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Domain Name Statistics 2026: 401.6 Million Registered, and the Fastest-Growing TLDs Barely Renew

Domain name statistics from the registries themselves: 401.6 million domain names were registered across all top-level domains at the end of Q2 2026, up 8.1% in a year, according to Verisign. In ICANN’s registry reports, new gTLDs hold 22% of generic-TLD domains but supplied 54% of their growth from June 2025 to June 2026, much of it in TLDs where fewer than 1 in 5 names renew.

EntryAccountBalance
Q2 2026Domain names registered, all TLDs (Verisign, citing DNIB.com)401.6M
YoYGrowth in a year, all TLDs (Verisign, citing DNIB.com)+8.1%
gTLDsShare of gTLD growth from new gTLDs, Jun 2025 to Jun 2026 (22% of gTLD domains; ICANN)54%
Jun 2026Of the 75 largest gTLDs, how many renew under 20% of expiring names (ICANN)25
.comShare of expiring .com names renewed, Jul 2025 to Jun 2026 (ICANN)74.1%
.comLargest registrar accreditation’s share (GoDaddy.com, LLC)28.9%

The headline total comes from Verisign’s July 2026 announcement of DNIB.com figures. Everything else on this page is our own analysis of the monthly per-registrar transaction reports that every generic TLD registry files with ICANN: 1,117 gTLDs for Jun 2026, every June back to 2015, and a year of monthly history for the largest, to see which TLDs are growing, who renews, and which registrars hold the names.

How many domain names are registered?

401.6 million domain names were registered across all top-level domains at the end of Q2 2026, up 29.9 million or 8.1% in a year, Verisign said on July 23, 2026, citing the latest DNIB.com quarterly report. By its count, .com and .net hold 179.1 million (166.6 million .com and 12.5 million .net), country-code TLDs 148.6 million, and all other generic TLDs the remaining 73.9 million. Of the year’s 29.9 million increase, .com and .net added 8.6 million, ccTLDs 5.2 million, and all other gTLDs 16.1 million, 54% of the growth from 18% of the names. Credit: DNIB.com, a website sponsored by Verisign.

The rest of this report uses ICANN’s registry reports, which cover generic TLDs only (.com, .org, .xyz and the like), not country codes such as .cn, .de or .uk. They count names in every registry status, so they run slightly higher than Verisign’s figures: 170,253,825 .com names in Jun 2026 against Verisign’s 166.6 million.

Generic TLD domains, every June since 2015

.com .net Other legacy gTLDs New gTLDs
Bar labels: total gTLD domains and change on the previous June.

0M50M100M150M200M250MJune 2015, .com: 121,267,628 domainsJune 2015, .net: 15,413,391 domainsJune 2015, Other legacy gTLDs: 19,738,175 domainsJune 2015, New gTLDs: 6,299,057 domains163M2015June 2016, .com: 130,265,726 domainsJune 2016, .net: 16,130,302 domainsJune 2016, Other legacy gTLDs: 21,437,001 domainsJune 2016, New gTLDs: 23,026,258 domains191M+17.3%2016June 2017, .com: 132,070,515 domainsJune 2017, .net: 15,462,448 domainsJune 2017, Other legacy gTLDs: 21,099,153 domainsJune 2017, New gTLDs: 27,142,832 domains196M+2.6%2017June 2018, .com: 138,416,479 domainsJune 2018, .net: 14,579,735 domainsJune 2018, Other legacy gTLDs: 20,933,076 domainsJune 2018, New gTLDs: 24,263,277 domains198M+1.2%2018June 2019, .com: 145,758,764 domainsJune 2019, .net: 13,933,303 domainsJune 2019, Other legacy gTLDs: 19,275,035 domainsJune 2019, New gTLDs: 26,947,984 domains206M+3.9%2019June 2020, .com: 152,319,470 domainsJune 2020, .net: 13,700,522 domainsJune 2020, Other legacy gTLDs: 18,350,387 domainsJune 2020, New gTLDs: 35,354,303 domains220M+6.7%2020June 2021, .com: 160,417,153 domainsJune 2021, .net: 13,829,610 domainsJune 2021, Other legacy gTLDs: 17,879,284 domainsJune 2021, New gTLDs: 26,227,303 domains218M-0.6%2021June 2022, .com: 165,078,566 domainsJune 2022, .net: 13,544,511 domainsJune 2022, Other legacy gTLDs: 17,642,091 domainsJune 2022, New gTLDs: 30,944,952 domains227M+4.1%2022June 2023, .com: 165,219,210 domainsJune 2023, .net: 13,376,280 domainsJune 2023, Other legacy gTLDs: 17,994,573 domainsJune 2023, New gTLDs: 31,103,750 domains228M+0.2%2023June 2024, .com: 161,746,477 domainsJune 2024, .net: 13,267,193 domainsJune 2024, Other legacy gTLDs: 18,241,420 domainsJune 2024, New gTLDs: 39,058,962 domains232M+2.0%2024June 2025, .com: 161,564,688 domainsJune 2025, .net: 12,812,893 domainsJune 2025, Other legacy gTLDs: 19,429,710 domainsJune 2025, New gTLDs: 45,194,644 domains239M+2.9%2025June 2026, .com: 170,253,825 domainsJune 2026, .net: 12,745,973 domainsJune 2026, Other legacy gTLDs: 22,178,644 domainsJune 2026, New gTLDs: 58,806,420 domains264M+10.5%2026

