Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2014-02 · Identity Digital Domains Limited

.blue TLD stats

.blue held 18,271 names in January 2025, as Identity Digital Domains Limited reported to ICANN; its zone file on 13 Oct 2026 carried 15,008. 177 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, NameCheap, Inc., held 11.2%. .blue fell by about half in its fourth year, from 38,880 to 12,763.

18,271
names, January 2025, registry-reported
15,008
in the zone file, 13 Oct 2026
177
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, April 2014

Names on the books at the end of each year since general availability, from the registry's monthly reports to ICANN, through May 2026. The marked point is the zone count of 13 Oct 2026, a different count taken on one night.

Year by year since launch, as the registry reported it

In its first year, to March 2015, 39 registrars held 10 or more .blue names and the largest held 66%; by its twelfth, to March 2026, 71 did and the largest held 12%.

  1. 1 · to Mar 201513,9693966%
  2. 2 · to Mar 201642,3184573%
  3. 3 · to Mar 201738,8805269%
  4. 4 · to Mar 201812,7635728%
  5. 5 · to Mar 201913,9285625%
  6. 6 · to Mar 202018,2656238%
  7. 7 · to Mar 202115,9606125%
  8. 8 · to Mar 202214,8106217%
  9. 9 · to Mar 202314,2226316%
  10. 10 · to Mar 202415,4936814%
  11. 11 · to Mar 202518,5357511%
  12. 12 · to Mar 202616,1557112%

Year 1 starts at general availability and each year is labelled by the month it ends. Registrars with 10 or more names and the largest registrar's share are read at that month. A year with fewer than nine monthly reports is left blank.

Who sells it

January 2025

NameCheap, Inc. held 11.2% of .blue names in January 2025; the largest five together held 48.0%.

Shares add to 100%. From the registry's report for January 2025.

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .blue among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 4 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 18,271 names for Jan 2025; the zone on Oct 13, 2026 held 3,263 fewer. The two are counted differently and 21 months apart: a registered name that is not delegated never appears in the zone, and a zone file is read on one night, a report at a month's end.

last night, in detail

Oct 13, 2026
What moved · on Oct 13, 2026
entered the zone
+14
left it
−4
changed nameservers
9
Net
+10
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 13, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 15,008 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers4893.3%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers990.7%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers12,88585.9%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name1,53510.2%

Read from each name’s nameservers on the night shown. Listed and parked are counted separately.

How we classify
A name takes the row its nameservers match on our provider list. Verification nameservers sit beside a name’s other nameservers, so they overlap the rows above: 0.4%. List 2026.09.7+psl4b673689.

Counted from the registry’s own zone file on the night of Oct 13, 2026. A zone count is not domains under management: a registered name that is not delegated never appears in the zone, and a name on hold leaves the zone while it stays registered. The two numbers will not agree, and neither is wrong.

how many names, month by month

to
Jan 2025 to Jan 2025

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Sunrise Mar 2014 to Apr 2014; general registration Apr 2014.

everything else