Domain Name Market Continues Expansion in November 2025

The domain name base reached 349,344,247 registrations in November 2025, representing a 5.77% year-over-year increase.

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.

• earningsIONOS Reports Successful First Nine Months of 2025, to Sell AdTech Business · 2025-11-11
  IONOS reported revenue of €980.2 million (up 6.2% year-over-year) and adjusted EBITDA of €368.5 million (up 20.8%) for the first nine months of 2025, with 6.53 million customers. The company expects full-year revenue growth of approximately 8% and an adjusted EBITDA margin of approximately 35%. — EQS News ↗
• earningsVeriSign Reports Q3 2025 Results · 2025-11-28
  VeriSign reported revenue of $419 million for Q3 2025, up 7.3% from $390.8 million in Q3 2024. Net income was $213 million with diluted EPS of $2.27. The company ended the quarter with 171.9 million .com and .net domain name registrations, a 1.4% increase year-over-year. — SEC Filing ↗
• earningsNameSilo Q3 2025 Results · 2025-11-28
  NameSilo reported revenue of $16.9 million for Q3 2025, a 9% increase. Bookings were $32.1 million, a 135% increase. Adjusted EBITDA increased to $4.46 million. — Nasdaq ↗
• earningsTucows Q3 2025 Results · 2025-11-28
  Tucows reported top line growth of 7% year-over-year in Q3 2025. Adjusted EBITDA increased 53% to $13.3 million in Q3 and to $39.5 million year-to-date, putting them on track to meet full-year guidance of $47 million. — Tucows Investor Relations ↗
• policyVeriSign Q3 2025 Earnings Call Transcript - Upcoming New gTLD Round · 2025-11-27
  VeriSign expects the next round of new gTLD applications to begin in Q2 2026, with deployment potentially in 2027, pending ICANN processes. — The Motley Fool ↗
• policyICANN Contractual Compliance Report · 2025-11-30
  ICANN published a contractual compliance report as of November 30, 2025. — ICANN ↗
• policyVeriSign Registry Sensitive Information · 2025-11-01
  VeriSign published registry sensitive information. — ICANN ↗

Overview

As of November 2025, the total number of domain name registrations across all tracked Top-Level Domains (TLDs) reached 349,344,247. This represents a year-over-year growth rate of 5.77%. The domain name base is split between generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) and country-code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs), with 249,787,345 registrations in gTLDs and 99,556,902 in ccTLDs.

Growth Leaders

The fastest percentage growth among gTLDs was observed in .xyz, with a year-over-year increase of 84.5%. .top followed with 94.4% growth. However, assessing growth by absolute volume reveals a different picture. .com led with an absolute year-over-year increase of 3,847,661 registrations, despite a more modest percentage growth of 2.4%. .xyz added 3,651,319 registrations, and .top added 3,062,985.

Notable Declines

Several gTLDs experienced declines in registration numbers. .lol saw the most significant decrease, with a year-over-year drop of 62.6%. .net registrations decreased by 2.5%, representing a loss of 325,612 registrations. .buzz experienced a 46.6% decline. Among ccTLDs, .nu saw a 9.4% decrease.

Registrar Landscape

Across all tracked registrars, a total of 195,423,781 domain names were managed. GoDaddy maintains the largest market share at 29.4%, managing 57,530,865 domain names, although they experienced a year-over-year decrease of 2.4%, equating to a loss of 1,391,148 registrations. Namecheap demonstrated the most significant growth among major registrars, with a 13.6% increase, adding 1,660,481 registrations, bringing their total to 13,854,634. Tucows (Enom/OpenSRS/Ascio/Hover) saw a decrease of 8.1%, losing 1,055,665 registrations. These large swings in registration numbers often reflect bulk portfolio transfers between registrars.

Market Activity

November 2025 saw 8,402,561 new domain name registrations (creates) and 5,557,776 deletions. Renewals accounted for 10,217,266 domain names, and 631,653 domain names were transferred between registrars. The net increase in registrations (net adds) was 2,844,785, indicating continued positive growth in the domain name market. Data was reported for 1122 TLDs.

Country-Code Movers & Milestones

Among ccTLDs, .id experienced the highest growth, with a year-over-year increase of 24.6%. .ai grew by 12.2%. Conversely, .us saw a decline of 4.4%. The .app TLD surpassed 1,000,000 registrations, reaching a total of 1,002,828. The .info TLD exceeded 5,000,000 registrations, totaling 5,242,589.

By the numbers

Exact figures for November 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