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August 10th, 2023 On May 3rd, 2023, Google opened
up the You can find a number of commercial services
selling domain name statistics, but many of them
provide incorrect, inflated, limited, or outdated
data, often derived from passive DNS traffic
analysis.1 Based on the
zone file access I already had from various previous DNS-related analyses, I figured I
could just compile those numbers myself -- at least
for the generic TLDs. I then went onto a bit of a
treasure hunt for ccTLD statistics, which remains
infuriatingly unregulated, inconsistent, and tedious.
Poking around the various registries and registrars,
attempting a bunch of I then glued together a bit of shell code to periodically collect the count of domains per TLD, jammed the output into ChartJS (look, Ma, I'm a frontend dev now!) and got myself some stats: These percentages aren't quite accurate, since I
don't have stats for all TLDs, but as of
early August 2023, I do cover over 86% of all TLDs.
For each of those, I also have individual charts that
track their growth over time, for example for
Or for the aforementioned You can find links to the graphs for all of the TLDs for which I could find data here; there's also a page with all TLDs sorted by domain count. The scripts as well as the individual data and HTML files are also pushed to this GitHub repository. While similar sites exist, I always find it useful to crunch the numbers myself (and retain full access to all data). If you know of other TLDs that provide zone files or domain counts, please let me know, and I'll be happy to add them. August 10th, 2023 1) For example, as of 2023-08-09,
"Domain Name Stat" lists over
250 million names under Links: |