RESTON, Va., June 08, 2023–(BUSINESS WIRE)–VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), a global provider of domain name registry services and Internet infrastructure, today announced that the first quarter of 2023 closed with 354.0 million Domain name registrations in all domains (TLDs), an increase of 3.5 million domain name registrations, or 1.0%, compared to the fourth quarter of 2022.1.2 Domain name registrations also increased by 3.5 million, or 1.0%, year over year.1.2
The .com and .net TLDs had a combined total of 174.8 million domain name registrations in the domain name base3 as of the end of the first quarter of 2023, an increase of 1.0 million domain name registrations, or 0.6%, compared to the fourth quarter of 2022. The .com and .net TLDs experienced a combined increase of 0 .1 million domain name registrations, or 0.1%, year over year. As of March 31, 2023, the .com domain name base totaled 161.6 million domain name registrations and the .net domain name base totaled 13.2 million domain name registrations.
New .com and .net domain name registrations totaled 10.3 million at the end of Q1 2023, compared to 10.2 million domain name registrations at the end of Q1 2022.
Total registrations of country-code TLD domain names (ccTLDs) were 135.7 million at the end of the first quarter of 2023, an increase of 2.6 million domain name registrations, or 2.0%, compared to the fourth quarter of 2022.1.2 ccTLDs increased by 2.3 million domain name registrations, or 1.7%, year over year. The top 10 ccTLDs, as of March 31, 2023, were .cn, .de, .uk, .nl, .ru, .br, .au, .fr, .eu and .it.1.2 This number of Brief description of the domain name industry includes a correction to the March 2023 issue, which incorrectly reported the number of domain name registrations in the ccTLD .eu.2 This was the result of a one-off error in the .eu domain name registration data, provided by ZookNIC, which has since been fixed.
Verisign publishes The domain name industry summary to provide Internet users worldwide with research and statistical and analytical data on the domain name industry. The domain name industry summary for Q1 2023, as well as previous briefs, can be obtained at Verisign.com/DNIB.
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Verisign, a global provider of domain name registration services and Internet infrastructure, enables Internet browsing for many of the world’s most recognized domain names. Verisign enables the security, stability, and resiliency of key Internet infrastructure and services, including providing root zone maintainer services, managing two of 13 global Internet root servers, and providing authoritative logging and resolution services for the top-level domains .com and .net domains, which support most of the global e-commerce. To learn more about what it means to be Powered by Verisign, visit Verisign.com.
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1 All figures exclude domain names in the ccTLDs .tk, .cf, .ga, .gq and .ml. Quarterly and year-over-year trends were calculated against historical data which was also adjusted to exclude these five ccTLDs. For further information, consult the Editor’s Note contained in vol. 19, number 1 of The domain name industry summary.
2 The generic TLD, ngTLD and ccTLD data referenced in the brief: (i) include internationalized ccTLD domain names, (ii) are an estimate at the time the brief was developed, and (iii) are subject to change as they are received more complete data. Some numbers in the brief may reflect standard rounding.
3 The domain name base is the active zone plus the number of domain names that are registered but not configured for use in their respective TLD zone file plus the number of domain names that are in a client suspended state or of the server. The .com and .net domain name registration figures are as reported in Verisign’s most recent SEC filings.
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