gTLDs only. Sum of “total-domains” in the Totals row of each registry’s June report (ICANN Monthly Registry Reports). For consistency across years we include gTLDs with at least 100 names in June 2025 or June 2026 plus TLDs no longer in the root zone; the excluded small TLDs held 6,918 names in Jun 2026.

Is domain growth flat? It was. Generic TLD domains grew between 0.2% and 4.1% a year in each June-to-June period from 2021 to 2025, and in ICANN’s monthly .com reports the TLD shrank from 165,538,669 names in Apr 2023 to 159,938,837 in Dec 2024. Then gTLD domains rose 10.5% in the year to June 2026, the fastest annual growth since June 2016, to 264.0 million. The answer depends on where you look, and the next section shows where.

Where the growth came from

Share of gTLD domains, June 2026 Share of gTLD growth, June 2025 to June 2026 New gTLDs

New gTLDsNew gTLDs: 58,806,420 of 263,984,862 gTLD domains (22.3%)22.3% of gTLD domainsNew gTLDs: +13,611,776 of +24,982,927 (54.5%)54.5% of growth (+13.61M).com.com: 170,253,825 of 263,984,862 gTLD domains (64.5%)64.5% of gTLD domains.com: +8,689,137 of +24,982,927 (34.8%)34.8% of growth (+8.69M).net.net: 12,745,973 of 263,984,862 gTLD domains (4.8%)4.8% of gTLD domains.net: -66,920 of +24,982,927 (-0.3%)-0.3% of growth (-0.07M)Other legacy gTLDsOther legacy gTLDs: 22,178,644 of 263,984,862 gTLD domains (8.4%)8.4% of gTLD domainsOther legacy gTLDs: +2,748,934 of +24,982,927 (11.0%)11.0% of growth (+2.75M)

gTLDs only, from ICANN Monthly Registry Reports, same TLD set as the chart above.

Generic TLDs gained 25.0 million names from June 2025 to June 2026, and the gain split unevenly. New gTLDs, the extensions launched since ICANN’s 2012 program, hold 22.3% of gTLD domains but added 13.6 million, 54% of the growth, a 30.1% rise in a year. .com, with 64% of gTLD names, supplied 35% of the growth, while .net shrank.

The TLD league table

ICANN requires each gTLD registry to file a monthly report listing, for every registrar, the domains it sponsors, the names added, renewed and deleted. ICANN publishes them three months after the month ends. Of the 1,117 gTLDs that filed for Jun 2026, 569 had fewer than 1,000 names (most are single-company brand TLDs). The 40 largest, with a year of transactions:

