Verisign (the administrator of the .com and .net TLDs) has released their latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief (DNIB) covering the 1st quarter of 2023. The quarter ended with 354 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs) worldwide, a jump of  3.5 million domains (+ 1.0%) from the end of the previous quarter. Registrations were up by the same numbers year over year (with 3.5 million added from the same point in 2022). 

.Com (the most dominant TLD on the Internet) finished 1Q-2023 with 161.6 million registrations, up about 600,000 domains from the previous quarter but only 300,000 from the same point a year ago. Verisign's .net TLD actually declined slightly year over year, sliding to 13.2 million after having 13.4 million registered at the same point in 2022.

Total country-code TLD (ccTLD) domain name registrations were 135.7 million at the end of the first quarter of 2023, an increase of 2.6 million domain name registrations, or 2.0%, compared to the previous quarter. ccTLDs were also up 1.7% year over after year, adding by 2.3 million domain name registrations.  

Total new generic TLD (ngTLD) domain name registrations were 27.3 million at the end of the first quarter of 2023, a decrease of 200,000 domains from the previous quarter. However, ngTLDs did post a 3.6% gain year over year, having added 900,000 domains from the same point a year ago. 

(Posted June 12, 2023)  

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