Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2014-07 · Binky Moon, LLC

.direct TLD stats

Sep 2016 to Aug 2026
Names in the zone
12,287
Oct 13, 2026, 01:12 UTC · registry zone file
Domains under management
13,786
May 2026 · registry report
Last night’s movement
+6
9 in · 3 out
Listed for sale
4.0%
488 names · of the zone

Cross-checkThe registry reported 13,786 domains under management for May 2026 — −1,499 against last night’s zone. Undelegated and on-hold names never reach the zone, so the two will not agree, and neither is wrong.

last night, in detail

Oct 13, 2026
What moved · on Oct 13, 2026
entered the zone
+9
left it
−3
changed nameservers
15
Net
+6
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 13, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 12,287 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers4884.0%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers900.7%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers10,19483.0%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name1,51512.3%

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: 0.5%. 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.

Aug 2026: 12,284 — third-party estimate; the registry has not published that month yet.

how many names

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Dashed months are third-party estimates. Sunrise Jul 2014 to Sep 2014; general registration Sep 2014.

everything else