Verisign (NASDAQ) VRSN released their Domain Name Industry Brief for Q2 2024. The second quarter of 2024 closed with 362.4 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), unchanged compared to the first quarter of 2024. Domain name registrations increased by 5.8 million, or 1.6%, year over year.
From the report:
The .com and .net TLDs had a combined total of 170.6 million domain name registrations in the domain name base at the end of the second quarter of 2024, a decrease of 1.8 million domain name registrations, or 1.1%, compared to the first quarter of 2024.
The .com and .net TLDs had a combined decrease of 3.8 million domain name registrations, or 2.2%, year over year. As of June 30, 2024, the .com domain name base totaled 157.6 million domain name registrations and the .net domain name base totaled 13.0 million domain name registrations.
New .com and .net domain name registrations totaled 9.2 million at the end of the second quarter of 2024, compared to 10.2 million domain name registrations at the end of the second quarter of 2023. The preliminary combined renewal percentage for the .com and .net TLDs is 72.6% for the second quarter of 2024.