# TLD Type Domains, Jun 2026 vs Jun 2025 Adds, 12 mo Renewals, 12 mo Deletes, 12 mo Renewal rate Adds / base
1 .com Legacy 170,253,825 +5.4% 42,966,551 98,331,928 34,359,932 74.1% 27%
2 .net Legacy 12,745,973 -0.5% 2,407,934 8,308,848 2,485,427 77.0% 19%
3 .org Legacy 12,604,255 +6.3% 2,832,382 7,901,185 2,094,713 79.0% 24%
4 .xyz New 9,153,912 +74.3% 7,344,217 748,958 3,428,098 17.9% 140%
5 .top New 7,433,320 +51.3% 5,427,498 577,884 3,244,108 15.1% 110%
6 .info Legacy 5,631,786 +30.0% 2,825,088 2,152,044 1,515,893 58.7% 65%
7 .shop New 4,716,233 +26.3% 3,737,353 396,315 2,752,780 12.6% 100%
8 .online New 3,963,748 +11.4% 2,624,402 811,123 2,303,877 26.0% 74%
9 .store New 2,335,965 +10.4% 1,660,913 329,507 1,500,499 18.0% 79%
10 .site New 2,103,869 +8.9% 1,536,115 237,744 1,413,790 14.4% 80%
11 .vip New 1,963,466 +33.5% 1,276,075 408,632 799,659 33.8% 87%
12 .app New 1,478,674 +72.9% 856,519 483,790 245,120 66.4% 100%
13 .sbs New 1,446,730 +35.5% 1,093,444 11,390 729,432 1.5% 102%
14 .biz Legacy 1,299,510 +2.5% 323,005 772,212 292,536 72.5% 25%
15 .pro Legacy 1,250,659 +27.0% 838,523 239,800 575,431 29.4% 85%
16 .bond New 1,196,241 +203.5% 1,267,296 4,915 472,223 1.0% 322%
17 .lol New 1,126,763 +107.3% 1,050,577 25,010 489,386 4.9% 193%
18 .click New 873,213 +26.4% 703,757 48,982 555,934 8.1% 102%
19 .dev New 712,600 +42.9% 292,285 345,796 82,424 80.8% 59%
20 .cfd New 688,049 +52.2% 550,404 6,842 333,501 2.0% 122%
21 .live New 671,869 +6.4% 416,674 148,595 375,935 28.3% 66%
22 .icu New 641,320 +19.9% 503,198 23,332 405,972 5.4% 94%
23 .space New 634,547 +34.6% 440,603 93,095 246,874 27.4% 93%
24 .asia Legacy 631,116 +72.7% 463,866 112,204 200,331 35.9% 127%
25 .cyou New 578,820 +88.8% 481,772 7,463 224,226 3.2% 157%
26 .tech New 570,630 +7.8% 286,119 189,389 250,038 43.1% 54%
27 .club New 569,871 -10.0% 250,899 213,707 314,201 40.5% 40%
28 .cloud New 551,867 +32.2% 302,417 189,116 168,775 52.8% 72%
29 .life New 474,179 +11.7% 291,176 116,121 241,625 32.5% 69%
30 .fun New 446,583 -20.1% 292,778 60,084 414,807 12.7% 52%
31 .world New 444,273 +23.8% 293,430 86,729 208,808 29.3% 82%
32 .digital New 418,641 +142.9% 324,173 61,483 84,873 42.0% 188%
33 .mobi Legacy 403,590 +51.9% 202,157 159,078 60,474 72.5% 76%
34 .blog New 389,860 +8.3% 194,372 145,348 165,321 46.8% 54%
35 .work New 363,488 +20.3% 195,689 104,549 130,489 44.5% 65%
36 .art New 315,128 +9.4% 137,948 132,110 120,024 52.4% 48%
37 .link New 310,085 +21.7% 190,281 91,505 133,361 40.7% 75%
38 .autos New 289,612 +109.0% 219,754 4,097 78,689 4.9% 159%
39 .website New 283,860 -0.8% 182,898 56,170 189,830 22.8% 64%
40 .one New 283,638 +2.3% 150,959 92,578 146,880 38.7% 54%

Shaded rows meet our promo-churn test (renewal rate under 20% and 12-month adds at least 75% of the June 2025 base). Adds and renewals sum the 1 to 10 year columns; deletes are deletions outside the add grace period; renewal rate is renewals divided by renewals plus those deletions, July 2025 to June 2026. Domains include every EPP status, so expired names in grace periods are counted. Source: ICANN Monthly Registry Reports.

The 12 largest new gTLDs since 2016

.xyz: 9,153,912 domains in Jun 2026; peak 9,153,912 in Jun 2026; first report in our window Jan 201620162026.xyz9.15M
.top: 7,433,320 domains in Jun 2026; peak 7,433,320 in Jun 2026; first report in our window Jan 201620162026.top7.43M
.shop: 4,716,233 domains in Jun 2026; peak 4,716,233 in Jun 2026; first report in our window May 201620162026.shop4.72M
.online: 3,963,748 domains in Jun 2026; peak 3,963,748 in Jun 2026; first report in our window Jan 201620162026.online3.96M
.store: 2,335,965 domains in Jun 2026; peak 2,377,981 in Feb 2026; first report in our window Feb 201620162026.store2.34M
.site: 2,103,869 domains in Jun 2026; peak 2,104,647 in Dec 2025; first report in our window Jan 201620162026.site2.10M
.vip: 1,963,466 domains in Jun 2026; peak 1,963,466 in Jun 2026; first report in our window Jan 201620162026.vip1.96M
.app: 1,478,674 domains in Jun 2026; peak 1,478,674 in Jun 2026; first report in our window Jan 201620162026.app1.48M
.sbs: 1,446,730 domains in Jun 2026; peak 1,509,649 in May 2026; first report in our window Jan 201620162026.sbs1.45M
.bond: 1,196,241 domains in Jun 2026; peak 1,196,241 in Jun 2026; first report in our window Jan 201620162026.bond1.20M
.lol: 1,126,763 domains in Jun 2026; peak 1,126,763 in Jun 2026; first report in our window Jan 201620162026.lol1.13M
.click: 873,213 domains in Jun 2026; peak 1,110,125 in Oct 2025; first report in our window Jan 201620162026.click0.87M

