The DNIB Quarterly Report Q3 2025

Data and Analysis

DNIB Staff Download pdf

6 min. read | | Archives

Q3 2025

A more recent edition of the Domain Name Industry Brief Quarterly Report is available: Q1 2026

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The third quarter of 2025 closed with 378.5 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 6.8 million domain name registrations, or 1.8% compared to the second quarter of 2025. Domain name registrations increased by 16.2 million, or 4.5%, year over year.

The .com and .net TLDs had a combined total of 171.9 million domain name registrations in the domain name base at the end of third quarter of 2025, an increase of 1.4 million domain name registrations, or 0.8% compared to the second quarter of 2025. The .com and .net TLDs had a combined increase of 2.4 million domain name registrations, or 1.4%, year over year. As of Sept. 30, 2025, the .com domain name base totaled 159.4 million domain name registrations and the .net domain name base totaled 12.5 million domain name registrations.

New .com and .net domain name registrations totaled 10.6 million at the end of the third quarter of 2025, compared to 9.3 million domain name registrations at the end of the third quarter of 2024. The preliminary combined renewal percentage for the .com and .net TLDs is 75.3% for the third quarter of 2025.

Total country-code TLD (ccTLD) domain name registrations were 144.8 million at the end of the third quarter of 2025, an increase of 1.4 million domain name registrations, or 1.0% compared to the second quarter of 2025. ccTLDs increased by 4.8 million domain name registrations, or 3.4%, year over year. Available data is insufficient to estimate a combined quarterly renewal percentage across ccTLDs.

Total new generic TLD (ngTLD) domain name registrations were 42.9 million at the end of the third quarter of 2025, an increase of 3.4 million domain name registrations, or 8.5%, compared to the second quarter of 2025. ngTLDs increased by 7.4 million domain name registrations, or 21.0%, year over year. The most recent combined renewal percentage estimate for ngTLDs was 32.2%.

Total other legacy generic TLD (gTLD) domain name registrations, not including .com and .net, were 18.9 million at the end of the third quarter of 2025, an increase of 0.7 million domain name registrations, or 3.6%, compared to the second quarter of 2025. Other legacy gTLDs increased by 1.6 million domain name registrations, or 9.3%, year over year. The most recent combined renewal percentage estimate for legacy gTLDs was 82.5%.

Top 10 Largest TLDs by Number of Reported Domain Names

As of Sept. 30, 2025, the 10 largest TLDs by number of reported domain names were .com, .cn, .de, .net, .org, .uk, .ru, .nl, .xyz and .br. For the top 10 TLDs with available data, recent quarterly renewal percentage estimates ranged from 86.2% for .org to 19.5% for .xyz.

For each TLD, bar height indicates total registrations and circle diameter indicates quarterly renewal percentage estimate, when available. Source: ZookNIC, Q3 2025; Verisign, Q3 2025; Centralized Zone Data Service, Q3 2025. For further information on The Domain Name Industry Brief methodology, please see https://dnib.com/methodology.

Top 10 Largest ccTLDs by Number of Reported Domain Names

The top 10 ccTLDs, as of Sept. 30, 2025, were .cn, .de, .uk, .ru, .nl, .br, .au, .fr, .in and .eu. As of Sept. 30, 2025, there were 316 global ccTLD extensions delegated in the root zone, including internationalized domain names, with the top 10 ccTLDs comprising 57.6% of all ccTLD domain name registrations. For the top 10 ccTLDs with available data, recent quarterly renewal percentage estimates ranged from 82.6% for .fr to 72.3% for .ru.

Top 10 Largest gTLDs by Number of Reported Domain Names

The top 10 gTLDs, as of Sept. 30, 2025, were .com, .net, .org, .xyz, .top, .info, .shop, .online, .store and .site. As of Sept. 30, 2025, there were 1,265 extensions delegated in the root zone, including IDNs, with the top 10 gTLDs comprising 89.4% of all gTLD domain name registrations and 55.2% of all TLD registrations. New gTLDs collectively accounted for 11.3% of all TLD registrations as of Sept. 30, 2025. For the top 10 gTLDs, recent quarterly renewal percentage estimates ranged from 86.2% for .org to 12.2% for .shop.

For each TLD, bar height indicates total registrations and circle diameter indicates quarterly renewal percentage estimate. Source: ZookNIC, Q3 2025; Centralized Zone Data Service, Q3 2025. For further information on The Domain Name Industry Brief methodology, please see https://dnib.com/methodology.

About DNIB

DNIB.com, sponsored by Verisign, builds on Verisign’s 20-year history of regularly providing global domain name statistics and analytical research to the DNS industry, analysts, media and businesses. DNIB.com continues and expands on this foundation, publishing the Domain Name Industry Brief Quarterly Report as a timely review of domain name trends, key performance indicators and growth opportunities, and providing new, comprehensive, monthly data dashboards and thoughtful articles analyzing key policy, security and technology trends impacting the DNS industry. The latest quarterly report, articles, interactive dashboards and previous reports are all available at DNIB.com.

Learn More

To access archives for The Domain Name Industry Brief Quarterly Report, please go to https://dnib.com/listing/report. Email your comments or questions to [email protected].

Methodology

For information about the statistical methodology used in creating the Domain Name Industry Brief Quarterly Report and DNIB.com’s dashboards, visit https://dnib.com/methodology.