Industry stats: How many .au domains are there?

Want to know how many .au domains are out there in the world? Thankfully, the .au Domain Administration (auDA) publishes that info every month.

Every month they share their Registry Monthly Statistics, giving us updated data of all registered .au domains, and a few other interesting stats. The most recent data goes up to November 2025, and here’s what it tells us.

How many .au domains are there? #

The most recent reported total is 4,292,817 domains, roughly 1 for every 6 Australians. It’s not far from the peak all time reported .au domains, which was 4,294,520, reported in August 2025.

The total number of .au domains increased every month throughout 2025 until September, and has decreased slightly every month since then. Of the total 4.29 million .au domains, 65,586 were created in the last month.

How many new .au domains were added in the last year? #

In the last year there has been a 1.3% increase in .au domains, with 54,013 more .au domains than there were this time 12 months ago. It’s been almost two years since we’ve seen growth rates that high, which is a good sign.

The 1.3% increase shows a much higher year-on-year growth rate than the previous year (0.2%), and could indicate that the all-time peak total may be surpassed again in the coming months.

  • Unsurprisingly, com.au domains are the most popular choice, with a total of 3,211,297 com.au domains. This was an increase of 1.4% year-on-year (almost identical to the total .au domain growth at 1.3%), and a 0.35% increase from the previous month.
  • The second most popular option is to use just .au directly. Of all significant top level domains, .au has grown in popularity the most year-on-year with 2.7% growth. There are currently 777,597 .au direct domains registered.
  • The third most popular namespace is net.au, which has seen the biggest decrease in the last 12 months, down -5.8%
  • Of the other most common domain choices, asn.au and org.au experienced decreases in the past year (-4.3% and -0.9% respectively).
  • gov.au domains, which can only be registered by government entities, grew 1.1% over the last year, with a total of 6,592 gov.au domains currently registered.
  • edu.au domains (exclusive to education and training providers), grew 0.22% year-on-year, with 17,474 currently registered.
  • id.au showed no significant movement year-on-year, with 12,019 domains currently registered, only 1 domain now than there were this time last year.

How long are most .au domains licensed for? #

Across both new domain license registrations and domain renewals, the most popular domain licence period is by far a one year with 163,000 domains licensed. Two year licence periods are the second most common with 42,006 licenses, almost a quarter of the frequency of one year periods. Three and five year license periods are the third and fourth most popular (10,031 and 6,729), with four year periods being the least popular with 876.

Credit: .au Domain Administration Ltd

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