How Many Domains
Are There in 2026?

According to Verisign, there were 392.5M domain name registrations across all top-level domains at the end of Q1 2026.

• Verisign reported 392.5M total domain name registrations at the end of Q1 2026.
• That was up 5.6M from Q4 2025.
• The quarter-over-quarter growth rate was 1.4%.
• The year-over-year gain was 24.1M, or 6.5%.

This is a domain-registration benchmark, not a count of active websites. One domain can be parked, redirect elsewhere, host many subdomains, or not resolve to an active website at all.

Verisign's latest quarterly benchmark shows growth in both short-term and year-over-year comparisons.

• Total domain registrations increased by 5.6M from Q4 2025 to Q1 2026.
• The quarter-over-quarter increase was 1.4%.
• Total domain registrations increased by 24.1M year over year.
• The year-over-year increase was 6.5%.

Quarterly registration growth is the cleanest trend view because domain registrations are renewed, dropped, created, transferred, and reclassified continuously.

The .com and .net base remains the largest named breakout in Verisign's current domain-registration release.

• The combined .com and .net domain name base was 176.1M at the end of Q1 2026.
• The .com domain name base totaled 163.6M registrations.
• The .net domain name base totaled 12.4M registrations.
• New .com and .net registrations totaled 11.5M at the end of Q1 2026.

The combined .com and .net base grew 3.7% year over year, so legacy TLDs are still expanding even as newer extensions compete for registrations.

Country-code TLDs are the second major registration layer in Verisign's current quarterly benchmark.

• Country-code TLD registrations totaled 146.3M at the end of Q1 2026.
• ccTLDs grew by 0.7M quarter over quarter.
• The ccTLD quarter-over-quarter growth rate was 0.5%.
• ccTLDs grew 3.4M year over year, or 2.4%.

Verisign listed the top 10 ccTLDs as .cn, .de, .uk, .ru, .nl, .br, .fr, .au, .in and .eu as of March 31, 2026.

A domain count measures registrations in the DNS naming system. It does not directly measure active websites, unique owners, webpages, companies, or internet users.

• A single registrant can own many domains.
• A single domain can host many pages, subdomains, or services.
• A registered domain can be parked, unused, redirected, expired later, or renewed for years.
• That is why the domain-registration benchmark should not be treated as a live count of active websites.

For website counts, the separate Siteefy website statistics page uses web-server survey data. This page stays focused on domain registrations.