Verisign Reports Domain Registrations Surged to Nearly 387 Million Worldwide in 4Q-2025 With .Coms, ccTLDs & New gTLDs All Contributing to Record High

VeriSign, (the administrator of the .com and .net TLDs) has released their latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief (DNIB) covering the 4th quarter of 2025. This update showed the total number of domain registrations across all TLDs worldwide ended the year at 386.9 million. That is a surge of 22.7 million domains compared to the same point a year earlier - a very strong 6.2% jump year-over-year.

.Com, the dominant TLD on the Internet, accounted for 161 million of those global registrations. That is a 4.7 million gain from a year earlier, representing a 3% rise. .Net remained unchanged from the previous quarter as 12.5 million but that is a dip of
about 200,000 .nets since the end of 4Q-2024.

The ccTLDs ended 4Q-2025 with 145.6 million domains registered. That is up 4.8 million YOY for a 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 4Q-2025 with 47.8 million registrations, up 11 million from a year ago, representing a 29.9% leap in the last year. 5 million of those were added in the fourth quarter alone, indicating growth in that group was accelerating,

Verisign also has a category they call "other legacy TLDs" which are extensions that existed prior 2012, with almost all of those being .org (~ 11 million), .info (~ 5 million) or .biz (~ 4 million). Verisign reported total registrations for the group stood at 20 million at the end of 4Q-2025, up 2.4 million (a healthy 13.7%) year over year.

 There is much more interesting data you can review in the full brief here. 

(Posted February 11, 2026)  

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