.com zone tops 160 million domains
The .com zone file contained more than 160 million domains for the first time today.
Registry operator Verisign is currently reporting 160,009,277 in the zone, with 162,479,075 .com names registered overall.
Names in the zone file are the ones with nameservers and therefore usable on the internet.
The milestone comes just over five years after the zone passed 150 million names, which happened January 13, 2021, according to my records.
The .com story has been a lumpy one in recent years, as registrars focused on increasing revenue per customer rather than shifting volume, but Verisign seems to have returned to steady growth in recent quarters.
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