New-gTLD renewal rates

Every other page here counts domains. This one asks whether anyone wanted them a second year. Keep rate is the share of domains reaching a renewal decision that were renewed rather than deleted — Jun 2025 – May 2026, from the registries' own monthly reports to ICANN.

New gTLDs Legacy gTLDs All gTLDs

Median new gTLD

68.45%

half keep more, half less

.com, .net and .org

73.23%

the legacy benchmark

TLDs measured

545

at least 1,000 decisions

A keep rate is not a survival rate. A domain registered for three years reaches a decision once, not annually, so a TLD sold on long terms shows fewer renewals and fewer deletions rather than a different ratio. Renewals include auto-renewals, deletions include names dropped in the grace period, and transfers are excluded — a transfer is not a renewal decision, though it often carries one. How this is computed.

683 monthly filings report deleting more domains than the TLD has ever held. Those rates are shown as filed and marked filing, with the figure excluding the impossible month beside them. Nothing is silently dropped.

Showing 45 of 545 TLDs, sorted by keep rate. Every column heading sorts; paging is below.

TLD	Domains	Keep rate	Renewed	Deleted	Decisions
.guitars	688	4.87% filing · 81.87%	485	9,477	9,962
.lol	948,744	4.68%	25,267	514,632	539,899
.storage	653	4.55% filing · 83.97%	459	9,625	10,084
.locker	25,838	4.46%	860	18,410	19,270
.auto	601	4.46% filing · 83.54%	438	9,387	9,825
.christmas	29,980	3.77%	1,375	35,142	36,517
.loan	132,258	3.58%	2,997	80,778	83,775
.box	4,285	3.39% filing · 15.50%	403	11,497	11,900
.cyou	550,498	3.29%	7,427	218,302	225,729
.buzz	331,913	3.13%	9,936	307,296	317,232
.skin	241,772	3.05%	3,764	119,504	123,268
.car	396	2.93% filing · 79.76%	283	9,378	9,661
.cars	360	2.65% filing · 80.27%	255	9,364	9,619
.makeup	132,124	2.58%	1,288	48,644	49,932
.saarland	3,878	2.55% filing · 90.44%	3,515	134,282	137,797
.cfd	700,964	2.33%	6,621	277,011	283,632
.qpon	88,943	2.20%	494	21,932	22,426
.motorcycles	40,239	1.79%	698	38,365	39,063
.bmw	132	1.33% filing · 100.00%	129	9,606	9,735
.dealer	219	1.29% filing · 84.06%	122	9,326	9,448
.sbs	1,509,649	1.28%	8,809	676,841	685,650
.theatre	176	1.21% filing · 72.85%	117	9,579	9,696
.lidl	131	1.02% filing · 99.07%	111	10,825	10,936
.tui	99	0.90% filing · 96.34%	87	9,532	9,619
.protection	125	0.89% filing · 70.00%	86	9,572	9,658
.dhl	96	0.85% filing · 97.53%	82	9,561	9,643
.bond	1,194,761	0.81%	5,231	638,793	644,024
.mini	79	0.80% filing · 97.44%	77	9,605	9,682
.reit	836	0.72% filing · 100.00%	78	10,828	10,906
.موقع	82	0.65% filing · 90.91%	61	9,313	9,374
.deloitte	87	0.46% filing · 100.00%	50	10,824	10,874
.fresenius	44	0.38% filing · 100.00%	42	10,893	10,935
.kpn	44	0.29% filing · 100.00%	32	10,826	10,858
.smart	51	0.27% filing · 100.00%	26	9,506	9,532
.sfr	14	0.12% filing · 100.00%	12	10,208	10,220
.wme	8	0.04% filing · 100.00%	4	10,817	10,821
.stc	11	0.02% filing · 100.00%	2	10,827	10,829
.pohl	3	0.01% filing · 100.00%	1	9,603	9,604
.stcgroup	2	0.01% filing	1	10,828	10,829
.viva	2	0.01% filing	1	10,828	10,829
.llp	4	0.00% filing	0	9,304	9,304
.lpl	1	0.00% filing	0	10,828	10,828
.lplfinancial	1	0.00% filing	0	10,828	10,828
.vermögensberater	2	0.00% filing	0	9,606	9,606
.vermögensberatung	3	0.00% filing	0	9,603	9,603

Data currency. Domain counts on this page are from zone files dated 17 September 2026 and refresh daily. Registrar figures are from ICANN's monthly registry reports for May 2026, which ICANN publishes about three months in arrears; zone files contain no registrar information, so no fresher source exists. Full detail on methodology and live pipeline status.