Verisign counts 215 million domains worldwide

According to a report from Verisign, the administrator of the .COM and .NET domains, there are more than 215 million domains worldwide. In the second quarter of this year, the number of domains increased by 2.5%, or 5.2 million new domain names.

Over the past year, the total number of registered domains increased by 8.6%, or 16.9 million domains, although the company emphasizes that not all domains are actively used.

According to Verisign, about 88% of domains are active.

In total, there are over 110 million names in the .COM and .NET domains. This is more than half of the total number of domains in the world. In these two domains, the number of names increased by 1.8% in the second quarter and by 8.3% year-over-year, or 8.1 million new domains in absolute numbers.

According to Verisign, more than 73% of domains are renewed for a new term.

The report states that 84.6 million domains are active in national geographic domain zones, growing by 2.9%, or 6.6 million names. The fastest growth was in the domains of Brazil, Australia, and Spain, growing by more than 4%. In total, national domains account for 60% of all registered domain names.

The largest national domain remains Germany (.DE), followed by the United Kingdom (.UK), China (.CN), the European Union (.EU) and Russia (.RU).