{"name":"Registered domain names worldwide","schema":"customdomain.domain-counter/1","generated":"2026-10-30","unit":"domain name registrations across all top-level domains, as Verisign's Domain Name Industry Brief counts them, unless a point's scope says otherwise","latest":{"v":1,"quarter":"Q3 2026","as_of":"2026-09-30","total":411600000,"t0":"2026-10-01T00:00:00Z","rate_per_second":1.046423,"tick_until":"2027-04-01T00:00:00Z","published":"2026-10-22","source_url":"https://www.dnib.com/media/downloads/reports/domain-name-report-Q32026.pdf","window":"Q3 2025 to Q3 2026"},"model":{"method":"estimate(t) = total + rate_per_second x (t - t0), floored to a whole number; after tick_until the published total is shown without ticking","anchor":{"quarter":"Q3 2026","as_of":"2026-09-30","t0":"2026-10-01T00:00:00Z","total":411600000,"published":"2026-10-22","source_url":"https://www.dnib.com/media/downloads/reports/domain-name-report-Q32026.pdf"},"rate":{"per_second":1.046423,"per_day":90411,"per_quarter_92_days":8317807,"basis":"Verisign's stated year-over-year change for Q3 2026: 33.0 million over 365 days (2025-09-30 to 2026-09-30)","window":"Q3 2025 to Q3 2026"},"tick_until":"2027-04-01T00:00:00Z","uncertainty":{"backtest":{"quarters":25,"mean_abs_error_million":2.45,"max_abs_error_million":7.12,"bias_million":-0.64,"since_2024_bias_million":-2.09,"window":"Q1 2018 to Q3 2026; skips a prediction whose four quarter window holds a method break"},"backtest_all_quarters":{"quarters":33,"mean_abs_error_million":2.54,"max_abs_error_million":8.41,"bias_million":-0.42,"since_2024_bias_million":-1.57,"window":"Q1 2018 to Q3 2026, break quarters skipped"},"backtest_two_quarters":{"quarters":31,"mean_abs_error_million":4.43,"max_abs_error_million":12.62,"bias_million":-0.76,"since_2024_bias_million":-3.26,"window":"Q1 2018 to Q3 2026, break quarters skipped, projected 182 or 183 days"},"note":"Between reports the number is an estimate. Projected one quarter ahead with the trailing four quarter rate, this method missed the next published total by 2.45 million on average (about 0.7 percent) and by at most 7.1 million (about 2 percent) over 25 quarters. Counting the quarters right after a method change too, it missed by 2.54 million on average and at most 8.4 million over 33. Two quarters ahead, which a missed refresh reaches before ticking stops, it missed by 4.4 million on average and at most 12.6 million. It read low in 2024 to 2026, when growth was speeding up. The published totals themselves are rounded to 0.1 million, country-code counts are ZookNIC estimates, and Verisign restates history when its method changes (see breaks)."}},"label":{"footer_number":"full digits, en-US grouping, e.g. 414,221,917 at t0 plus 29 days, Geist Mono, tabular figures","footer_label":"Domain names registered worldwide (estimate)","aria_description":"Estimate based on Verisign's Domain Name Industry Brief for Q3 2026. Opens the history.","chart_caption":"Registered domain names at each date. 1989 to 1997: domains found in DNS surveys (Hobbes' Internet Timeline), not registry counts. From the end of 2003: Verisign's Domain Name Industry Brief, across all top-level domains. No worldwide count exists for 1997 to 2003, so it is left as a gap. Marked points are where Verisign changed what it counts.","popup_anchor_line":"Estimate for right now. Verisign counted 411.6 million on September 30, 2026.","footnote":"Source: Verisign, The Domain Name Industry Brief, Q3 2026 (published October 22, 2026): 411.6 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains on September 30, 2026. Country-code domains are estimated by ZookNIC, and Verisign leaves out .tk, .cf, .ga, .gq and .ml. Between reports we add 1.05 registrations a second, the average net growth over the four quarters to September 30, 2026 (33.0 million in 365 days). Tested on 25 past quarters, this method was off by 2.5 million on average by the end of a quarter. The next report replaces the estimate.","static_fallback":"411.6 million domain names registered worldwide (Verisign, September 30, 2026)"},"quality_levels":{"primary":"Verisign DNIB PDF, read in full","verisign":"Verisign blog or release text","secondary":"a third party quoting a Verisign figure, or a compiled survey"},"scopes":{"all-tlds":"Verisign DNIB total","dns-survey":"domains found in a DNS survey, not a registry count","gtld-only":"ZookNIC root zone count of the generic TLDs only (.com, .net, .org, and from 2001 .biz and .info): a floor under the worldwide total, never charted as the total"},"breaks":[{"date":"1992-07-01","what":"Survey count falls from 20,000 to 16,300 between April and July 1992; the source does not explain it."