Domains under management at the end of each month, January 2016 to Jun 2026, from each registry’s ICANN report. Each panel has its own scale. Red panels meet the promo-churn test.

.xyz is the largest new gTLD with 9,153,912 names, up 74% in a year, and .top is second with 7,433,320. Growth in these TLDs has not been steady. 6 of the 12 lost at least 40% of their names from a previous peak at some point since 2016: .xyz fell 70% from Dec 2016 to Aug 2018; .top fell 73% from Dec 2016 to May 2021; .site fell 43% from Apr 2020 to May 2022; .vip fell 57% from Feb 2020 to Jul 2022; .bond fell 79% from Dec 2024 to Sep 2025; .click fell 86% from Sep 2016 to Sep 2020. We set aside drops that the reports’ own deletion counts cannot explain, which look like changes in how a registry counted names: .app lost 697,507 names in Aug 2022 while reporting 23,264 deletions; .click lost 341,977 names in Nov 2025 while reporting 36,512 deletions; and smaller unexplained drops in .lol. .bond is the clearest recent cycle: after its fall to 187,565 names in Sep 2025 it climbed to 1,196,241 by Jun 2026, while renewing just 4,915 names in 12 months.

Adds, deletes, and renewals: the churn panel

Legacy gTLD New gTLD Promo churn. Bubble area scales with domains under management.

