VeriSign Inc. announced that, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief Quarterly Report from DNIB.com, the fourth quarter of 2025 closed with 386.9 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), representing an increase of 8.4 million, or 2.2%, compared to the third quarter of 2025. Year over year, domain name registrations grew by 22.7 million, or 6.2%. Country-code TLD (ccTLD) domain name registrations reached 145.6 million at the end of the fourth quarter of 2025, an increase of 0.8 million, or 0.6%, from the previous quarter, and a year-over-year increase of 4.8 million, or 3.4%. The top 10 ccTLDs as of December 31, 2025, were .cn, .de, .uk, .ru, .nl, .br, .fr, .au, .in, and .eu. Combined .com and .net TLD registrations totaled 173.5 million at the end of the fourth quarter, up by 1.6 million, or 0.9%, from the third quarter, and by 4.5 million, or 2.6%, year over year. The .com domain had 161.0 million registrations, while .net had 12.5 million. New .com and .net registrations totaled 10.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2025, compared to 9.5 million in the same period of 2024.

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