Domain Name Registrations Reach 336,930,578 in May 2025

The domain name base continued its upward trajectory in May, growing 2.21% year-over-year to reach 336,930,578 registrations.

Written with google/gemma-3-27b-it from primary registry data · 2026-07-24

This month in domains — the news

Everything an industry insider should have caught this month — M&A, earnings from listed registrars & hosters, leadership moves, ICANN & policy, pricing, security. Gathered from public sources; each headline links to its origin — please verify via the linked source.

• earningsGoDaddy Reports First Quarter 2025 Financial Results · 2025-05-24
  GoDaddy reported Q1 2025 revenue of $1.194 billion, up 7.7% year-over-year, and bookings of $1.417 billion, up 7.9% (8.7% constant currency). They expect Q2 2025 revenue to be in the range of $1.195 billion to $1.215 billion, representing year-over-year growth of 7% at the midpoint, and reaffirmed full-year revenue guidance of $4.860 billion to $4.940 billion, representing year-over-year growth of 7% at the midpoint. — GoDaddy ↗
• earningsIONOS with strong growth in the first quarter of 2025 · 2025-05-20
  IONOS Group SE reported Q1 2025 revenue of €317.1 million, an increase of 16.4%. Customers increased by 19.7% to 8.6 million. They expect full-year 2025 revenue of approximately €1,300 million and adjusted EBITDA of around €520 million. — EQS News ↗
• earningsNameSilo Technologies Corp. Announces Q1 2025 Results · 2025-05-15
  NameSilo reported Q1 2025 revenue of $15,872,636, an increase of 24.0% compared to Q1 2024. Gross Profit was $4,182,472, or 26.4% of revenues. Operating income was $1,953,560 and Net income was $1,623,623, an increase of 60.9%. Total Bookings were $17,463,320. — Newswire ↗
• cctldThe DNIB Quarterly Report Q1 2025 · 2025-05-01
  The first quarter of 2025 closed with 368.4 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 1.1% compared to Q4 2024. .com and .net TLDs had a combined decrease of 2.6 million domain name registrations, or 1.5%, year over year. Preliminary combined renewal percentage for .com and .net TLDs is 75.3%. — DNIB ↗
• securityFTC finalizes order requiring GoDaddy to secure hosting services · 2025-05-01
  The FTC finalized an order requiring GoDaddy to implement stronger security measures for its hosting services following a series of data breaches. — BleepingComputer ↗
• policyICANN Contractual Compliance Dashboard May 2025 · 2025-05-25
  The ICANN Contractual Compliance Dashboard for May 2025 shows ongoing compliance monitoring activities. — ICANN ↗
• policyCEO Report to the Board for the Period Covering 9 December 2024 – 9 May 2025 · 2025-05-28
  The ICANN CEO report to the board covers the period from December 9, 2024, to May 9, 2025, detailing ICANN's activities and progress. — ICANN ↗
• hostingMay 2025 Web Server Survey · 2025-05-01
  Netcraft's May 2025 Web Server Survey provides data on web server technologies and market share. — Netcraft ↗
• cctldVeriSign, Inc. Registry Sensitive Information · 2025-05-01
  This document contains sensitive information related to the .com registry operations. — ICANN ↗

Overview

As of May 2025, there were 336,930,578 domain name registrations across all tracked Top-Level Domains. This represents a year-over-year increase of 2.21%. The total is split between 237,608,849 generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) and 99,321,729 country-code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs).

Growth Leaders

Several gTLDs experienced substantial percentage growth in May. .loan led with a year-over-year increase of 1169.6%, reaching a total of 108,668 registrations. .xin followed with 692.3% growth to 97,432 registrations, and .gdn saw a 560.1% increase, totaling 82,520 registrations. .yachts grew by 288.6% to 52,109 registrations, and .rest increased by 281.4% to 119,954 registrations. .boats registered growth of 226.4%, reaching 55,075 registrations.

Looking at absolute gains, .top saw the largest increase with 1,301,098 new registrations, a 40.5% year-over-year increase, bringing its total to 4,512,173. .xyz added 1,097,787 registrations (28.2% YoY), reaching 4,985,549. .cn added 690,000 registrations (3.4% YoY) for a total of 20,820,000. .shop added 644,038 registrations (20.2% YoY) for a total of 3,835,909, and .us added 445,057 registrations (21.1% YoY) for a total of 2,550,544.

Notable Declines

Conversely, several gTLDs experienced declines. .cfd saw the largest percentage decrease, falling by 60.7% to 436,598 registrations. .bio decreased by 37.4% to 51,961 registrations, while .tokyo dropped by 33.3% to 134,247 registrations. .monster fell by 30.1% to 53,585 registrations, .website decreased by 12.3% to 300,072 registrations, and .xn--ses554g decreased by 10.1% to 84,002 registrations.

In terms of absolute losses, .com experienced a decrease of 1,400,137 registrations (-0.9% YoY), remaining the largest TLD with 161,138,425 registrations. .net lost 414,039 registrations (-3.1% YoY) to reach 12,852,432 registrations.

Registrar Landscape

GoDaddy remains the largest registrar with 58,092,164 registrations, representing 30.4% market share, though it experienced a 3.6% year-over-year decrease (-2,166,967 registrations). Namecheap holds 6.8% of the market with 13,011,355 registrations, showing an 11.6% increase (1,349,967 registrations). Tucows (Enom/OpenSRS/Ascio/Hover) accounts for 6.7% of registrations (12,773,639), a decrease of 2.3% (-305,323 registrations). Squarespace / Google holds 5.2% of the market (10,032,247 registrations) with 4.5% growth (427,943 registrations). Hostinger was the top-gaining registrar, increasing by 86% (1,368,269 registrations) to 2,959,202 registrations.

Market Activity

May saw 6,742,976 new domain creations, 11,148,966 renewals, and 6,334,207 deletions. Transfers totaled 622,499. This resulted in a net increase of 408,769 registrations. A total of 1,125 TLDs reported data.

Country-Code Movers & Milestones

Among ccTLDs, .ai experienced significant growth with a 69% year-over-year increase, reaching 598,007 registrations. .id grew by 35.6% to 1,242,247 registrations, and .us grew by 21.1% to 2,550,544 registrations. .nu decreased by 8% to 212,366 registrations, .ua decreased by 3.1% to 446,755 registrations, and .dk decreased by 2.5% to 1,313,901 registrations.

.sbs reached a milestone in May, surpassing 1,000,000 registrations, totaling 1,024,961.

By the numbers

Exact figures for May 2025, each linking to the registry file it came from.

Biggest TLDs

Fastest growing (gTLD, YoY %)

Biggest movers by volume (net domains YoY)

Fastest shrinking (gTLD, YoY %)

Country-code movers

Registrar families

Numbers are exact registry figures; each links to its source file. See the live data on All TLDs. ← All reports