Global Domain Registrations Hit Another Annual High at the End of 2Q-2024 - New Verisign Report Reveals the Winners and Losers

 VeriSign, (the administrator of the .com and .net TLDs) has released their latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief (DNIB) covering the 2nd quarter of 2024. This update showed that the total number of domain registrations across all TLDs worldwide ended the most recent quarter at 362.4 million. That is 5.8 million domains above the number number at the same point a year earlier, representing a 1.6% year-over-year increase.

.Com remains, by far, the dominant TLD on the Internet but .com's total number of registrations continued a recent trend of slipping from the previous year. With 157.6 million domains at the end of 2Q-2024, .com was down about 3.7 million from the same point in 2023, a 2.3% decline. .Net has continued to tread water each year but wound up with a slight increase year over year after gaining about 100,000 domains to reach 13.1 million at the end of 2Q-2024. 

ccTLDs and "new" gTLDs fared better. The country code domains finished the latest quarter with 140 million registrations, 3 million more than a year ago, representing a 2.2% increase YOY. New gTLDs enjoyed the largest jump but, being newer, they are of course working from a much smaller user base than the .coms and ccTLDs. Still, by adding 6.5 million domains the new Gs hit 34.6 million domains at the end of 2Q-2024, giving them an impressive 23.2% increase year over year. 

(Posted July 29, 2024)  

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