},{"date":"1997-07-01","what":"End of the DNS survey series. No worldwide all-TLD count was found until the end of 2003 (60 million, first DNIB). ZookNIC's generic-TLD-only counts for 1999, 2001 and 2004 are kept as gtld-only points with chart false: they are a floor, not the total."},{"date":"2003-12-31","what":"Start of Verisign's Domain Name Industry Brief (first published February 2004). All later points count registrations across all TLDs, with ccTLDs estimated by Zooknic/ZookNIC."},{"date":"2013-09-30","what":"No brief for Q1 to Q3 2013. Q3 2013 is a Verisign statement (265 million)."},{"date":"2016-09-30","what":"Zooknic restated .tk from Q4 2014. Verisign's adjusted totals: Q2 2016 325.2 million (published 334.6), Q3 2015 294.3 million (published 299). Earlier points are as published.","source_url":"https://www.dnib.com/media/downloads/reports/pdfs/2016/domain-name-report-2016Q3.pdf"},{"date":"2021-12-31","what":"Verisign excluded .tk, .cf, .ga, .gq and .ml from Q4 2021 on and adjusted history in that edition. The published series drops from 364.6 million (Q3 2021) to 341.7 million (Q4 2021); on the adjusted basis Q4 2021 was up 3.3 million.","source_url":"https://www.dnib.com/media/downloads/reports/pdfs/2021/domain-name-report-Q42021.pdf"},{"date":"2023-06-30","what":"\"With the launch of the DNIB.com dashboards, 16 additional TLDs have been included in applicable calculations\" (Q2 2023 editor's note), history adjusted in that edition. Q1 2023 was published as 354.0 million; Q2 2023's stated +1.7 million implies an adjusted 354.9 million.","source_url":"https://www.dnib.com/media/downloads/reports/domain_name_report_Q22023.pdf","also_source_url":"https://itweb.africa/amp/content/JBwErvn3Jl676Db2"}],"events":[{"date":"1985-03-15","label":"symbolics.com, the first registered .com","source_url":"https://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/"}],"points":[{"date":"1989-07-01","period":"1989-07","total":3900,"total_text":"3,900","approx":true,"scope":"dns-survey","quality":"secondary","source_url":"https://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/","source_title":"Hobbes' Internet Timeline v25 (R. H. Zakon), Growth table: 'Domains = registered domain name (with name server record)'","note":"Survey of domains found in the DNS (Lottor zone program reports), not a registry total. Month only in the source; the day is set to the 1st."},{"date":"1990-10-01","period":"1990-10","total":9300,"total_text":"9,300","approx":true,"scope":"dns-survey","quality":"secondary","source_url":"https://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/","source_title":"Hobbes' Internet Timeline v25 (R. H. Zakon), Growth table: 'Domains = registered domain name (with name server record)'","note":"Survey of domains found in the DNS (Lottor zone program reports), not a registry total. Month only in the source; the day is set to the 1st."},{"date":"1991-07-01","period":"1991-07","total":16000,"total_text":"16,000","approx":true,"scope":"dns-survey","quality":"secondary","source_url":"https://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/","source_title":"Hobbes' Internet Timeline v25 (R. H. Zakon), Growth table: 'Domains = registered domain name (with name server record)'","note":"Survey of domains found in the DNS (Lottor zone program reports), not a registry total. Month only in the source; the day is set to the 1st."},{"date":"1991-10-01","period":"1991-10","total":18000,"total_text":"18,000","approx":true,"scope":"dns-survey","quality":"secondary","source_url":"https://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/","source_title":"Hobbes' Internet Timeline v25 (R. H. Zakon), Growth table: 'Domains = registered domain name (with name server record)'","note":"Survey of domains found in the DNS (Lottor zone program reports), not a registry total. Month only in the source; the day is set to the 1st."},{"date":"1992-04-01","period":"1992-04","total":20000,"total_text":"20,000","approx":true,"scope":"dns-survey","quality":"secondary","source_url":"https://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/","source_title":"Hobbes' Internet Timeline v25 (R. H. Zakon), Growth table: 'Domains = registered domain name (with name server record)'","note":"Survey of domains found in the DNS (Lottor zone program reports), not a registry total. Month only in the source; the day is set to the 1st."