VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), a global provider of critical internet infrastructure and domain name registry services, today announced that, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief Quarterly Report from DNIB.com, the first quarter of 2025 closed with 368.4 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 4.2 million domain name registrations, or 1.1%, compared to the fourth quarter of 2024. Domain name registrations also increased by 6.1 million, or 1.7%, year over year.
The .com and .net TLDs had a combined total of 169.8 million domain name registrations in the domain name base at the end of the first quarter of 2025, an increase of 0.8 million domain name registrations, or 0.5% compared to the fourth quarter of 2024. The .com and .net TLDs had a combined decrease of 2.6 million domain name registrations, or 1.5%, year over year. As of March 31, 2025, the .com domain name base totaled 157.2 million domain name registrations and the .net domain name base totaled 12.6 million domain name registrations. New .com and .net domain name registrations totaled 10.1 million at the end of the first quarter of 2025, compared to 9.5 million domain name registrations at the end of the first quarter of 2024.
Total country-code TLD (ccTLD) domain name registrations were 142.9 million at the end of the first quarter of 2025, an increase of 2.1 million domain name registrations, or 1.5% compared to the fourth quarter of 2024. ccTLDs increased by 3.4 million domain name registrations, or 2.4%, year over year. Available data is insufficient to estimate a combined quarterly renewal percentage across ccTLDs. The top 10 ccTLDs, as of March 31, 2025, were .cn, .de, .uk, .ru, .nl, .br, .au, .fr, .in and .eu.
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