The third quarter of 2019 closed with 359.8 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 5.1 million domain name registrations, or 1.4 percent, compared to the second quarter of 2019. Domain name registrations have grown by 17.4 million, or 5.1 percent, year over year. read more
The above is for 2019 up to Quarter 3. Domain names are online assets. And, today whatever is built online – it’s built on a domain name. A website cannot exist without a domain name.
Here is a list of all domain names registered across all TLDs showing data from the 2010 Quarter 4 report to the 2019 Quarter 3 report. This data has been extracted from VeriSign’s archive
Here is the table for a quick reference:
Quarter 4 report of 2019 from Verisign is still not available at its website. But, as per domain name stats link there are 416 million domains in existence. That may change with the upcoming deletes.
But, it’s safe to say that the internet domain names from 2010 to today has doubled. During the last ten years most of the businesses gone online. They bought the domain to represent their company online. Your domain name is like an online representative you assigned to communicate with the world 24/7 and 360 days.