},{"date":"1992-07-01","period":"1992-07","total":16300,"total_text":"16,300","approx":true,"scope":"dns-survey","quality":"secondary","source_url":"https://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/","source_title":"Hobbes' Internet Timeline v25 (R. H. Zakon), Growth table: 'Domains = registered domain name (with name server record)'","note":"Survey of domains found in the DNS (Lottor zone program reports), not a registry total. Month only in the source; the day is set to the 1st. The drop from 20,000 to 16,300 is in the source and is not explained there."},{"date":"1992-10-01","period":"1992-10","total":18100,"total_text":"18,100","approx":true,"scope":"dns-survey","quality":"secondary","source_url":"https://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/","source_title":"Hobbes' Internet Timeline v25 (R. H. Zakon), Growth table: 'Domains = registered domain name (with name server record)'","note":"Survey of domains found in the DNS (Lottor zone program reports), not a registry total. Month only in the source; the day is set to the 1st."},{"date":"1993-01-01","period":"1993-01","total":21000,"total_text":"21,000","approx":true,"scope":"dns-survey","quality":"secondary","source_url":"https://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/","source_title":"Hobbes' Internet Timeline v25 (R. H. Zakon), Growth table: 'Domains = registered domain name (with name server record)'","note":"Survey of domains found in the DNS (Lottor zone program reports), not a registry total. Month only in the source; the day is set to the 1st.","also_source_url":"https://archive.icann.org/en/meetings/lisbon/presentation-university-outreach-b-29mar07.pdf"},{"date":"1993-04-01","period":"1993-04","total":22000,"total_text":"22,000","approx":true,"scope":"dns-survey","quality":"secondary","source_url":"https://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/","source_title":"Hobbes' Internet Timeline v25 (R. H. Zakon), Growth table: 'Domains = registered domain name (with name server record)'","note":"Survey of domains found in the DNS (Lottor zone program reports), not a registry total. Month only in the source; the day is set to the 1st."},{"date":"1993-07-01","period":"1993-07","total":26000,"total_text":"26,000","approx":true,"scope":"dns-survey","quality":"secondary","source_url":"https://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/","source_title":"Hobbes' Internet Timeline v25 (R. H. Zakon), Growth table: 'Domains = registered domain name (with name server record)'","note":"Survey of domains found in the DNS (Lottor zone program reports), not a registry total. Month only in the source; the day is set to the 1st."},{"date":"1993-10-01","period":"1993-10","total":28000,"total_text":"28,000","approx":true,"scope":"dns-survey","quality":"secondary","source_url":"https://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/","source_title":"Hobbes' Internet Timeline v25 (R. H. Zakon), Growth table: 'Domains = registered domain name (with name server record)'","note":"Survey of domains found in the DNS (Lottor zone program reports), not a registry total. Month only in the source; the day is set to the 1st."},{"date":"1994-01-01","period":"1994-01","total":30000,"total_text":"30,000","approx":true,"scope":"dns-survey","quality":"secondary","source_url":"https://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/","source_title":"Hobbes' Internet Timeline v25 (R. H. Zakon), Growth table: 'Domains = registered domain name (with name server record)'","note":"Survey of domains found in the DNS (Lottor zone program reports), not a registry total. Month only in the source; the day is set to the 1st."},{"date":"1994-07-01","period":"1994-07","total":46000,"total_text":"46,000","approx":true,"scope":"dns-survey","quality":"secondary","source_url":"https://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/","source_title":"Hobbes' Internet Timeline v25 (R. H. Zakon), Growth table: 'Domains = registered domain name (with name server record)'","note":"Survey of domains found in the DNS (Lottor zone program reports), not a registry total. Month only in the source; the day is set to the 1st."},{"date":"1994-10-01","period":"1994-10","total":56000,"total_text":"56,000","approx":true,"scope":"dns-survey","quality":"secondary","source_url":"https://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/","source_title":"Hobbes' Internet Timeline v25 (R. H. Zakon), Growth table: 'Domains = registered domain name (with name server record)'","note":"Survey of domains found in the DNS (Lottor zone program reports), not a registry total. Month only in the source; the day is set to the 1st."