Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2014-09 · Binky Moon, LLC

.world TLD stats

.world's zone file carried 427,934 names on 13 Oct 2026. 291 registrars held names in it that month.

427,934
in the zone file, 13 Oct 2026
291
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, 77 registrars held 10 or more .world names and the largest held 29%; by its eleventh, to December 2025, 201 did and the largest held 22%.

  1. 1 · to Dec 201526,5657729%
  2. 2 · to Dec 201634,9808530%
  3. 3 · to Dec 201790,5839329%
  4. 4 · to Dec 2018130,2489925%
  5. 5 · to Dec 2019162,92310722%
  6. 6 · to Dec 2020130,68111736%
  7. 7 · to Dec 2021150,29114043%
  8. 8 · to Dec 2022179,28218043%
  9. 9 · to Dec 2023223,09819340%
  10. 10 · to Dec 2024303,66819832%
  11. 11 · to Dec 2025396,46220122%

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 2026

NameCheap, Inc. held 20.0% of .world names in May 2026; the largest five together held 65.4%.

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

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .world among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 7 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

last night, in detail

Oct 13, 2026
What moved · on Oct 13, 2026
entered the zone
+1,065
left it
−367
changed nameservers
745
Net
+698
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 13, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 427,934 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers16,1323.8%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers6,0241.4%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers388,43790.8%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name17,3414.1%

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: 1.7%. 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.

Aug 2026: 409,657 — third-party estimate; the registry has not published that month yet.

how many names, month by month

to
Aug 2026 to Aug 2026

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Dashed months are third-party estimates. Sunrise Nov 2014 to Jan 2015; general registration Jan 2015.

everything else