Friday, April 9, 2021

How Many .COM Domains Are Registered Each Day

 As of today, there are 158,449,602 .COM domains registered.  Four days ago, on April 5, 2021, there were 158,124,528 .COM domains registered.  That represents a registration rate of 81,269/day over the last four days.  Is that a lot?  It is!  The average number of .COM domains registered/day since September 25, 2000 has averaged 18,724 .COM domains/day.  Here are some data points for reference:


Definitely a lot of .COM domains were registered over the last few days, but it's also probably too small a sample size to mean much.  Registration shows no signs of slowing though, after more than 20 years of registrations!


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