Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2014-07 · The Crown in right of the State of Victoria, represented by its Department of State Development, Business and Innovation

.melbourne TLD stats

.melbourne held 6,422 names in January 2025, as The Crown in right of the State of Victoria, represented by its Department of State Development, Business and Innovation reported to ICANN; its zone file on 13 Oct 2026 carried 4,824. 32 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, Dreamscape Networks International Pte Ltd, held 20.2%.

6,422
names, January 2025, registry-reported
4,824
in the zone file, 13 Oct 2026
32
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, October 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 September 2015, 12 registrars held 10 or more .melbourne names and the largest held 48%; by its eleventh, to September 2025, 16 did and the largest held 19%.

  1. 1 · to Sep 20158,3531248%
  2. 2 · to Sep 20169,5111749%
  3. 3 · to Sep 201710,4211945%
  4. 4 · to Sep 201810,1562041%
  5. 5 · to Sep 20197,9522042%
  6. 6 · to Sep 20207,1841839%
  7. 7 · to Sep 20217,1612037%
  8. 8 · to Sep 20226,8091729%
  9. 9 · to Sep 20236,4841826%
  10. 10 · to Sep 20246,6511621%
  11. 11 · to Sep 20256,0811619%

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

Dreamscape Networks International Pte Ltd held 20.2% of .melbourne names in January 2025; the largest five together held 82.2%.

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

Cross-checkThe registry reported 6,422 names for Jan 2025; the zone on Oct 13, 2026 held 1,598 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
+3
left it
−2
changed nameservers
5
Net
+1
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 13, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 4,824 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers400.8%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers140.3%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers3,00862.4%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name1,76236.5%

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: 0.6%. 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 Jul 2014 to Sep 2014; general registration Oct 2014.

everything else