New registrations this month
3.88M domains/month
- May 25 3.24M
- Jun 25 3.4M
- Jul 25 3.43M
- Aug 25 3.33M
- Sep 25 3.32M
- Oct 25 3.41M
- Nov 25 3.41M
- Dec 25 3.37M
- Jan 26 3.46M
- Feb 26 3.23M
- Mar 26 4M
- Apr 26 3.88M
Generic extension · Broad
.com
A familiar general-purpose extension that can suit businesses, products, publications and long-term brands.
- RegistryVeriSign Global Registry Services
- Metrics held26
- With history20
Signal profile
- Brevity 94
- Namespace depth 23
- RDAP readiness 100
- DNSSEC 100
- NS breadth 100
- Registration scale 99
- Domains
- 168.32M domains
- Active registrars
- 2,898 registrar accounts
- DNS queries
- 16.21T queries/month
Everything on record
26 reported metrics for .com
Grouped as the registry reports them. Each figure carries its source, when it was observed and a quality grade, and any metric with a trend can be opened for its full history.
Attempted registrations
557.86M attempts/month
- May 25 496.51M
- Jun 25 476.94M
- Jul 25 545.75M
- Aug 25 560.76M
- Sep 25 534.33M
- Oct 25 513.26M
- Nov 25 505.07M
- Dec 25 541.72M
- Jan 26 540.64M
- Feb 26 527.74M
- Mar 26 524.71M
- Apr 26 557.86M
Deletions this month
3.05M domains/month
- May 25 3.29M
- Jun 25 3.03M
- Jul 25 3.13M
- Aug 25 3.1M
- Sep 25 2.9M
- Oct 25 3.04M
- Nov 25 2.78M
- Dec 25 2.96M
- Jan 26 3.04M
- Feb 26 2.69M
- Mar 26 2.74M
- Apr 26 3.05M
Multi-year registration share
9.47% ratio
Registered nameservers
1.82M nameservers
- May 25 1.84M
- Jun 25 1.85M
- Jul 25 1.84M
- Aug 25 1.84M
- Sep 25 1.84M
- Oct 25 1.85M
- Nov 25 1.86M
- Dec 25 1.85M
- Jan 26 1.85M
- Feb 26 1.84M
- Mar 26 1.83M
- Apr 26 1.82M
Renewals this month
8.55M domains/month
- May 25 8.47M
- Jun 25 8.06M
- Jul 25 8.24M
- Aug 25 8.01M
- Sep 25 7.79M
- Oct 25 8.06M
- Nov 25 7.75M
- Dec 25 8.08M
- Jan 26 8.63M
- Feb 26 7.63M
- Mar 26 9.06M
- Apr 26 8.55M
Restores this month
9,219 domains/month
- May 25 9,233
- Jun 25 8,540
- Jul 25 9,395
- Aug 25 8,812
- Sep 25 9,581
- Oct 25 9,420
- Nov 25 8,345
- Dec 25 8,266
- Jan 26 10.1K
- Feb 26 7,123
- Mar 26 9,439
- Apr 26 9,219
Successful inbound transfers
542.4K transfers/month
- May 25 527.4K
- Jun 25 476.3K
- Jul 25 435.8K
- Aug 25 473.1K
- Sep 25 421.6K
- Oct 25 477.2K
- Nov 25 522.6K
- Dec 25 543.3K
- Jan 26 567.9K
- Feb 26 525.9K
- Mar 26 661.6K
- Apr 26 542.4K
Registered domains
168.32M domains
- May 25 161.14M
- Jun 25 161.56M
- Jul 25 162.01M
- Aug 25 162.36M
- Sep 25 162.88M
- Oct 25 163.49M
- Nov 25 164.14M
- Dec 25 164.58M
- Jan 26 165.27M
- Feb 26 165.92M
- Mar 26 167.31M
- Apr 26 168.32M
Registry contract signed
1 Dec 2012 date
Registry contract terminated
No
Delegated to the root
1 Jan 1985 date
Contracted registry operator
VeriSign, Inc.
