Verisign Reports Total Domain Registrations Worldwide Reached Over 378 Million at the End of 3Q-2025, Leaping by More Than 16 Million From a Year Ago 

VeriSign, (the administrator of the .com and .net TLDs) has released their latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief (DNIB) covering the 3rd quarter of 2025. This update showed the total number of domain registrations across all TLDs worldwide ended the most recent quarter at 378.5 million. That is up a healthy 16.2 million from a year earlier, representing a 4.5% year-over-year increase.

.Com, the dominant TLD on the Internet, continued to bounce back from what had been a slow decline in total registrations earlier in the year. At the end of the 3rd quarter .com regs stood at 159.4 million, an increase of 1.5 million from the end of the previous quarter and 2.7 million from the same point a year ago. .Net however continued in the opposite direction, slipping to 12.5 million registrations at the end of 3Q-2025, down about 400,000 registrations year over year.

The ccTLDs ended 3Q-2025 with 144.8 million domains registered. That is up 4.8 million from last year, giving them a YOY growth rate of 3.4%.

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 42.9 million registrations, up 7.4 million from a year ago, representing a tidy 21.0% leap in the last year. There is much more interesting data you can review in the full brief. 

(Posted December 5, 2025)   

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