Verisign Registry Services, the operator of the .com and .net gTLDs, reported Thursday it added 1.51 million net new names during the first quarter of 2015 in its financial results for the first quarter of 2015. This means the quarter ended with 133.0 million .com and .net domain names, a 3.1 percent increase over the base at the end of the first quarter in 2014, as calculated including domain names on hold for both periods.