Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2014-05 · Radix

.host TLD stats

.host held 24,673 names in September 2024, as Radix reported to ICANN; its zone file on 13 Oct 2026 carried 25,842. 180 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, NameCheap, Inc., held 32.3%. .host fell by about half in its seventh year, from 95,674 to 41,803.

24,673
names, September 2024, registry-reported
25,842
in the zone file, 13 Oct 2026
180
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, August 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 July 2015, 41 registrars held 10 or more .host names and the largest held 16%; by its eleventh, to July 2025, 80 did and the largest held 24%.

  1. 1 · to Jul 20153,8874116%
  2. 2 · to Jul 201636,3415229%
  3. 3 · to Jul 201764,5736034%
  4. 4 · to Jul 201852,3645759%
  5. 5 · to Jul 2019154,3736467%
  6. 6 · to Jul 202095,6747051%
  7. 7 · to Jul 202141,8036729%
  8. 8 · to Jul 202239,7957023%
  9. 9 · to Jul 202331,7308031%
  10. 10 · to Jul 202426,1278232%
  11. 11 · to Jul 202530,6178024%

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

September 2024

NameCheap, Inc. held 32.3% of .host names in September 2024; the largest five together held 59.8%.

Shares add to 100%. From the registry's report for September 2024.

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .host among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 3 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 24,673 names for Sep 2024; the zone on Oct 13, 2026 held 1,169 more. The two are counted differently and 25 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
+25
left it
−16
changed nameservers
30
Net
+9
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 13, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 25,842 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers3711.4%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers2390.9%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers21,05981.5%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name4,17316.1%

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.

how many names, month by month

to
Sep 2024 to Sep 2024

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

everything else