PROMO CHURN: renewals under 20%, adds 75%+ of base10%25%50%100%200%500%1000%3000%0%20%40%60%80%100%New registrations in 12 months as % of the June 2025 base (log scale)Renewal rate.com: 170,253,825 domains, renewal rate 74.1%, 12-month adds 42,966,551 (27% of June 2025 base).com.net: 12,745,973 domains, renewal rate 77.0%, 12-month adds 2,407,934 (19% of June 2025 base).net.org: 12,604,255 domains, renewal rate 79.0%, 12-month adds 2,832,382 (24% of June 2025 base).org.xyz: 9,153,912 domains, renewal rate 17.9%, 12-month adds 7,344,217 (140% of June 2025 base).xyz.top: 7,433,320 domains, renewal rate 15.1%, 12-month adds 5,427,498 (110% of June 2025 base).top.info: 5,631,786 domains, renewal rate 58.7%, 12-month adds 2,825,088 (65% of June 2025 base).info.shop: 4,716,233 domains, renewal rate 12.6%, 12-month adds 3,737,353 (100% of June 2025 base).shop.online: 3,963,748 domains, renewal rate 26.0%, 12-month adds 2,624,402 (74% of June 2025 base).online.store: 2,335,965 domains, renewal rate 18.0%, 12-month adds 1,660,913 (79% of June 2025 base).store.site: 2,103,869 domains, renewal rate 14.4%, 12-month adds 1,536,115 (80% of June 2025 base).site.vip: 1,963,466 domains, renewal rate 33.8%, 12-month adds 1,276,075 (87% of June 2025 base).vip.app: 1,478,674 domains, renewal rate 66.4%, 12-month adds 856,519 (100% of June 2025 base).app.sbs: 1,446,730 domains, renewal rate 1.5%, 12-month adds 1,093,444 (102% of June 2025 base).sbs.biz: 1,299,510 domains, renewal rate 72.5%, 12-month adds 323,005 (25% of June 2025 base).biz.pro: 1,250,659 domains, renewal rate 29.4%, 12-month adds 838,523 (85% of June 2025 base).pro.bond: 1,196,241 domains, renewal rate 1.0%, 12-month adds 1,267,296 (322% of June 2025 base).bond.lol: 1,126,763 domains, renewal rate 4.9%, 12-month adds 1,050,577 (193% of June 2025 base).lol.click: 873,213 domains, renewal rate 8.1%, 12-month adds 703,757 (102% of June 2025 base).click.dev: 712,600 domains, renewal rate 80.8%, 12-month adds 292,285 (59% of June 2025 base).dev.cfd: 688,049 domains, renewal rate 2.0%, 12-month adds 550,404 (122% of June 2025 base).cfd.live: 671,869 domains, renewal rate 28.3%, 12-month adds 416,674 (66% of June 2025 base).live.icu: 641,320 domains, renewal rate 5.4%, 12-month adds 503,198 (94% of June 2025 base).icu.space: 634,547 domains, renewal rate 27.4%, 12-month adds 440,603 (93% of June 2025 base).space.asia: 631,116 domains, renewal rate 35.9%, 12-month adds 463,866 (127% of June 2025 base).asia.cyou: 578,820 domains, renewal rate 3.2%, 12-month adds 481,772 (157% of June 2025 base).cyou.tech: 570,630 domains, renewal rate 43.1%, 12-month adds 286,119 (54% of June 2025 base).tech.club: 569,871 domains, renewal rate 40.5%, 12-month adds 250,899 (40% of June 2025 base).club.cloud: 551,867 domains, renewal rate 52.8%, 12-month adds 302,417 (72% of June 2025 base).cloud.life: 474,179 domains, renewal rate 32.5%, 12-month adds 291,176 (69% of June 2025 base).life.fun: 446,583 domains, renewal rate 12.7%, 12-month adds 292,778 (52% of June 2025 base).fun.world: 444,273 domains, renewal rate 29.3%, 12-month adds 293,430 (82% of June 2025 base).world.digital: 418,641 domains, renewal rate 42.0%, 12-month adds 324,173 (188% of June 2025 base).digital.mobi: 403,590 domains, renewal rate 72.5%, 12-month adds 202,157 (76% of June 2025 base).mobi.blog: 389,860 domains, renewal rate 46.8%, 12-month adds 194,372 (54% of June 2025 base).blog.work: 363,488 domains, renewal rate 44.5%, 12-month adds 195,689 (65% of June 2025 base).work.art: 315,128 domains, renewal rate 52.4%, 12-month adds 137,948 (48% of June 2025 base).art.link: 310,085 domains, renewal rate 40.7%, 12-month adds 190,281 (75% of June 2025 base).link.autos: 289,612 domains, renewal rate 4.9%, 12-month adds 219,754 (159% of June 2025 base).autos.website: 283,860 domains, renewal rate 22.8%, 12-month adds 182,898 (64% of June 2025 base).website.one: 283,638 domains, renewal rate 38.7%, 12-month adds 150,959 (54% of June 2025 base).one

The 40 largest gTLDs with complete reports for July 2025 to June 2026. Hover a bubble for its numbers.

Which TLDs grow through cheap promotions? The registry reports do not carry prices, so we cannot see the discount itself. What they show is the footprint a first-year promotion leaves: very high new registrations relative to the existing base, followed by very low renewals when the cheap year ends. 21 of the 75 largest gTLDs fit that pattern: .xyz, .top, .shop, .store, .site, .sbs, .bond, .lol, .click, .cfd, .icu, .cyou, .autos, .lat, .skin, .makeup, .pics, .rest, .beauty, .qpon, .mom.

25 of the 75 largest gTLDs renewed fewer than 20% of their expiring names from July 2025 to June 2026; together they renewed 12.8%. Those 25 TLDs hold 59% of all new-gTLD domains and accounted for 10.2 million of the 13.6 million net increase in new gTLDs over the year (75%). The lowest renewal rates belong to .bond (1.0%), .sbs (1.5%), .qpon (1.9%).

For comparison, 74.1% of expiring .com names were renewed over the same months, and .xyz renewed 17.9% while adding 7,344,217 names, 140% of its June 2025 base. Across the 65 largest new gTLDs with a full year of reports, the renewal rate was 22.7%.

How concentrated is the registrar market?

