Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2014-06 · GoDaddy Registry

.surf TLD stats

.surf held 4,642 names in May 2025, as GoDaddy Registry reported to ICANN; its zone file on 13 Oct 2026 carried 87,665. 85 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, GoDaddy.com, LLC, held 25.9%. .surf fell by about half in its ninth year, from 9,745 to 4,814.

4,642
names, May 2025, registry-reported
87,665
in the zone file, 13 Oct 2026
85
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, September 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 August 2015, 32 registrars held 10 or more .surf names and the largest held 38%; by its eleventh, to August 2025, 42 did and the largest held 25%.

  1. 1 · to Aug 20152,3803238%
  2. 2 · to Aug 20163,8422941%
  3. 3 · to Aug 20172,6133033%
  4. 4 · to Aug 20182,8063332%
  5. 5 · to Aug 20194,3433533%
  6. 6 · to Aug 20207,1933450%
  7. 7 · to Aug 202115,6643956%
  8. 8 · to Aug 20229,7454244%
  9. 9 · to Aug 20234,8144427%
  10. 10 · to Aug 20244,5954527%
  11. 11 · to Aug 20254,7244225%

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

May 2025

GoDaddy.com, LLC held 25.9% of .surf names in May 2025; the largest five together held 62.7%.

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

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .surf 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 4,642 names for May 2025; the zone on Oct 13, 2026 held 83,023 more. The two are counted differently and 17 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
+86
left it
−6
changed nameservers
7
Net
+80
Sep 15, 2026 to Oct 13, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 87,665 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers3890.4%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers680.1%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers86,42398.6%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name7850.9%

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
May 2025 to May 2025

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

everything else