DNIB.com Reports Internet Has 378.5 Million Domain Name Registrations at the End of the Third Quarter of 2025
VerisignVerisign(US:VRSN) Businesswire·2025-10-23 21:00

Core Insights - The total number of domain name registrations reached 378.5 million at the end of Q3 2025, marking an increase of 6.8 million or 1.8% from Q2 2025, and a year-over-year increase of 16.2 million or 4.5% [1] Group 1: Domain Name Registrations - The .com and .net top-level domains (TLDs) had a combined total of 171.9 million registrations at the end of Q3 2025, an increase of 1.4 million or 0.8% from Q2 2025, and a year-over-year increase of 2.4 million or 1.4% [2] - The .com domain base totaled 159.4 million registrations, while the .net domain base totaled 12.5 million registrations as of September 30, 2025 [2] - New registrations for .com and .net domains totaled 10.6 million at the end of Q3 2025, compared to 9.3 million at the end of Q3 2024 [2] Group 2: Country-Code TLDs - Total country-code TLD (ccTLD) registrations reached 144.8 million at the end of Q3 2025, an increase of 1.4 million or 1.0% from Q2 2025, and a year-over-year increase of 4.8 million or 3.4% [3] - The top 10 ccTLDs as of September 30, 2025, included .cn, .de, .uk, .ru, .nl, .br, .au, .fr, .in, and .eu [3]