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VeriSign, Inc., a global provider of critical internet infrastructure and domain name registration services, announced today that, according to the latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief report from DNIB.com, the first quarter of 2025 ended with 368 million domain name registrations. This represents an increase of 4.2 million domain name registrations, or 1.1 per cent, compared with the fourth quarter of 2024. The number of domain name registrations also rose year-on-year, by 6.1 million, or 1.7 per cent.
The .com and .net TLDs collectively had 169.8 million domain name registrations in the domain name database at the end of the first quarter of 2025, which is 0.8 million domain name registrations, or 0.5 per cent, more than in the fourth quarter of 2024. The .com and .net TLDs combined saw a decrease of 2.6 million domain name registrations, or 1.5 per cent, compared with the previous year. On 31 March 2025, there were a total of 157.2 million domain name registrations in the .com domain name database and a total of 12.6 million domain name registrations in the .net domain name database. The number of new .com and .net domain name registrations stood at 10.1 million at the end of the first quarter of 2025, compared with 9.5 million domain names registered at the end of the first quarter of 2024.
The number of country code TLD (ccTLD) domain name registrations stood at 142.9 million at the end of the first quarter of 2025, which is 2.1 million domain name registrations, or 1.5 per cent, more than in the fourth quarter of 2024. The number of ccTLDs increased by 3.4 million domain name registrations, or 2.4 per cent, compared with the previous year. The available data is insufficient to estimate the aggregate quarterly renewal rate for ccTLDs. On 31 March 2025, the 10 most popular ccTLDs were: .cn, .de, .uk, .ru, .nl, .br, .au, .fr, .in and .eu.