.net
12,357,115 domains as of 18 Aug 2026
Registry details
From the IANA Root Zone Database and RDAP bootstrap.
- Registry operator
- VeriSign Global Registry Services
- Technical backend
- Verisign via ns suffix
- Delegated
- unknown
- Nameservers
- a.gtld-servers.net, b.gtld-servers.net, c.gtld-servers.net, d.gtld-servers.net, e.gtld-servers.net, f.gtld-servers.net, g.gtld-servers.net, h.gtld-servers.net, i.gtld-servers.net, j.gtld-servers.net, k.gtld-servers.net, l.gtld-servers.net, m.gtld-servers.net
- RDAP
- https://rdap.verisign.com/net/v1
- Zone data
- CZDS access approved — counted daily
Registrar share
individual · combinedRelated accreditations combined into corporate families, folding 15 of the 490 reporting here. This grouping is our inference, not ICANN's.
| GoDaddy4 accreditations | 3.41M | 26.9% |
|---|---|---|
| Namecheap2 accreditations | 940.68k | 7.41% |
| Newfold Digital3 accreditations | 583.45k | 4.6% |
| Tucows3 accreditations | 565.30k | 4.46% |
| Squarespace Domains II LLC | 527.10k | 4.15% |
| IONOS SE | 338.51k | 2.67% |
| Cloudflare, Inc. | 298.01k | 2.35% |
| GMO Internet Group, Inc. d/b/a Onamae.com | 297.99k | 2.35% |
| Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn)3 accreditations | 271.41k | 2.14% |
| Squarespace Domains LLC | 237.31k | 1.87% |
| Other480 more | 5.22M | 41.1% |
12,688,805 attributed to registrars that month, against 12,357,115 in 18 Aug 2026’s zone — the zone is 331,690 smaller. The two are months apart, and a registry's own count also includes registrations that are not delegated in the zone. Why there are two clocks.
Domains by month, Apr 2016 – Apr 2026
From ICANN's monthly registry reports — the registry's own count, summed across registrars. This is the long history: it reaches back to delegation, where the daily series below can only start when this site began collecting zone files.
| Month | Domains | Change | Registrars | Net adds | Deletes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | 12,688,805 | ▲ +21,335 | 2,862 | 208,542 | 199,783 |
| Mar 2026 | 12,667,470 | ▲ +42,335 | 2,865 | 214,837 | 176,938 |
| Feb 2026 | 12,625,135 | ▼ -99,683 | 2,866 | 195,402 | 299,369 |
| Jan 2026 | 12,724,818 | ▲ +11,950 | 2,869 | 197,122 | 200,008 |
| Dec 2025 | 12,712,868 | ▼ -1,873 | 2,873 | 197,535 | 190,006 |
| Nov 2025 | 12,714,741 | ▼ -44,598 | 2,871 | 194,998 | 252,704 |
Showing the latest 6 of 121 months in this range. Show all 121.
Domains over time
Counted from daily zone files. Names with at least one NS record or a DS record.
Daily adds and drops
Day-over-day difference of the zone's name list, over the same window as the chart above.
- Added
- Dropped
Registrars
Registry activity
Query volumes and EPP operations reported monthly by the registry. The only public signal of how much a TLD is actually resolved rather than merely registered.
| Month | Operational registrars | DNS queries (UDP) | RDAP queries | Creates | Deletes | Renews |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2017 | 2,427 | 796.51B | 0 | 368,606,033 | 513,072 | 446,181 |
| Nov 2017 | 2,423 | 698.91B | 0 | 333,312,186 | 598,103 | 439,994 |
| Oct 2017 | 2,868 | 713.50B | 0 | 275,344,725 | 411,133 | 437,474 |
| Sep 2017 | 2,870 | 672.85B | 0 | 280,169,658 | 339,729 | 409,903 |
| Aug 2017 | 2,868 | 714.95B | 0 | 292,677,462 | 364,344 | 450,729 |
| Jul 2017 | 2,866 | 666.25B | 0 | 335,302,898 | 357,507 | 454,192 |
Data currency. Domain counts on this page are from zone files dated and refresh daily. Registrar figures are from ICANN's monthly registry reports for April 2026, which ICANN publishes about three months in arrears; zone files contain no registrar information, so no fresher source exists. Full detail on methodology and live pipeline status.