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Lowdown
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Ron Jackson.
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Worldwide
Domain Registrations Rocket to New Record With
Verisign Reporting 411.6 Million Names Taken
Across All TLDs |
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VeriSign,
(the administrator of the .com and .net
TLDs) has released their latest quarterly Domain
Name Industry Brief (DNIB)
covering the 3rd quarter of
2026. The total number of domain registrations
across all TLDs worldwide
soared in the latest quarter with 9.9 million
names added since the end of 2Q, bringing the
global total to a record 411.6
million registered domains. 33 million domains
have been added year over year, a healthy jump of
8.7%.
.Com,
by far, the dominant TLD on the Internet, ended
the latest quarter with 169.8
million registered domains, up
10.4 million YOY, a 6.3%
increase since the same point a year ago.
Meanwhile, .Net continued
to tread water with a slight rise from 12.5
million registrations last year to 12.6 million
at the end of 2Q-2026. |
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ccTLDs finished
the latest quarter with 151.4
million registrations, 6.6
million more than a year ago,
representing a 4.6% increase
YOY - a full point higher than last year's
percentage growth rate.
New
gTLDs, working from a smaller user base,
continued to rack up impressive gains percentage
wise. With 56.6 million registrations
at the end of 3Q-2026, the new G's were up a
sizzling 32% after adding 13.7
million domains over the past
year.
For legacy
gTLDs not including .com and
.net (a group dominated by .org that
also includes older TLDs that were released prior to
the beginning of ICANN's new gTLD program in 2012
like .info and .biz), registrations stood at 21.1
million at the end of the
latest quarter. That is up 2.2
million domains which
translates to a nice double digit increase of 11.5% year
over year.
More information, including comprehensive gTLD
historical data, visualizations of long-term trends
and regional ccTLD data, is available on
DNIB.com’s Global
Domain Name Base Trends dashboard.
Expanded data and visualizations for renewal
percentages, renewals and new registrations are
available on DNIB.com’s gTLD
Registration and Renewal Trends dashboard.
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(Posted
October 23, 2026)
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