Domain Name Industry Reaches 357.4 Million Registrations in June 2026

Global domain portfolio expanded by 5.63% year-over-year, driven by gains in generic top-level domains.

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.

• policyIANA Monthly Performance Report - June 2026 · 2026-06-01
  The IANA Naming Function Monthly Performance Report for June 2026 was published, detailing performance metrics for the month. — IANA ↗

Overview

The total number of domain names across all tracked top-level domains reached 357,420,148 as of June 2026, representing a year-over-year increase of 5.63%. This figure is comprised of 256,630,837 generic top-level domains (gTLDs) and 100,789,311 country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs).

Growth Leaders

Several gTLDs experienced significant percentage growth. .xyz led with a year-over-year increase of 66%, reaching a total of 8,716,200 registrations. .top followed with a 36% increase, totaling 6,680,397 registrations. .beer saw the most dramatic percentage growth, increasing by 665.9% to 114,177 registrations. However, focusing solely on percentage gains can be misleading. Examining absolute gains reveals that .com added the most registrations, with a year-over-year increase of 5,742,670, bringing its total to 167,307,358. .xyz added 3,465,737 registrations, and .top added 1,767,007.

Notable Declines

While overall growth was positive, some TLDs experienced declines. .today saw the largest percentage decrease, falling by 59.9% to 218,857 registrations. .buzz declined by 39.9% to 199,514 registrations. In terms of absolute losses, .us experienced the largest reduction, with a decrease of 570,331 registrations, resulting in a total of 1,934,243. .net saw a decrease of 145,423 registrations.

Registrar Landscape

Registrar data is not available for this reporting period.

Market Activity

Domain name activity for June 2026 showed 66,824 creations, with no data reported for renewals, deletions, or transfers. The net addition of registrations was 66,824, indicating a healthy level of new domain registrations. Data was reported for 1293 TLDs.

Country-Code Movers & New Arrivals

Among ccTLDs, .id experienced the highest year-over-year growth at 12.1%, reaching 1,414,094 registrations. .ma followed with a 12% increase to 138,710 registrations, and .pt grew by 8.3% to 2,088,072 registrations. Conversely, .us saw a significant decline of 22.8%, falling to 1,934,243 registrations. .nu decreased by 3.3% to 204,391 registrations, while .ua decreased by 1.2% to 442,314 registrations.

No new TLDs were reported this month.

No milestones were reported.

By the numbers

Exact figures for June 2026, 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

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