Worldwide Domain Names Top 250 Million
The World Wide Web continues to grow bigger and bigger.
By the end of 2012, more than 252 million domains had been registered worldwide. That is a 12 percent increase over the end of 2011.
Interestingly, the growth of registered domain names is currently re-accelerating after a brief slowdown in 2009 and 2010.
The most common top-level domain remains .com with more than 100 million registered domains, followed by .de (Germany), .net and .uk (United Kingdom).
Today’s chart illustrates the growth of registered domain names since 2007.
Most popular top-level domains worldwide as of September 2025
Number of registered domain names in China from 2019 to 2024 (in millions)
Leading country code top level domains (ccTLD) as of September 2025, by number of registered domains (in millions)
Leading new generic top level domains (gTLD) as of August 2024, by number of domains (in millions)
Number of active .pl domain names in Poland from 2009 to 2024
Distribution of the ".es" domain as of February 2023, by type of domain
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