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

.net TLD stats

.net held 12,745,973 names in June 2026, as VeriSign, Inc. reported to ICANN; a third-party estimate put it at about 12,434,731 in October 2026; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 12,442,547.

12.75M
names, June 2026, reported to ICANN
12.44M
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026

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, 795 registrars held 10 or more .net names and the largest held 28%; by its 41th, to December 2025, 2,753 did and the largest held 25%.

  1. 26 · to Dec 201013.91M79528%
  2. 27 · to Dec 201114.72M83328%
  3. 28 · to Dec 201215.26M82028%
  4. 29 · to Dec 201315.54M84228%
  5. 30 · to Dec 201415.51M84228%
  6. 31 · to Dec 201516.17M142628%
  7. 32 · to Dec 201616.14M198027%
  8. 33 · to Dec 201714.95M229928%
  9. 34 · to Dec 201814.29M225228%
  10. 35 · to Dec 201913.74M222529%
  11. 36 · to Dec 202013.70M220328%
  12. 37 · to Dec 202113.70M225226%
  13. 38 · to Dec 202213.50M231426%
  14. 39 · to Dec 202313.42M240725%
  15. 40 · to Dec 202413.01M255325%
  16. 41 · to Dec 202512.71M275325%

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

May 2026

GoDaddy.com, LLC held 25.4% of .net names in May 2026; the largest five together held 43.4%.

Shares add to 100%. From the registry's report for May 2026.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 12,745,973 names for Jun 2026; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 303,426 fewer. The two are counted differently and 4 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
+9,470
left it
−8,414
changed nameservers
11,929
Net
+1,056
Sep 20, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 12,442,547 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers326,0042.6%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers112,8580.9%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers9,926,04779.8%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name2,077,63816.7%

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: 0.2%. 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.

Oct 2026: 12,434,731 — third-party estimate; the registry has not published that month yet.

how many names, month by month

Nov 2016 to Oct 2026

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Dashed months are third-party estimates.

everything else