The first quarter of 2022 closed with 350.5 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains, an increase of 8.8 million domain name registrations, or 2.6%, compared to the fourth quarter of 2021. Domain name registrations have increased by 13.2 million, or 3.9%, year over year.
The .com and .net TLDs had a combined total of 174.7 million domain name registrations in the domain name base3 at the end of the first quarter of 2022, an increase of 1.2 million domain name registrations, or 0.7%, compared to the fourth quarter of 2021. The .com and .net TLDs had a combined increase of 6.7 million domain name registrations, or 4.0%, year over year. As of March 31, 2022, the .com domain name base totaled 161.3 million domain name registrations, and the .net domain name base totaled 13.4 million domain name registrations.
Total country-code TLD domain name registrations were 133.4 million at the end of the first quarter of 2022, an increase of 6.0 million domain name registrations, or 4.7%, compared to the fourth quarter of 2021. ccTLDs increased by 3.1 million domain name registrations, or 2.4%, year-over-year
Total new-generic TLD domain name registrations were 26.3 million at the end of the first quarter of 2022, an increase of 1.6 million domain name registrations, or 6.6%, compared to the fourth quarter of 2021. ngTLDs increased by 3.5 million domain name registrations, or 15.3%, year over year.
TOP 10 LARGEST TLDS BY NUMBER OF REPORTED DOMAIN NAMES
TOP 10 LARGEST CCTLDs BY NUMBER OF REPORTED DOMAIN NAMES
ngTLDS AS PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL TLDS
GEOGRAPHICAL ngTLDs AS PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL CORRESPONDING GEOGRAPHICAL TLDs