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!
