Namecheap, one of the best web hosting providers around today, and the second largest domain registrar, has revealed extensive new findings on the biggest TLDs of 2025.
The company’s 2025 Domain Insights and Trends report examines more than 22 million domains, and perhaps unsurprisingly found the .com TLD was the most popular with 4.6 million domain names registered between 1 January and 31 December 2025.
Despite the proportion of non .com TLDs overtaking .com in 2024, Namecheap says the latter saw a resurgence in 2025 to gain 40.1% of market share, an 11% increase, showing although there are more TLDs than ever before, .com is still the preferred choice.
Top 10 gTLDs
- .com (4,667,345)
- .info (579,916)
- .shop (476,865)
- .site (469,020)
- .xyz (461,777)
- .org (452,567)
- .online (363,353)
- .store (337,407)
- .net (291,862)
- .pro (257,161)
The report also revealed some details about the domain names themselves – including that there were 147 one-letter domain names registered, and 120 domain names 63 characters long, the longest allowed.
Blockchain.ai sold for $405,000
On the Namecheap market, Blockchain.ai was the most expensive sold at auction, the second and third respectively were territory.com at $125,625 and wan.ai at $80.314.
The trends show that while .com TLDs are still the most sought after domains, non .com TLDs are still becoming more and more popular helping companies strengthen their brand identity.
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