},{"date":"1995-01-01","period":"1995-01","total":71000,"total_text":"71,000","approx":true,"scope":"dns-survey","quality":"secondary","source_url":"https://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/","source_title":"Hobbes' Internet Timeline v25 (R. H. Zakon), Growth table: 'Domains = registered domain name (with name server record)'","note":"Survey of domains found in the DNS (Lottor zone program reports), not a registry total. Month only in the source; the day is set to the 1st."},{"date":"1995-07-01","period":"1995-07","total":120000,"total_text":"120,000","approx":true,"scope":"dns-survey","quality":"secondary","source_url":"https://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/","source_title":"Hobbes' Internet Timeline v25 (R. H. Zakon), Growth table: 'Domains = registered domain name (with name server record)'","note":"Survey of domains found in the DNS (Lottor zone program reports), not a registry total. Month only in the source; the day is set to the 1st."},{"date":"1996-01-01","period":"1996-01","total":240000,"total_text":"240,000","approx":true,"scope":"dns-survey","quality":"secondary","source_url":"https://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/","source_title":"Hobbes' Internet Timeline v25 (R. H. Zakon), Growth table: 'Domains = registered domain name (with name server record)'","note":"Survey of domains found in the DNS (Lottor zone program reports), not a registry total. Month only in the source; the day is set to the 1st.","also_source_url":"https://archive.icann.org/en/meetings/lisbon/presentation-university-outreach-b-29mar07.pdf"},{"date":"1996-07-01","period":"1996-07","total":488000,"total_text":"488,000","approx":true,"scope":"dns-survey","quality":"secondary","source_url":"https://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/","source_title":"Hobbes' Internet Timeline v25 (R. H. Zakon), Growth table: 'Domains = registered domain name (with name server record)'","note":"Survey of domains found in the DNS (Lottor zone program reports), not a registry total. Month only in the source; the day is set to the 1st."},{"date":"1997-01-01","period":"1997-01","total":828000,"total_text":"828,000","approx":true,"scope":"dns-survey","quality":"secondary","source_url":"https://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/","source_title":"Hobbes' Internet Timeline v25 (R. H. Zakon), Growth table: 'Domains = registered domain name (with name server record)'","note":"Survey of domains found in the DNS (Lottor zone program reports), not a registry total. Month only in the source; the day is set to the 1st."},{"date":"1997-07-01","period":"1997-07","total":1301000,"total_text":"1,301,000","approx":true,"scope":"dns-survey","quality":"secondary","source_url":"https://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/","source_title":"Hobbes' Internet Timeline v25 (R. H. Zakon), Growth table: 'Domains = registered domain name (with name server record)'","note":"Survey of domains found in the DNS (Lottor zone program reports), not a registry total. Month only in the source; the day is set to the 1st."},{"date":"1999-01-01","period":"1999-01-01","total":4038744,"total_text":"4,038,744","approx":false,"scope":"gtld-only","quality":"secondary","source_url":"https://zooknic.com/Domains/counts.html","source_title":"ZookNIC, \"History of gTLD domain name growth\" (root zone counts; page last updated April 23, 2008)","also_source_url":"https://archive.icann.org/en/meetings/lisbon/presentation-university-outreach-b-29mar07.pdf","note":"Generic TLDs only (.com, .net and .org), counted by ZookNIC in the root zone files: a floor under the worldwide total, not the total. ICANN's deck of 29 March 2007 lists it as January 1999, 4.0 million, without naming the scope. Not on the all-TLD chart.","chart":false},{"date":"2001-01-30","period":"2001-01-30","total":27969779,"total_text":"27,969,779","approx":false,"scope":"gtld-only","quality":"secondary","source_url":"https://zooknic.com/Domains/counts.html","source_title":"ZookNIC, \"History of gTLD domain name growth\" (root zone counts; page last updated April 23, 2008)","also_source_url":"https://archive.icann.org/en/meetings/lisbon/presentation-university-outreach-b-29mar07.pdf","note":"Generic TLDs only (.com, .net and .org), counted by ZookNIC in the root zone files: a floor under the worldwide total, not the total. ICANN's deck of 29 March 2007 lists it as January 2001, 27.9 million, without naming the scope. Not on the all-TLD chart.","chart":false},{"date":"2003-12-31","period":"2003","total":60000000,"total_text":"60 million","approx":true,"scope":"all-tlds","quality":"secondary","source_url":"https://www.networkworld.com/article/880224/lan-wan-domain-name-sales-soar.html","source_title":"Network World, \"Domain name sales soar\" (citing the VeriSign Domain Name Industry Brief)","source_published":"2004-03-01","note":"\"grew 16% to an all-time high of 60 million in 2003\". First DNIB, February 2004."