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The fourth quarter of 2023 closed with 359.8 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs) :
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Domain name registrations increased by 8.9 million, or 2.5%, year over year.
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The .com and .net TLDs had a combined total of 172.7 million domain name registrations in the domain name base at the end of the fourth quarter of 2023 :
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The .com domain name base totaled 159.6 million domain name registrations.
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The .net domain name base totaled 13.1 million domain name registrations.
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The .com and .net TLDs had a combined decrease of 1.0 million domain name registrations, or 0.6%, year over year.
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Total New gTLDs (ngTLD) domain name registrations were 31,7 million at the end of 2023.
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ngTLDs represented 8.8% of the all domains registered at the end of 2023
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Total country-code TLD (ccTLD) domain name registrations were 138.3 million at the end of the fourth quarter of 2023 :
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ccTLDs increased by 5.3 million domain name registrations, or 4.0%, year over year.