There are 192 million domains in the world.

According to a report from VeriSign, the domain zone administrator, there are 192 million registered second-level domain names worldwide across all zones. This number has increased by 15% over the past year.

The largest number of registered domain names are in the .com, .net, and .org zones. At the end of 2009, there were 96.7 million of them. According to the company's report, the largest number of domains among national zones are registered in .cn and .ru.

The total number of national second-level domains increased to 78.6 million at the end of the year, an increase of 7.5 million over the year.

According to VeriSign, the .cn (China) domain zone leads in absolute number of domains, followed by .de (Germany), .uk (United Kingdom), .nl (Netherlands), and .eu (European Union). The .ru domain ranks sixth.

There are 240 national top-level domains (NLDs) on the internet. However, the ten most popular ones account for 66% of all registered domain names.

In the last quarter of 2009, VeriSign's servers processed an average of 52 billion DNS queries per day, with a peak of 61 billion queries.

Let us recall that according to the Sedo company report, in 2009 the most popularremained.COM domains.