With 360 million domains registered, finding an available .com for your brand is harder than ever. Here's the data on where domains stand in 2026.
- 360M+ total registered domains worldwide
- .com holds 44% market share with ~160M registrations
- 20% annual growth in .ai domain registrations (AI startup boom)
- 12,000+ new domains registered every hour
- 95% of Fortune 500 companies use .com for their primary domain
Where Domains Are Going
The .com namespace is effectively saturated - any dictionary word combination you can think of is registered. New gTLDs like .io, .ai, .app, and .dev are growing rapidly among startups. The .ai TLD has exploded due to the AI boom, with a 20% annual growth rate. ccTLDs (country-code domains like .co.uk, .de, .ca) remain strong in their local markets.