Share of .com domains, Jun 2026 Share of new .com registrations, Jul 2025 to Jun 2026

GoDaddy.com, LLCGoDaddy.com, LLC (IANA 146): 49,152,691 .com domains, 28.9%17.6% of new .com registrations, Jul 2025 to Jun 202628.9% / 17.6%NameCheap, Inc.NameCheap, Inc. (IANA 1068): 11,865,969 .com domains, 7.0%11.4% of new .com registrations, Jul 2025 to Jun 20267.0% / 11.4%Tucows Domains Inc.Tucows Domains Inc. (IANA 69): 6,563,298 .com domains, 3.9%3.3% of new .com registrations, Jul 2025 to Jun 20263.9% / 3.3%Squarespace Domains II LLCSquarespace Domains II LLC (IANA 895): 6,035,945 .com domains, 3.5%2.7% of new .com registrations, Jul 2025 to Jun 20263.5% / 2.7%Gname.com Pte. Ltd.Gname.com Pte. Ltd. (IANA 1923): 4,382,843 .com domains, 2.6%1.9% of new .com registrations, Jul 2025 to Jun 20262.6% / 1.9%HOSTINGER operations, UABHOSTINGER operations, UAB (IANA 1636): 4,088,971 .com domains, 2.4%5.2% of new .com registrations, Jul 2025 to Jun 20262.4% / 5.2%IONOS SEIONOS SE (IANA 83): 4,005,965 .com domains, 2.4%2.0% of new .com registrations, Jul 2025 to Jun 20262.4% / 2.0%Cloudflare, Inc.Cloudflare, Inc. (IANA 1910): 3,525,525 .com domains, 2.1%3.7% of new .com registrations, Jul 2025 to Jun 20262.1% / 3.7%Squarespace Domains LLCSquarespace Domains LLC (IANA 3827): 3,520,187 .com domains, 2.1%2.9% of new .com registrations, Jul 2025 to Jun 20262.1% / 2.9%Wix.com Ltd.Wix.com Ltd. (IANA 3817): 3,406,398 .com domains, 2.0%2.0% of new .com registrations, Jul 2025 to Jun 20262.0% / 2.0%

GoDaddy.com, LLC sponsors 49,152,691 .com names, 28.9% of the TLD, but won only 17.6% of new .com registrations in the past year. Among the 20 largest accreditations, 6 took at least 1.5 times as large a share of new registrations as of the existing base: NameCheap, Inc. (11.4% of new versus 7.0% of all); HOSTINGER operations, UAB (5.2% of new versus 2.4% of all); Cloudflare, Inc. (3.7% of new versus 2.1% of all); Dynadot Inc (3.2% of new versus 1.8% of all); NameSilo, LLC (1.9% of new versus 1.3% of all); Spaceship, Inc. (2.5% of new versus 1.2% of all). The 10 largest accreditations hold 56.7% of .com, down from 64.5% in June 2016.

# Registrar (accreditation) IANA ID .com domains Share Share of new, 12 mo
1 GoDaddy.com, LLC 146 49,152,691 28.9% 17.6%
2 NameCheap, Inc. 1068 11,865,969 7.0% 11.4%
3 Tucows Domains Inc. 69 6,563,298 3.9% 3.3%
4 Squarespace Domains II LLC 895 6,035,945 3.5% 2.7%
5 Gname.com Pte. Ltd. 1923 4,382,843 2.6% 1.9%
6 HOSTINGER operations, UAB 1636 4,088,971 2.4% 5.2%
7 IONOS SE 83 4,005,965 2.4% 2.0%
8 Cloudflare, Inc. 1910 3,525,525 2.1% 3.7%
9 Squarespace Domains LLC 3827 3,520,187 2.1% 2.9%
10 Wix.com Ltd. 3817 3,406,398 2.0% 2.0%
11 Dynadot Inc 472 3,147,807 1.8% 3.2%
12 Network Solutions, LLC 2 3,132,002 1.8% 0.9%
13 TurnCommerce, Inc. DBA NameBright.com 1441 3,017,836 1.8% 0.0%
14 PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com 303 2,306,642 1.4% 0.9%
15 GMO Internet Group, Inc. d/b/a Onamae.com 49 2,282,933 1.3% 1.5%

Concentration over time

HHI of .com registrar accreditations, each June. Dashed line: 1,000.

9001,0001,1001,2001,300June 2016: HHI 1159, top accreditation 31.5%, top 10 64.5%June 2017: HHI 1202, top accreditation 32.5%, top 10 63.3%June 2018: HHI 1227, top accreditation 33.2%, top 10 62.0%June 2019: HHI 1205, top accreditation 32.9%, top 10 61.9%June 2020: HHI 1194, top accreditation 32.8%, top 10 60.9%June 2021: HHI 1181, top accreditation 32.5%, top 10 61.2%June 2022: HHI 1114, top accreditation 31.6%, top 10 58.2%June 2023: HHI 1128, top accreditation 31.7%, top 10 58.7%June 2024: HHI 1122, top accreditation 31.5%, top 10 59.2%June 2025: HHI 1061, top accreditation 30.5%, top 10 57.5%June 2026: HHI 972, top accreditation 28.9%, top 10 56.7%201620182020202220242026972

