35+ Must-Know Domain Name Statistics

35+ Must - Know Domain Name Statistics gTLD - Generic Top - level Domains ( .com ; .org ; .net ; .info , etc ) tTLD - Test Top - Level Domains ( .example ; .invalid ; .localhost ; .test ) 11 .com ? .com 37 % 160.9 Million ARPA - Infrastructure Top - Level Domain Most Popular Domain Extension is.com .net 3.26 % 5 Types of TLDs $ 10-12 Average Price of a New Domain Domains With a .com Extension .org 2.57 % When they forget the extension , people are 3.8 times more likely to assume it is.com 126.9 million domains registered in the US = 19.77 % of all domains . .tk 4.29 % Domain name stats show that .surf is the most abused TLD Research done by Spamhaus shows that 72.3 % of domains with .surf extensions are " bad " - spammy , malicious , etc. Revenue in US domain sales will reach 8.6 billion in 2023 For a Domain Highest Price Paid $ 30mm source : domainwheel.com 33,000 new domain name registrations every day avg . length of a.com 13.5 characters STLD - Sponsored Top - level Domains others 52.88 % llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.co.uk Longest Domain Name Has 64 Characters .......... ccTLD - Country Code Top - level Domains ( .us ; .es ; .fr ; .it , etc ) Top Level Domain .com .net Most trusted domain extension is.com A 1,500 - people study conducted by Growth Badger showed that .com is still the most trusted extension . .biz 350.5 Million Registered Domains .intro .org of all domains ABC.com All three-lettered.com domains are already registered . The last one was snatched in 1997 $ 12.99 $ 14.99 $ 9.99 .flsmidth and.doosan are the least common domain extensions , with 0 registered domains $ 11.99 $ 9.99 .com , .org .net , etc. There are 1,602 TLD extensions have 43 % Domain names with new TLDs are generally pricier to register - while.com is $ 11.99 , .build is $ 99.99 Registration Privacy e generic extensions Adu WEB Renewal 2023 $ 19.99 Most popular domain registrar is GoDaddy $ 19.99 $ 21.99 $ 21.99 $ 19.99 6 avg.name on top 5 sites is six letters Google google.com was accidentally sold for $ 12 in 2015 There are 340 country TLDs Symbolics.com , the first domain ever , was registered on March 15 , 1985 Only around 15,000 domain names were registered by 1992 $ 15.00 Country Extension Stats 16. 40 % of all domains have country extensions ( .uk , .cn , .de , etc. ) [ 5 ] $ 15.00 $ 15.00 .cn is the thrid most popular extension , with 4.14 % of the total TLDs Tokelau , a tiny New Zealand territory , has only 1,411 residents , but 4.23 % of all global domains have a .tk extension . For More Details Visit : Domainwheel.com/domain-name-statistics/ $ 15.00 The number of ccTLDs fell by 1.3 % between second and third quarter of 2022 $ 15.00 Most of the first 100 domains ever registered were brands - Northrop , Xerox , HP , etc. $ $ 11,000,000 Elon Musk paid $ 11 million for the tesla.com The most frequent starting letter for domains is S 0