There are now more than 100 million .COM domain names according to separate statistics revealed by RegistrarStats and HosterStats.

The 100 million mark was passed in January both websites revealed in their counts of various top level domain name registrations. According to RegistrarStats, there were a total of 100,052,046 domains while HosterStats claimed there were a total of 100,045,666 registrations on 1 February out of a total base of 134,613,318 for all generic Top Level Domains.

Verisign publicly announce combined domain name registrations for .COM and .NET in their quarterly reports, but do not separate out individual statistics.

Meanwhile the latest publicly available .COM Registry Monthly Report that Verisign is obliged to prepare for ICANN notes that there were a total of 100,540,971 domain names in the .COM zone as of 31 October 2011.

The difference was explained by DomainIncite that said “domains which do not have name servers or are in special registry status codes such as Pending Delete do not show up in the zone file.”

The next gTLD milestone to be passed is likely to be .ORG, which could pass the ten million registration mark in May 2012.