Today we released the latest issue of The Domain Name Industry Brief, which shows that the third quarter of 2021 closed with 364.6 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains, or a decrease of 2.7 million domain name registrations, or 0.7%, compared to the second quarter of 2021.1, 2 Domain name registrations were down 2.8 million, or 0.7%, year-over-year.1, 2 Domain name registrations were down 6.1 million, or 1.6%, year-over-year.
Check out the latest issue of The Domain Name Industry Brief to see domain name statistics for Q3 2021, including:

This quarter’s Domain Name Industry Brief also includes an overview of ongoing community work to mitigate DNS security threats.
To view past issues of The Domain Name Industry Brief, visit verisign.com/dnibarchives.
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