VeriSign has announced that it ended the fourth quarter of 2022 with 350.4 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), which is 0.5 million domain name registrations, or 0.1 per cent, more than in the third quarter of 2022. On an annual basis, domain name registrations increased by 8.7 million, or 2.6 per cent.

The combined domain name registration base for the .com and .net TLDs stood at 173.8 million domain name registrations at the end of the fourth quarter of 2022, which is 0.4 million domain name registrations, or 0.2 per cent, fewer than in the third quarter of 2022. Taken together, the .com and .net TLDs saw an increase of 0.3 million domain name registrations, or 0.2 per cent, compared with the previous year. On 31 December 2022, the .com domain name base totalled 160.5 million registrations, whilst the .net domain name base totalled 13.2 million registrations.

The number of new .com and .net domain name registrations stood at 9.7 million at the end of the fourth quarter of 2022, compared with 10.6 million domain name registrations in the fourth quarter of 2021.

The total number of country code top-level domain (ccTLD) registrations stood at 133.1 million at the end of the fourth quarter of 2022, which is 0.7 million registrations, or 0.5 per cent, more than in the third quarter of 2022.

ccTLDs grew by 5.7 million domain name registrations, representing a 4.5 per cent increase compared with the previous year. The 10 most popular ccTLDs as at 31 December 2022 were: .cn, .de, .uk, .nl, .ru, .br, .au, .eu, .fr and .it.

The number of new generic top-level domain (ngTLD) registrations stood at 27.4 million at the end of the fourth quarter of 2022, which is 0.1 million domain name registrations, or 0.5 per cent, more than in the third quarter of 2022. Compared with the third quarter of 2022, ngTLDs grew by 2.7 million domain name registrations, or 11.1 per cent.

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