 14.8 percent and the peak query load increased 6 percent.

As more companies bring their businesses online, there is an increased concern over domain name security.

 This quarter's featured article, "The Domain Threat Landscape: Protecting Critical Infrastructure Requires a Layered Security Approach" provides a brief summary of domain name hijacking and some preventative measures and tools to help ensure your domain name is secure.

Verisign publishes the Domain Name Industry Brief to provide Internet users throughout the world with statistical and analytical research and data on the domain name industry.

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