On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 04:37:36PM -0400, John Levine wrote:
> There's about 200 million registered domain names ...
FWIW, I count 363 million registered delegations, in just the
DNSSEC-signed TLDs:
https://stats.dnssec-tools.org/#/?top=tlds&tld_tab=3
Though, admittedly the not counted unsigned ccTLDs have a comparatively
small registration count:
ae al ao aq as ba bb bf bi bo bs cd cf cg ck cm cu cv cw dj do eg
et fk ga gb ge gf gh gm gp gq gt gu hm im iq jm jo kh km kn kp mh mk
ml mo mp mq mt mv mw mz ne ng ni np nr om pa pf pg pk pn ps qa sd sl
sm so st sv sy sz tc td tg tj tk to va vg vi xn--d1alf xn--fzc2c9e2c
xn--j1amh xn--lgbbat1ad8j xn--mgb9awbf xn--mgba3a4f16a xn--mgbaam7a8h
xn--mgbc0a9azcg xn--mgbpl2fh xn--mgbtx2b xn--mix891f xn--node xn--ogbpf8fl
xn--wgbl6a xn--xkc2al3hye2a xn--ygbi2ammx ye zw
So perhaps just O(1 million) or so more. Which is consistent with:
https://www.dnib.com/dashboards/global-domain-name-base-trends
reporting 364.3 million. The undercount is quite concentrated in just a
few ccTLDs, the ".ng" ccTLD alone is reportedly ~233k domains, that's
perhaps the largest.
Caveat, DNIB does not seem to have a count of ".tk" domains, not sure
what the status of that is post Freenom exit, IIRC .tk used to have
north of 20M domains.
While the dominant gTLDs (.com, .org, .net) and "first world" ccTLDs
have seen a small net decline in registrations lately, the overall
number is mostly steady to growing slowly.
--
Viktor.
