The data presented in the Domain Name Industry Brief quarterly reports and dashboards — including quarter-over-quarter, year-over-year and other metrics — reflects information available to DNIB.com at the time of preparation and may incorporate changes and adjustments to previously published periods based on additional information received since the prior publication to more accurately reflect domain name registrations, renewals or other data.
The data in these reports and dashboards may not include data for all country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) or generic top-level domain (gTLD) extensions delegated to the root zone, as it includes only the data available at the time of preparation. Top-level domains (TLDs) operating with lifecycle rules not generally comparable to other TLDs have been excluded from all applicable calculations and historical data. ccTLD data cited in reports and dashboards includes related internationalized TLDs and renewal information is only reported when sufficient data is available. Some numbers may reflect standard rounding and some charts feature line breaks for display considerations. For information on periodic updates to available data and/or calculations, see our Data Update Notes below.
The .com and .net domain name base is the active zone, plus the domain names registered but not configured for use plus the domain names in client or server hold status. This is the same methodology used to report .com and .net domain name registration data in Verisign’s SEC filings. Quarterly renewal percentages for .com and .net published in the DNIB Quarterly Report are estimates based on data available at the time of the report’s preparation. Renewal percentage information in the DNIB.com dashboards is published after the renewal grace period ends and is therefore final.
For gTLD and ccTLD data with ZookNIC cited as a source, the ZookNIC analysis uses a comparison of domain name root zone file changes supplemented with other authoritative data sources and independent approximations. Quarterly renewal percentages for the TLDs published in the DNIB Quarterly Report, other than .com and .net, are estimates based on the prior quarter’s final renewal percentages or, if unavailable, the most recent information. Renewal percentage information, when available, in the DNIB.com dashboards is published after the renewal grace period ends and is therefore final. For more information, see ZookNIC.com.
Data Update Notes
July 2024
Starting with the Q1 2024 report, the DNIB Quarterly Report adds new information and aligns the report’s content more closely to the DNIB.com dashboards. New information includes quarterly renewal percentages for TLD groups and each of the top 10 ccTLDs and gTLDs, when available, and summary information on other legacy gTLDs as a group. Analysis of new gTLDs has been expanded to include all gTLDs, adding analysis of the 10 largest gTLDs by number of reported domain names while continuing to offer key statistics on legacy and new gTLDs. Renewal percentages in the quarterly report are estimates based on information available at the time of preparation.
September 2023
Starting with the June 2023 launch of the DNIB.com dashboards, and as of Vol. 20, Issue 3 of the Domain Name Industry Brief Quarterly Report, the expanded DNIB data set includes information on 16 top-level domains (TLDs) not included in previous quarterly reports. Six newly included ccTLDs are: .aq, .ax, .cw, .ss, .su and .sx. Ten newly included gTLDs are: .aero, .asia, .cat, .coop, .gov, .museum, .pro, .tel, .travel and .xxx. Applicable current and historical data presented in dashboards and this edition of the quarterly report have been adjusted accordingly, and applicable quarterly and year-over-year trends have been calculated using those adjusted figures. More information is available in a DNIB.com article.
April 2022
As of Vol. 19, Issue 1 of The Domain Name Industry Brief Quarterly Report, the .tk, .cf, .ga, .gq and .ml ccTLDs operated by Freenom are excluded from all applicable calculations. Applicable quarterly and year-over-year trends have been calculated relative to historical figures that also have been adjusted to exclude these five ccTLDs.