June Accreditations Largest Top 10 HHI
2016 2,042 31.5% 64.5% 1,159
2017 2,842 32.5% 63.3% 1,202
2018 2,355 33.2% 62.0% 1,227
2019 2,347 32.9% 61.9% 1,205
2020 2,336 32.8% 60.9% 1,194
2021 2,343 32.5% 61.2% 1,181
2022 2,422 31.6% 58.2% 1,114
2023 2,541 31.7% 58.7% 1,128
2024 2,695 31.5% 59.2% 1,122
2025 2,903 30.5% 57.5% 1,061
2026 2,903 28.9% 56.7% 972

The Herfindahl-Hirschman Index across all 2,903 accreditations with at least one .com name is 972, down from 1,159 in 2016. The 2023 Merger Guidelines from the Justice Department and FTC call a market with an HHI above 1,800 highly concentrated, and note that earlier guidelines treated anything above 1,000 as concentrated. Measured by accreditation, the .com registrar market fell below 1,000 for the first time in our series. That understates true concentration, because ICANN reports each accreditation separately and one company can own several; the two Squarespace accreditations alone hold 5.6%.

Most accreditations are tiny. 1,676 of the 2,903 accreditations hold fewer than 1,000 .com names each, yet in Jun 2026 they sent 64% of the 512,072,320 create commands .com received. That pattern fits accreditations used to race for names the moment they are deleted. Over the year, .com saw 6.5 billion attempted creates for 43.0 million successful new registrations, about 150 attempts per name.

What this means for MSPs

Expect lookalike domains in the high-churn TLDs. The promo-churn TLDs added millions of names this year and let most of them lapse. Names registered in bulk and dropped within a year suit short-lived abuse, the raw material of the campaigns in our phishing statistics report. Watch for client brand names under .xyz, .top, .shop, .online and the other TLDs flagged above, not just .com typos, and treat first-seen domains in those TLDs with extra suspicion at the mail gateway and DNS filter.

Treat renewal as a security control. 94,137 .com names were deleted on an average day over the past year, and the create commands aimed at .com ran to 150 per successful registration. A client domain that lapses does not sit idle: it is raced for the moment it is released, and a new owner can receive the email still addressed to it. Keep client domains on auto-renew with a payment card that does not expire unnoticed, consolidate them at one registrar account the MSP can see, and put expiry dates in the same tracker as certificate renewals.

Register the defensive names that matter, not every TLD. With 1,117 gTLDs reporting, blanket defensive registration is not realistic. The registry data narrows it: the names worth holding are the client’s .com and country code, plus the high-volume TLDs where registrations churn fastest. The same logic applies to package typosquats in our malicious npm packages analysis: the attack surface is wherever registration is easy and unreviewed.

Know where client domains are held. Ten accreditations hold 56.7% of .com, so most client domains sit at a handful of registrars. Enable registrar lock and multi-factor authentication there; a compromised registrar login can redirect DNS and mail for every domain in the account. For a wider set of sourced numbers, see our cybersecurity statistics fact sheet.

Frequently asked questions

How many domain names are registered?

401.6 million across all top-level domains at the end of Q2 2026, Verisign reported on July 23, 2026, citing DNIB.com, which is 29.9 million (8.1%) more than a year earlier. Country-code TLDs account for 148.6 million and .com and .net for 179.1 million. ICANN’s registry reports count 263,991,780 names across 1,117 generic TLDs in Jun 2026, in every status.

How many .com domains are there?

Verisign put the .com base at 166.6 million at the end of Q2 2026. ICANN’s registry report for Jun 2026 counts 170,253,825 .com names, a slightly higher figure because it includes names in every status, such as expired names still in grace periods. In those reports .com shrank from 165,538,669 in Apr 2023 to 159,938,837 in Dec 2024 before its latest rise.

What are the most popular domain extensions?

Among generic TLDs in ICANN’s Jun 2026 reports, the 10 largest were .com, .net, .org, .xyz, .top, .info, .shop, .online, .store, and .site. .xyz is the largest new gTLD with 9,153,912 names, up 74% in a year. Verisign lists the top 10 country codes as .cn, .de, .uk, .ru, .nl, .br, .fr, .au, .in, and .eu.

How many domains are registered every day?

In Jun 2026, gTLD registries reported 8,923,610 new registrations that survived the five-day add grace period, about 297,454 a day, before counting country codes. .com alone averaged 117,717 new names and 94,137 deletions a day from July 2025 to June 2026.

