Verisign released their Q4 2025 Domain Name Industry Brief.
The fourth quarter of 2025 closed with 386.9 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 8.4 million domain name registrations, or 2.2% compared to the third quarter of 2025. Domain name registrations increased by 22.7 million, or 6.2%, year over year.
The .com and .net TLDs had a combined total of 173.5 million domain name registrations in the domain name base at the end of fourth quarter of 2025, an increase of 1.6 million domain name registrations, or 0.9% compared to the third quarter of 2025. The .com and .net TLDs had a combined increase of 4.5 million domain name registrations, or 2.6%, year over year.
Full report here