According to Verisign, the first quarter of 2019 closed with 351.8 million domain
name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 3.1
million domain name registrations, or 0.9 percent, compared to the fourth
quarter of 2018. Domain name
registrations have grown by 18.0 million, or 5.4 percent, year over year.
Total country-code TLD (ccTLD) domain name registrations
were 156.8 million at the end of the first quarter of 2019, an increase of 2.5
million domain name registrations, or 1.6 percent, compared to the fourth
quarter of 2018. ccTLDs increased by
10.5 million domain name registrations, or 7.2 percent, year over year.
The .com and .net TLDs had a combined total of 154.8 million
domain name registrations in the domain name base at the end of the first
quarter of 2019, an increase of 1.8 million domain name registrations, or 1.2
percent, compared to the fourth quarter of 2018. The .com and .net TLDs had a
combined increase of 6.5 million domain name registrations, or 4.4 percent,
year over year. As of March 31, 2019, the .com domain name base totaled 141.0
million domain name registrations, while the .net domain name base totaled 13.8
million domain name registrations.
New .com and .net domain name registrations totaled 9.8
million at the end of the first quarter of 2019, compared to 9.6 million domain
name registrations at the end of the first quarter of 2018.
Total new gTLD (ngTLD) domain name registrations were 23.0
million at the end of the first quarter of 2019, a decrease of 0.8 million
domain name registrations, or 3.4 percent, compared to the fourth quarter of
2018. ngTLDs increased by 2.8 million domain name registrations, or 13.8
percent, year over year.
