.boston

4,318 domains as of 19 Sep 2026

Domains

4,318

19 Sep 2026

30-day change

▼ -5

-0.12%

Signed in root

✔ Yes

DS record present

Type

Generic

ASCII

Registrar figures are for May 2026. ICANN publishes monthly registry reports about three months in arrears, and they are the only source that attributes domains to registrars — zone files do not contain registrar information. Methodology.

Registry details

From the IANA Root Zone Database and RDAP bootstrap.

Registry operator: Registry Services, LLC
Technical backend: ARI Registry Services (GoDaddy Registry) via ns ptr
Delegated: 29 Nov 2016
Nameservers: a.nic.boston, b.nic.boston, c.nic.boston, x.nic.boston, y.nic.boston, z.nic.boston
RDAP: https://rdap.nic.boston
Zone data: CZDS access approved — counted daily

Do people keep it?

all renewal rates ›

Source: ICANN monthly registry reports

Of the 4,094 domains that came up for renewal between Jun 2025 and May 2026, the share renewed rather than deleted. How this is computed.

Keep rate

64.48%

below .com/.net/.org

Renewed

2,640

in twelve months

Deleted

1,454

in twelve months

For comparison, the median new gTLD keeps 68.45% and .com, .net and .org together keep 73.23%.

Registrar share

individual · combined

Source: ICANN monthly registry reports

Related accreditations combined into corporate families, folding 11 of the 56 reporting here. This grouping is our inference, not ICANN's.

4.53kreported May 2026

Share of .boston by registrar
GoDaddy4 accreditations	2,039	45.05%
Namecheap2 accreditations	755	16.68%
Cloudflare, Inc.	270	5.97%
Porkbun LLC	247	5.46%
Newfold Digital3 accreditations	151	3.34%
CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.	117	2.59%
Tucows2 accreditations	99	2.19%
EnCirca, Inc.	94	2.08%
Dynadot Inc	92	2.03%
NameSilo, LLC	91	2.01%
Other46 more	571	12.62%

4,526 attributed to registrars in May 2026, against 4,318 in 19 Sep 2026’s zone — the zone is 208 smaller. The two are months apart, and a registry's own count also includes registrations that are not delegated in the zone. Why there are two clocks.

Domains by month, May 2023 – May 2026

Source: ICANN monthly registry reports

From ICANN's monthly registry reports — the registry's own count, summed across registrars. This is the long history: it reaches back to delegation, where the daily series below can only start when this site began collecting zone files.

May 2023 – May 2026 1y 3y 5y All

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Month	Domains	Change	Registrars	Net adds	Deletes
May 2026	4,526	▼ -22	63	49	67
Apr 2026	4,548	▼ -207	63	79	293
Mar 2026	4,755	▲ +14	64	96	88
Feb 2026	4,741	▼ -28	64	58	77
Jan 2026	4,769	▼ -107	64	67	176
Dec 2025	4,876	▼ -141	64	46	202

Showing the latest 6 of 37 months in this range. Show all 37.

Domains by day, 12 Aug 2026 – 19 Sep 2026

Source: Daily zone files

Counted from daily zone files. Names with at least one NS record or a DS record.

12 Aug 2026 – 19 Sep 2026 30d All

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Daily change

Source: Daily zone files

Day-over-day difference of the zone's name list, over the same window as the chart above.