Specification 13 brand TLD
No
Third-level registration
No
Registrar accounts with domains
2,898 registrar accounts
- May 25 2,901
- Jun 25 2,903
- Jul 25 2,903
- Aug 25 2,900
- Sep 25 2,903
- Oct 25 2,894
- Nov 25 2,893
- Dec 25 2,897
- Jan 26 2,900
- Feb 26 2,899
- Mar 26 2,899
- Apr 26 2,898
Registrar concentration
9.89% index
- May 25 10.7%
- Jun 25 10.61%
- Jul 25 10.53%
- Aug 25 10.45%
- Sep 25 10.37%
- Oct 25 10.3%
- Nov 25 10.21%
- Dec 25 10.16%
- Jan 26 10.11%
- Feb 26 10.07%
- Mar 26 9.98%
- Apr 26 9.89%
Reporting registrar accounts
2,936 registrar accounts
- May 25 2,932
- Jun 25 2,932
- Jul 25 2,932
- Aug 25 2,934
- Sep 25 2,937
- Oct 25 2,938
- Nov 25 2,937
- Dec 25 2,929
- Jan 26 2,932
- Feb 26 2,934
- Mar 26 2,938
- Apr 26 2,936
Top five registrar share
46.19% ratio
Largest registrar share
29.21% ratio
DNS queries received
16.21T queries/month
- May 25 10.94T
- Jun 25 10.74T
- Jul 25 11.68T
- Aug 25 11.57T
- Sep 25 11.38T
- Oct 25 12.18T
- Nov 25 12.48T
- Dec 25 13.38T
- Jan 26 13.97T
- Feb 26 13.14T
- Mar 26 15.19T
- Apr 26 16.21T
DNS response ratio
99.97% ratio
- May 25 99.96%
- Jun 25 99.95%
- Jul 25 99.95%
- Aug 25 99.96%
- Sep 25 99.96%
- Oct 25 99.96%
- Nov 25 99.95%
- Dec 25 99.97%
- Jan 26 99.97%
- Feb 26 99.97%
- Mar 26 99.97%
- Apr 26 99.97%
Operational registrars
2,932 registrars
- May 25 2,929
- Jun 25 2,929
- Jul 25 2,930
- Aug 25 2,930
- Sep 25 2,933
- Oct 25 2,924
- Nov 25 2,924
- Dec 25 2,927
- Jan 26 2,930
- Feb 26 2,931
- Mar 26 2,933
- Apr 26 2,932
Registration-data queries
36.96B queries/month
- May 25 26.85B
- Jun 25 26.93B
- Jul 25 28.71B
- Aug 25 29.81B
- Sep 25 30.11B
- Oct 25 30.36B
- Nov 25 34.92B
- Dec 25 37.82B
- Jan 26 38.03B
- Feb 26 30.51B
- Mar 26 42.69B
- Apr 26 36.96B
Registry availability checks
2.62B commands/month
- May 25 2.27B
- Jun 25 2.2B
- Jul 25 2.08B
- Aug 25 2.07B
- Sep 25 2.01B
- Oct 25 2.09B
- Nov 25 2.08B
- Dec 25 2.2B
- Jan 26 2.55B
- Feb 26 2.53B
- Mar 26 2.8B
- Apr 26 2.62B
Registry create commands
557.86M commands/month
- May 25 496.51M
- Jun 25 476.94M
- Jul 25 545.75M
- Aug 25 560.76M
- Sep 25 534.33M
- Oct 25 513.26M
- Nov 25 505.07M
- Dec 25 541.72M
- Jan 26 540.64M
- Feb 26 527.74M
- Mar 26 524.71M
- Apr 26 557.86M
Root zone and registry agreement
The facts that do not change monthly
Delegation, operator and protocol support, taken from the IANA root zone and the ICANN registry agreement data.
- Registry manager
- VeriSign Global Registry Services
- Registry operator
- VeriSign, Inc.
- Delegated to the root
- 1 January 1985
- Registry contract signed
- 1 December 2012
- Authoritative nameservers
- 13
- DNSSEC signed
- Yes
- RDAP available
- Yes
- Internationalised label
- No
- Third-level registration
- No
- Specification 13 brand TLD
- No
IANA Root Zone Database
ICANN registry agreement
ICANN gTLD contract data
ICANN gTLD contract data
IANA root zone
Root delegation DS record
IANA RDAP bootstrap registry
IANA root zone
ICANN registry agreement
ICANN registry agreement
Namespace beneath .com
1 ICANN boundary rules Registration boundaries recognised beneath this TLD.
1,115 Private boundary rules Privately operated suffixes, such as hosting subdomains.
Where this comes from
Every figure is traceable
Nothing on this page is estimated or modelled. Each metric names the source it came from and the month it was observed, and a metric with no observation is shown as unknown rather than filled with a zero.
- ICANN gTLD Registry Agreement Data View source
- ICANN Monthly Registry Activity Reports View source
- ICANN Monthly Registry Reports View source
- TLD registry-published statistics View source
Enrichment snapshot generated . Registry reporting runs a month or two behind, so the newest observation is rarely this month.
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