Domain Industry Report: August 2025

Global domain registrations reached 341,197,172 in August 2025, representing a year-over-year increase of 3.75%.

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 Q2 2025 Financial Results · 2025-08-07
  GoDaddy reported total revenue of $1.2 billion (up 8% year-over-year) and total bookings of $1.3 billion (up 7% year-over-year). Net income rose 37% year-over-year to $199.9 million. — last10k.com ↗
• earningsVeriSign Reports Second Quarter 2025 Results · 2025-08-05
  VeriSign reported revenue of $410 million (up 5.9% from Q2 2024) and net income of $207 million. The .com and .net domain name base ended the quarter with 170.5 million registrations, a 0.1% decrease from Q2 2024. — investor.verisign.com ↗

Overview

As of August 2025, a total of 341,197,172 domain names were registered across all tracked Top-Level Domains (TLDs), a 3.75% increase year-over-year. This figure is comprised of 241,862,576 generic TLDs (gTLDs) and 99,334,596 country-code TLDs (ccTLDs).

Fastest Growth & Biggest Movers

The fastest percentage growth among gTLDs was observed in .xyz, with a 41.1% year-over-year increase, adding 1,722,653 registrations. .loan experienced the most dramatic percentage growth, at 1194.2%, but from a smaller base of 127,638 registrations. .xin followed with 831.8% growth, reaching 109,565 registrations.

Looking at absolute gains, .top led with an increase of 2,319,005 registrations, reaching a total of 5,549,888. .xyz followed with an absolute gain of 1,722,653 registrations, and .com saw an increase of 1,452,702 registrations.

It’s important to note the distinction between percentage and absolute growth; while .loan’s percentage increase is substantial, the absolute number of registrations remains relatively small compared to established TLDs like .com.

Notable Declines

Several gTLDs experienced declines in registrations. .bond saw the largest percentage decrease, falling 65.9% to 208,066 registrations, a loss of 401,623 registrations. .lol declined by 49%, totaling 350,023 registrations. .tokyo experienced a 47% decrease, reaching 106,250 registrations.

In absolute terms, .net experienced the largest decline, losing 368,010 registrations, followed by .cfd with a loss of 336,809 registrations. .nl also saw a notable absolute decline of 115,686 registrations.

Registrar Landscape

Registrar data indicates a total of 192,764,702 domains managed through tracked registrars. GoDaddy maintains the largest market share at 29.9%, managing 57,678,675 domains, though they experienced a 3% year-over-year decrease, losing 1,810,609 registrations. Namecheap demonstrated the most significant growth among major registrars, increasing by 13.1% (1,552,198 registrations) to reach 13,433,372 domains.

Tucows (Enom/OpenSRS/Ascio/Hover) holds a 6.5% share, with 12,579,599 domains, but experienced a 3.2% decrease. Large swings in registrar data can often be attributed to portfolio migrations.

Market Activity

Domain name activity in August 2025 showed 7,468,926 new registrations (creates), 10,548,073 renewals, and 6,287,297 deletions. Transfers accounted for 558,294. This resulted in a net increase of 1,181,629 domains. The ratio of creates to deletes suggests continued, though moderate, expansion in the domain name ecosystem.

Country-Code Movers & New Arrivals

Among ccTLDs, .ai experienced the most significant growth, increasing by 69% to 598,007 registrations. .id grew by 37.5% to 1,313,187 registrations, while .my saw a 12.5% increase to 352,717 registrations. Conversely, .nu declined by 9.2% to 209,493 registrations, and .dk decreased by 2.9% to 1,307,334 registrations.

No new TLDs were reported as launching in August 2025. No milestones were reported.

By the numbers

Exact figures for August 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