Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2013-12 · Binky Moon, LLC

.shoes TLD stats

.shoes held 4,058 names in September 2025, as Binky Moon, LLC reported to ICANN; its zone file on 14 Oct 2026 carried 3,761. 118 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, GoDaddy.com, LLC, held 21.7%.

4,058
names, September 2025, registry-reported
3,761
in the zone file, 14 Oct 2026
118
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, February 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 14 Oct 2026, a different count taken on one night.

Year by year since launch, as the registry reported it

In its first year, to January 2015, 47 registrars held 10 or more .shoes names and the largest held 26%; by its twelfth, to January 2026, 53 did and the largest held 22%.

  1. 1 · to Jan 20155,6364726%
  2. 2 · to Jan 20165,8554930%
  3. 3 · to Jan 20175,7074830%
  4. 4 · to Jan 20185,2955127%
  5. 5 · to Jan 20195,0204923%
  6. 6 · to Jan 20204,8535023%
  7. 7 · to Jan 20214,8764922%
  8. 8 · to Jan 20224,9965120%
  9. 9 · to Jan 20234,6335620%
  10. 10 · to Jan 20244,4475220%
  11. 11 · to Jan 20254,2905421%
  12. 12 · to Jan 20264,0155322%

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 2025

GoDaddy.com, LLC held 21.7% of .shoes names in September 2025; the largest five together held 41.4%.

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

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .shoes among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 11 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 4,058 names for Sep 2025; the zone on Oct 14, 2026 held 297 fewer. The two are counted differently and 13 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 14, 2026
What moved · on Oct 14, 2026
entered the zone
+15
left it
−1
changed nameservers
4
Net
+14
Sep 15, 2026 to Oct 14, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 3,761 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers1293.4%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers260.7%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers2,93778.1%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name66917.8%

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: 0.2%. List 2026.09.7+psl4b673689.

Counted from the registry’s own zone file on the night of Oct 14, 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 2025 to Sep 2025

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Sunrise Dec 2013 to Feb 2014; general registration Feb 2014.

everything else