Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2014-08 · Google Registry

.how TLD stats

.how held 3,446 names in February 2026, as Google Registry reported to ICANN; its zone file on 13 Oct 2026 carried 3,864. 65 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, Squarespace Domains II LLC, held 22.9%. .how fell by about half in its eighth year, from 8,286 to 4,025.

3,446
names, February 2026, registry-reported
3,864
in the zone file, 13 Oct 2026
65
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, January 2015

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 December 2015, 20 registrars held 10 or more .how names and the largest held 48%; by its eleventh, to December 2025, 30 did and the largest held 23%.

  1. 1 · to Dec 20153,2642048%
  2. 2 · to Dec 20162,4282434%
  3. 3 · to Dec 20174,7252636%
  4. 4 · to Dec 20185,5602732%
  5. 5 · to Dec 20196,5472828%
  6. 6 · to Dec 20207,4222825%
  7. 7 · to Dec 20218,2862923%
  8. 8 · to Dec 20224,0252640%
  9. 9 · to Dec 20233,9912933%
  10. 10 · to Dec 20243,6592927%
  11. 11 · to Dec 20253,4173023%

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

February 2026

Squarespace Domains II LLC held 22.9% of .how names in February 2026; the largest five together held 61.6%.

Shares add to 100%. From the registry's report for February 2026.

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .how among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 13 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 3,446 names for Feb 2026; the zone on Oct 13, 2026 held 418 more. The two are counted differently and 8 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
+3
left it
−1
changed nameservers
3
Net
+2
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 13, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 3,864 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers290.8%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers210.5%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers3,47489.9%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name3408.8%

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: 0.1%. 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
Feb 2026 to Feb 2026

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Sunrise Nov 2014 to Jan 2015; general registration Jan 2015.

everything else