Global Domain Registrations Passed the 368 Million Mark at the End of 1Q-2025 - New Verisign Brief Breaks Down What Went Up and What Went Down

VeriSign, (the administrator of the .com and .net TLDs) has released their latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief (DNIB) covering the 1st quarter of 2025. This update showed that the total number of domain registrations across all TLDs worldwide ended the most recent quarter at 368.4 million. That is up 6.1 million registrations year over year representing a 1.7% increase.  

.Com remains, by far, the dominant TLD on the Internet but .com's total number of registrations continued a trend of slipping in year over year comparisons. With 157.2 million domains at the end of 1Q-2024, .com was down about 2.2 million from the same point last year - a 1.4% decline. .Net has ebbed as well. .Net was down by 500,000 domains YOY to 12.6 million at the end of 1Q-2025, a 3.9% decrease.

ccTLDs finished 1Q-2025 with 142.9 million registrations, 3.4 million more than a year ago, representing a 2.4% increase YOY. New gTLDs enjoyed the largest jump but, being newer, they are working from a much smaller user base than the .coms and ccTLDs. Still, by adding 4.5 million domains, the new Gs reached 37.8 million domains at the end of 1Q-2025, giving them a solid 13.5% increase year over year. 

For legacy gTLDs not including .com and .net (a group that includes older TLDs that were released prior to the beginning of ICANN's new gTLD program in 2012), registrations stood at 17.9 million at the end of the latest quarter. .Org alone accounted for 11.1 million of those - representing over 60% of the category. As a group, this sub-set of legacy TLDs gained about 850,000 domains year over year - a 5% increase.

(Posted April 25, 2025)  

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