Legacy-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 — Aug 2025 – Jul 2026, from the registries' own monthly reports to ICANN.

New gTLDs Legacy gTLDs All gTLDs

Median legacy gTLD

76.15%

half keep more, half less

.com, .net and .org

73.18%

the legacy benchmark

TLDs measured

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 17 of 17 TLDs, sorted by keep rate. Every column heading sorts; paging is below.

TLD	Domains	Keep rate	Renewed	Deleted	Decisions
.tel	39,404	99.30%	30,650	217	30,867
.cat	118,275	97.22%	89,597	2,561	92,158
.jobs	11,011	92.45%	8,985	734	9,719
.aero	14,121	91.23%	10,331	993	11,324
.xxx	42,802	89.56%	32,718	3,812	36,530
.coop	8,653	89.02%	6,074	749	6,823
.name	97,622	88.10%	77,530	10,469	87,999
.museum	1,175	85.42%	961	164	1,125
.net	12,791,752	76.15%	8,290,114	2,596,337	10,886,451
.travel	29,151	73.40%	16,878	6,116	22,994
.com	171,294,594	73.28%	98,260,886	35,837,205	134,098,091
.biz	1,323,132	72.21%	767,807	295,508	1,063,315
.mobi	435,597	70.71%	158,176	65,527	223,703
.org	12,672,940	69.29%	7,901,714	3,502,408	11,404,122
.info	5,631,786	56.98%	2,146,813	1,621,016	3,767,829
.asia	685,690	37.28%	112,279	188,859	301,138
.pro	1,265,569	28.63%	240,294	599,140	839,434

Data currency. Domain counts on this page are from zone files dated 10 November 2026 and refresh daily. Registrar figures are from ICANN's monthly registry reports for July 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.