Stats
Legacy gTLD · delegated 1985-01 · VeriSign, Inc.

.com TLD stats

.com held 159,938,837 names in December 2024, as VeriSign, Inc. reported to ICANN; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 168,042,876. 2,688 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, GoDaddy.com, LLC, held 31.1%.

159.94M
names, December 2024, reported to ICANN
168.04M
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026
2,688
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, January 2010

Names on the books at the end of each year since general availability, from the registry's monthly reports to ICANN, through May 2026. The marked point is the zone count of 23 Oct 2026, a different count taken on one night.

Year by year since launch, as the registry reported it

In its 26th year, to December 2010, 875 registrars held 10 or more .com names and the largest held 30%; by its 41th, to December 2025, 2,873 did and the largest held 30%.

  1. 26 · to Dec 201093.74M87530%
  2. 27 · to Dec 2011101.62M91431%
  3. 28 · to Dec 2012108.51M93832%
  4. 29 · to Dec 2013114.36M90733%
  5. 30 · to Dec 2014119.01M105333%
  6. 31 · to Dec 2015126.65M201732%
  7. 32 · to Dec 2016131.34M203132%
  8. 33 · to Dec 2017135.03M237833%
  9. 34 · to Dec 2018142.05M233833%
  10. 35 · to Dec 2019148.82M232233%
  11. 36 · to Dec 2020155.32M231833%
  12. 37 · to Dec 2021163.50M236632%
  13. 38 · to Dec 2022164.41M241432%
  14. 39 · to Dec 2023163.46M252632%
  15. 40 · to Dec 2024159.94M267331%
  16. 41 · to Dec 2025164.58M287330%

Year 1 starts at general availability and each year is labelled by the month it ends. Registrars with 10 or more names and the largest registrar's share are read at that month. A year with fewer than nine monthly reports is left blank.

Who sells it

December 2024

GoDaddy.com, LLC held 31.1% of .com names in December 2024; the largest five together held 48.3%.

Shares add to 100%. From the registry's report for December 2024.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 159,938,837 names for Dec 2024; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 8,104,039 more. The two are counted differently and 22 months apart: a registered name that is not delegated never appears in the zone, and a zone file is read on one night, a report at a month's end.

last night, in detail

Oct 23, 2026
What moved · on Oct 23, 2026
entered the zone
+181,158
left it
−121,199
changed nameservers
247,308
Net
+59,959
Sep 20, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 168,042,876 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers12,117,1617.2%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers1,652,5681.0%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers132,796,97879.0%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name21,476,16912.8%

Read from each name’s nameservers on the night shown. Listed and parked are counted separately.

How we classify
A name takes the row its nameservers match on our provider list. Verification nameservers sit beside a name’s other nameservers, so they overlap the rows above: 0.7%. List 2026.09.7+psl4b673689.

Counted from the registry’s own zone file on the night of Oct 23, 2026. A zone count is not domains under management: a registered name that is not delegated never appears in the zone, and a name on hold leaves the zone while it stays registered. The two numbers will not agree, and neither is wrong. Nights we did not capture break the line; a point marked “2-day span” covers more than one night.

how many names, month by month

to
Dec 2024 to Dec 2024

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly.

everything else