Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2014-08 · Innovation Service

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Sep 2016 to Aug 2026
Names in the zone
179,826
Oct 13, 2026, 01:14 UTC · registry zone file
Domains under management
219,489
May 2026 · registry report
Last night’s movement
−453
621 in · 1,074 out
Listed for sale
2.8%
4,964 names · of the zone

Cross-checkThe registry reported 219,489 domains under management for May 2026 — −39,663 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
+621
left it
−1,074
changed nameservers
195
Net
−453
Sep 15, 2026 to Oct 13, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 179,826 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers4,9642.8%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers2,2891.3%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers166,31892.5%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name6,2553.5%

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: 0.2%. 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: 198,184 — 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 Sep 2014 to Nov 2014; general registration Nov 2014.

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