VeriSign, Inc. announced that approximately 1.7 million domain name registrations were added to the internet in the fourth quarter of 2017, bringing the total number of domain name registrations to approximately 332.4 million across all top-level domains (TLDs).

Key highlights:

• New .com and .net domain name registrations totaled 9.0 million during the fourth quarter of 2017 compared to 8.8 million for the fourth quarter in 2016.
• The increase of approximately 1.7 million domain name registrations globally equates to a growth rate of 0.5 percent over the third quarter of 2017^1,2. 
• Domain name registrations have grown by 3.1 million, or 0.9 percent, year over year^{1, 2}.
• The .com and .net TLDs had a combined total of approximately 146.4 million domain name registrations in the domain name base³at the end of the fourth quarter of 2017. This represents a 2.9 percent increase year over year.
• As of Dec. 31, 2017, the .com domain name base totaled 131.9 million domain name registrations, while the .net domain name base totaled 14.5 million domain name registrations.

Verisign publishes the Domain Name Industry Brief to provide internet users throughout the world with statistical and analytical research and data on the domain name industry. The first quarter 2017 Domain Name Industry Brief, as well as previous reports, can be obtained at Verisign.com/DNIB.