Added
Dropped

Registrars

Registrar	Domains	Share	Net adds	Transfers in	Deletes
GoDaddy.com, LLC	1,969	43.5%	▲ +23	0	24
NameCheap, Inc.	575	12.7%	▲ +8	0	18
Cloudflare, Inc.	270	6%	▲ +4	4	1
Porkbun LLC	247	5.5%	▲ +8	0	4
Spaceship, Inc.	180	4%	▲ +1	0	3
Network Solutions, LLC	127	2.8%	0	0	2
CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.	117	2.6%	0	0	0
Tucows Domains Inc.	98	2.2%	▲ +2	0	4
EnCirca, Inc.	94	2.1%	0	0	0
Dynadot Inc	92	2%	▲ +1	0	0
NameSilo, LLC	91	2%	0	0	0
Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE	85	1.9%	0	0	0
MarkMonitor Inc.	69	1.5%	0	0	4
IONOS SE	47	1%	0	0	0
Gandi SAS	34	0.8%	0	0	0
101domain GRS Limited	31	0.7%	▲ +1	0	1
Global Domains International, Inc. DBA DomainCostClub.com	30	0.7%	0	0	0
Key-Systems, LLC	29	0.6%	0	0	0
Wild West Domains, LLC	27	0.6%	0	0	1
GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC	27	0.6%	0	0	0
Hello Internet Corp.	24	0.5%	0	0	0
Name.com, Inc.	21	0.5%	▲ +1	2	1
Domain.com - Network Solutions, LLC	19	0.4%	0	0	0
1API GmbH	19	0.4%	0	0	0
GoDaddy Online Services Cayman Islands Ltd.	16	0.4%	0	0	0
Go Canada Domains, LLC	14	0.3%	0	0	0
eNom, LLC	13	0.3%	0	0	0
Safenames Ltd	11	0.2%	0	0	0
Go China Domains, LLC	11	0.2%	0	0	0
Instra Corporation Pty Ltd.	11	0.2%	0	0	0
united-domains GmbH	11	0.2%	0	0	0
Go Australia Domains, LLC	10	0.2%	0	0	0
Go France Domains, LLC	9	0.2%	0	0	0
Lexsynergy Limited	9	0.2%	0	0	0
Gname.com Pte. Ltd.	8	0.2%	0	0	3
Sav.com, LLC	7	0.2%	0	0	0
Marcaria International LLC	7	0.2%	0	0	0
Go Montenegro Domains, LLC	7	0.2%	0	0	0
Blue Razor Domains, LLC	6	0.1%	0	0	0
Register.com - Network Solutions, LLC	5	0.1%	0	0	0
Namemart Limited	5	0.1%	0	0	0
Devexpanse Ltd	5	0.1%	0	0	0
InterNetX GmbH	4	0.1%	0	0	0
NETIM SAS	4	0.1%	0	0	0
Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu	4	0.1%	0	0	0
Unstoppable Domains Inc.	4	0.1%	0	0	0
Epik LLC	3	0.1%	0	0	1
Dreamscape Networks International Pte Ltd	2	0%	0	0	0
INWX GmbH	2	0%	0	0	0
Barbero & Associates Limited	2	0%	0	0	0
Reserved for billable transactions where Registry Operator acts as Registrar	2	0%	0	0	0
Abion AB	1	0%	0	0	0
Ascio Technologies, Inc. Danmark - Filial af Ascio technologies, Inc. USA	1	0%	0	0	0
BB-Online UK Limited	1	0%	0	0	0
Realtime Register B.V.	1	0%	0	0	0
Tiger Technologies LLC	1	0%	0	0	0
EuroDNS S.A.	1	0%	0	0	0
DomainContext, Inc.	1	0%	0	0	0
OwnRegistrar, Inc.	1	0%	0	0	0
Soluciones Corporativas IP, SL	1	0%	0	0	0
Domain Science Kutatási Szolgáltató Korlátolt Felelősségű Társaság	1	0%	0	0	0
Reserved for ICANN's Registry SLA Monitoring System transactions reporting	1	0%	0	0	0
Reserved for non-billable transactions where Registry Operator acts as Registrar	1	0%	0	0	0

Registry activity

Source: ICANN monthly registry reports

Query volumes and EPP operations reported monthly by the registry. The only public signal of how much a TLD is actually resolved rather than merely registered.

Month	Operational registrars	DNS queries (UDP)	Creates	Deletes	Renews	Transfers approved
Jan 2018	65	61.04M	328	2	6	6
Dec 2017	64	64.43M	13,449	9	0	1
Nov 2017	64	43.91M	6,295	43,140	6	0
Oct 2017	63	37.47M	275,973	15,871	161	0
Sep 2017	54	34.53M	30	0	0	0
Aug 2017	51	27.25M	2,212	0	0	0
Jul 2017	42	15.92M	0	0	0	0
Jun 2017	6	28.35M	0	0	0	0
May 2017	6	27.69M	0	0	0	0
Apr 2017	6	24.77M	0	0	0	0
Mar 2017	6	15.06M	0	0	0	0
Feb 2017	6	0	0	0	0	0
Jan 2017	6	0	0	0	0	0
Dec 2016	6	0	0	0	0	0
Nov 2016	6	0	0	0	0	0

Data currency. Domain counts on this page are from zone files dated 19 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.