Verisign reports internet has 354 million domains at the end of Q1 2023

The .com and .net TLDs had a combined total of 174.8 million domain name registrations in the domain name base³ at the end of the first quarter of 2023, an increase of 1.0 million domain name registrations, or 0.6%, compared to the fourth quarter of 2022. The .com and .net TLDs had a combined increase of 0.1 million domain name registrations, or 0.1%, year over year. As of March 31, 2023, the .com domain name base totaled 161.6 million domain name registrations, and the .net domain name base totaled 13.2 million domain name registrations.

New .com and .net domain name registrations totaled 10.3 million at the end of the first quarter of 2023, compared to 10.2 million domain name registrations at the end of the first quarter of 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 fourth quarter of 2022.^1,2 ccTLDs increased by 2.3 million domain name registrations, or 1.7%, year over year. The top 10 ccTLDs, as of March 31, 2023, were .cn, .de, .uk, .nl, .ru, .br, .au, .fr, .eu, and .it.^1,2

Total new generic TLD (ngTLD) domain name registrations were 27.3 million at the end of the first quarter of 2023, a decrease of 0.2 million domain name registrations, or 0.6%, compared to the fourth quarter of 2022. ngTLDs increased by 0.9 million domain name registrations, or 3.6%, year over year.

This issue of the Domain Name Industry Brief includes a correction to the March 2023 issue, which incorrectly reported the number of domain name registrations in the .eu ccTLD.² This was the result of a one-time error in the .eu domain name registration data, provided by ZookNIC, which has since been resolved.