What is the renewal rate for domain names?

From July 2025 to June 2026, 74.1% of expiring .com names were renewed rather than deleted, by our calculation from ICANN reports. Across the 65 largest new gTLDs the rate was 22.7%, and 25 of the 75 largest gTLDs renewed fewer than 20% of their expiring names.

Which registrar has the most domain names?

GoDaddy.com, LLC holds 49,152,691 .com names, 28.9% of the TLD, in ICANN’s Jun 2026 report. The 10 largest accreditations hold 56.7%, and the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index across all 2,903 accreditations is 972, down from 1,159 in 2016.

Download the data. gtld-registry-ledger-2026.csv (CSV). Licensed under CC BY 4.0: free to reuse with attribution to The Uptime Report.

Methodology

Sources. (1) Verisign press release, July 23, 2026, reporting DNIB.com figures for Q2 2026 (all-TLD total, .com, .net and ccTLD counts only). (2) ICANN Monthly Registry Reports, per-registrar transactions files (gTLD-transactions-yyyymm.csv) for 1,117 gTLDs for Jun 2026 and Jun 2025, every June from 2015 for gTLDs with at least 100 names, every month from Jul 2025 to Jun 2026 for the 75 largest gTLDs, every month from January 2016 for the 12 largest new gTLDs, and every month for .com. Retrieved October 2026; Jun 2026 was the newest month ICANN had posted.

Definitions. Field meanings follow Specification 3 of ICANN’s base registry agreement. Domains are “total-domains”, names under sponsorship in any EPP status except pendingCreate. Adds are the net-adds columns (registrations not deleted within the add grace period), renewals the net-renews columns (renewals, automatic or by command, not reversed in the grace period), and deletes “deleted-domains-nograce”. Renewal rate is renewals divided by renewals plus deletes over 12 months; it approximates the share of names reaching expiry that were kept. Turnover is 12-month adds divided by the June 2025 base. Promo churn is renewal rate under 20% with turnover of at least 75%. Legacy gTLDs are those delegated before the 2012 New gTLD Program; all others are new gTLDs. Registrar shares are per IANA accreditation, not per corporate group. HHI is the sum of squared shares times 10,000.

Coverage and limits. ICANN reports cover gTLDs only, not country codes, so every chart and table on this page excludes .cn, .de, .uk and other ccTLDs; only the all-TLD headline figures from Verisign include them. ICANN’s counts run higher than Verisign’s (for example 170.3 million .com names versus 166.6 million) because they include expired names still in grace periods. The June history includes TLDs still in the root zone with at least 100 names in 2025 or 2026 plus TLDs listed on ICANN’s report page that have since left the root zone; smaller current TLDs are excluded from every year. Registry reports contain no prices: the promo-churn test identifies a pattern consistent with discounted first-year pricing, not the discount itself. Transactions are reported in the month a grace period ends, so monthly figures lag the underlying events by days to weeks.

Licensing. ICANN publishes registry reports publicly under its registry agreements; we attribute ICANN as the source, and the CC BY download contains only our ICANN-derived table. The few all-TLD figures are cited from Verisign’s public press release, which reports DNIB.com data. Credit: DNIB.com, a website sponsored by Verisign.

Not advice. This is an analysis of public registry data, not legal or security advice for any organization.

Cite as:The Uptime Report. "Domain Name Statistics 2026: 401.6 Million Registered, and the Fastest-Growing TLDs Barely Renew." October 2026. https://theuptimereport.com/domain-name-statistics/

References

  1. Verisign, “DNIB.com Reports Internet Has 401.6 Million Domain Name Registrations at the End of the Second Quarter of 2026,” press release, July 23, 2026. Credit: DNIB.com, a website sponsored by Verisign. Accessed October 2026.
  2. Verisign Blog, “Domain Name Industry Brief Quarterly Report: DNIB.com Announces 401.6 Million Domain Name Registrations in the Second Quarter of 2026,” July 23, 2026. Accessed October 2026.
  3. ICANN, Monthly Registry Reports, per-registrar transactions files, for example xyz-transactions-202606-en.csv and com-transactions-202606-en.csv. Accessed October 2026.
  4. ICANN, Base gTLD Registry Agreement (January 2024), Specification 3: Format and Content for Registry Operator Monthly Reporting. Accessed October 2026.
  5. IANA, list of top-level domains in the root zone. Accessed October 2026.
  6. U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission, Merger Guidelines (2023), Guideline 1 and note 15. Accessed October 2026.

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