Worldwide Domain Registrations Pass the 371 Million Mark - New Verisign Domain Name Industry Brief Breaks Down the Latest Numbers

VeriSign, (the administrator of the .com and .net TLDs) has released their latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief (DNIB) covering the 2nd quarter of 2025. This update showed the total number of domain registrations across all TLDs worldwide ended the most recent quarter at 371.1 million. That is up 9.3 million domains from a year earlier, representing a 2.6% year-over-year increase.

.Com, the dominant TLD on the Internet, reversed what has been a recent slow decline in total registrations by closing the quarter at 157.9 registrations. That was just slightly above the year ago figure of 157.6 million but it put .com back on its historically positive path. .Net however went the opposite direction, slipping to 12.6 million registrations at the end of the most recent quarter from 13.1 million at this point last year,  a 3.1% decline.

The ccTLDs ended 2Q-2025 with 143.5 million domains registered. That is up 3.5 million from last year, a growth rate of 2.5% that is right in line with the rate reported for all domains combined.

The new gTLDs, working from a smaller base, continued to show the highest rate of growth in percentage terms. They ended the last quarter with 39.5 million registrations, up 4.9 million from a year ago, representing a healthy 14.2% gain. There is much more interesting data you can review in the full brief.

(Posted July 28, 2025)  

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