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 third quarter of 2025 closed with 378.5 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 6.8 million domain name registrations, or 1.8% compared to the second quarter of 2025. Domain name registrations also increased by 16.2 million, or 4.5%, year over year.
The .com and .net TLDs had a combined total of 171.9 million domain name registrations in the domain name base at the end of third quarter of 2025, an increase of 1.4 million domain name registrations, or 0.8% compared to the second quarter of 2025. The .com and .net TLDs had a combined increase of 2.4 million domain name registrations, or 1.4%, year over year. As of Sept. 30, 2025, the .com domain name base totaled 159.4 million domain name registrations and the .net domain name base totaled 12.5 million domain name registrations. New .com and .net domain name registrations totaled 10.6 million at the end of the third quarter of 2025, compared to 9.3 million domain name registrations at the end of the third quarter of 2024.
Total country-code TLD (ccTLD) domain name registrations were 144.8 million at the end of the third quarter of 2025, an increase of 1.4 million domain name registrations, or 1.0% compared to the second quarter of 2025. ccTLDs increased by 4.8 million domain name registrations, or 3.4%, year over year. The top 10 ccTLDs, as of Sept. 30, 2025, were .cn, .de, .uk, .ru, .nl, .br, .au, .fr, .in and .eu.
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