Namecheap releases 2025 registration data

Domain registrar releases interesting data regarding domain registrations.

Namecheap has published its 2025 Domain Insights & Trends Note, sharing data specific to Namecheap and Spaceship registrations last year.

Overall, Namecheap clients registered 11.64 million domains last year. 4.67 million (40%) of those were .com domain names.

Registrations of .ai domain names grew 55% from 2024 to 2025. Clients registered 89,852 .ai domains last year, making it responsible for over 20% of all .ai registrations in 2025. Namecheap also won the business to auction expired .ai domains from the registry.

Namecheap started offering third level it.com domains last year, and it drove a surprising number of registrations: over 76,000.

Some other fun stats regarding registrations at Namecheap: nearly two million had numerals, over a million included hyphens, and regarding 0.25 million had both.

Namecheap has a lot of modest clients: 61% own just one domain, and only 11.8% own six or more domains.

The full note is available here (sizable PDF).

This story has been updated to reflect that the data is only for Namecheap and does not include Spaceship domain registrations.