VeriSign's August Domain Name Industry Brief, as always, shows big growth in domain registrations to a worldwide total of more than 138 million. ccTLDs, such as .uk and .de, were responsible for a large chunk of the growth this time, almost 6 million domains. .com and .net, the VeriSign domains, grew more than that, but not a lot more. .cn (China), .ru (Russian Federation) and .kr (South Korea) all grew by double-digit percentages. The huge growth in .cn domains, 61% over the previous quarter, is probably due, in large part, to an aggressive price promotion by the domain's registry, just RMB1.00 (about $0.13) for the first year. At the end of the 2nd quarter there were more than 73 million .com and .net domains, the overwhelming majority .com. 11% of the growth comes from the "domain name monetization" segment, which is to say the people who just put ads on the page.