},{"date":"2004-01-15","period":"2004-01-15","total":35340170,"total_text":"35,340,170","approx":false,"scope":"gtld-only","quality":"secondary","source_url":"https://zooknic.com/Domains/counts.html","source_title":"ZookNIC, \"History of gTLD domain name growth\" (root zone counts; page last updated April 23, 2008)","also_source_url":"https://archive.icann.org/en/meetings/lisbon/presentation-university-outreach-b-29mar07.pdf","note":"Generic TLDs only (.com, .net, .org, .biz and .info), counted by ZookNIC in the root zone files: a floor under the worldwide total, not the total. ICANN's deck of 29 March 2007 lists it as January 2004, 35.3 million, without naming the scope. Not on the all-TLD chart.","chart":false},{"date":"2004-03-31","period":"Q1 2004","total":63000000,"total_text":"more than 63 million","approx":true,"scope":"all-tlds","quality":"secondary","source_url":"https://circleid.com/posts/data_reveals_domain_name_registrations_have_hit_all_time_highs","source_title":"CircleID, \"Data reveals domain name registrations have hit all time highs\" (VeriSign DNIB)","source_published":"2004-06-08"},{"date":"2004-09-30","period":"Q3 2004","total":66300000,"total_text":"66.3 million","approx":false,"scope":"all-tlds","quality":"secondary","source_url":"https://www.whtop.com/news/7363-verisign-releases-domain-name-data","source_title":"WHIR via WHTop, \"VeriSign Releases Domain Name Data\" (fourth DNIB, Q3 2004)","source_published":"2004-12-01"},{"date":"2005-03-31","period":"Q1 2005","total":76900000,"total_text":"76.9 million","approx":false,"scope":"all-tlds","quality":"secondary","source_url":"https://internetnews.com/research/global-domain-names-on-a-high","source_title":"InternetNews, \"Global Domain Names on a High\" (VeriSign DNIB, May 2005)","source_published":"2005-06-09"},{"date":"2005-06-30","period":"Q2 2005","total":82900000,"total_text":"82.9 million","approx":false,"scope":"all-tlds","quality":"secondary","source_url":"https://tiinside.com.br/en/18/08/2005/registros-de-nomes-de-dominio-atingem-829-milhoes/","source_title":"TI Inside, \"Registros de nomes de dominio atingem 82,9 milhoes\" (VeriSign DNIB, August 2005)","source_published":"2005-08-18","note":"Headline and search snippet only: the page answered 403 to our fetch."},{"date":"2006-09-30","period":"Q3 2006","total":112000000,"total_text":"over 112 million","approx":true,"scope":"all-tlds","quality":"secondary","source_url":"https://domainnamewire.com/?p=779","source_title":"Domain Name Wire, \"Domain Registrations hit 112 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million","approx":true,"scope":"all-tlds","quality":"secondary","source_url":"https://www.dnjournal.com/archive/lowdown/2007/dailyposts/12-05-07.htm","source_title":"DN Journal, December 5, 2007 (VeriSign DNIB, Q3 2007)","source_published":"2007-12-05"},{"date":"2007-12-31","period":"Q4 2007","total":153000000,"total_text":"more than 153 million","approx":true,"scope":"all-tlds","quality":"primary","source_url":"https://www.verisign.com/assets/domain-name-report-march08.pdf","source_title":"VeriSign, The Domain Name Industry Brief, March 2008"},{"date":"2008-03-31","period":"Q1 2008","total":162000000,"total_text":"more than 162 million","approx":true,"scope":"all-tlds","quality":"primary","source_url":"https://www.verisign.com/assets/domain-name-report-june08.pdf","source_title":"VeriSign, The Domain Name Industry Brief, June 2008","splits_million":{"cctld":63}},{"date":"2008-06-30","period":"Q2 2008","total":168000000,"total_text":"168 million","approx":true,"scope":"all-tlds","quality":"secondary","source_url":"https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/africann/2008-September/000930.html","source_title":"VeriSign release \"September Domain Brief\" as posted to the AfrICANN list","source_published":"2008-09"},{"date":"2008-09-30","period":"Q3 2008","total":174000000,"total_text":"174 million","approx":true,"scope":"all-tlds","quality":"secondary","source_url":"https://goldsteinreport.com/174-million-domain-names-worldwide-but-registration-growth-slows-2/","source_title":"Goldstein Report, \"174 Million Domain Names Worldwide, But Registration Growth Slows\"","source_published":"2008-12-05"},{"date":"2008-12-31","period":"Q4 2008","total":177000000,"total_text":"177 million","approx":true,"scope":"all-tlds","quality":"primary","source_url":"https://www.verisign.com/assets/domain-name-report-feb09.pdf","source_title":"VeriSign, The Domain Name Industry Brief, February 2009"},{"date":"2009-03-31","period":"Q1 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