.channel

2,899 domains as of 19 Sep 2026

Domains

2,899

19 Sep 2026

30-day change

▼ -84

-2.82%

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: Charleston Road Registry Inc.
Technical backend: Google Registry via ns suffix
Delegated: 15 Sep 2014
Nameservers: ns-tld1.charlestonroadregistry.com, ns-tld2.charlestonroadregistry.com, ns-tld3.charlestonroadregistry.com, ns-tld4.charlestonroadregistry.com, ns-tld5.charlestonroadregistry.com
RDAP: https://pubapi.registry.google/rdap
Zone data: CZDS access approved — counted daily

Do people keep it?

all renewal rates ›

Source: ICANN monthly registry reports

Of the 1,702 domains that came up for renewal between Jun 2025 and May 2026, the share renewed rather than deleted. How this is computed.

Keep rate

68.45%

below .com/.net/.org

Renewed

1,165

in twelve months

Deleted

537

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 7 of the 34 reporting here. This grouping is our inference, not ICANN's.

3.26kreported May 2026

Share of .channel by registrar
Namecheap2 accreditations	1,189	36.53%
Dynadot Inc	536	16.47%
GoDaddy3 accreditations	345	10.6%
Porkbun LLC	336	10.32%
MarkMonitor Inc.	238	7.31%
CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.	145	4.45%
101domain GRS Limited	99	3.04%
Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE	69	2.12%
Tucows2 accreditations	61	1.87%
Reserved for billable transactions where Registry Operator acts as Registrar	41	1.26%
Other24 more	196	6.02%

3,255 attributed to registrars in May 2026, against 2,899 in 19 Sep 2026’s zone — the zone is 356 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 10y All

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Month	Domains	Change	Registrars	Net adds	Deletes
May 2026	3,255	▼ -137	38	103	271
Apr 2026	3,392	▼ -187	39	65	225
Mar 2026	3,579	▲ +74	40	100	16
Feb 2026	3,505	▲ +106	39	110	5
Jan 2026	3,399	▲ +123	37	111	0
Dec 2025	3,276	▲ +85	37	91	1
Nov 2025	3,191	▲ +114	37	109	0
Oct 2025	3,077	▲ +83	34	97	0
Sep 2025	2,994	▲ +148	33	149	0
Aug 2025	2,846	▲ +337	32	360	0
Jul 2025	2,509	▲ +218	31	210	17
Jun 2025	2,291	▲ +134	31	110	2
May 2025	2,157	▲ +135	31	283	2
Apr 2025	2,022	▲ +342	29	238	4
Mar 2025	1,680	▲ +242	27	236	0
Feb 2025	1,438	▲ +1,094	27	1,086	25
Jan 2025	344	▲ +22	17	1	1
Dec 2024	322	0	16	0	0
Nov 2024	322	▼ -2	16	0	2
Oct 2024	324	▼ -1	16	0	1
Sep 2024	325	▼ -1	16	0	1
Aug 2024	326	0	16	0	0
Jul 2024	326	▼ -1	16	0	1
Jun 2024	327	▼ -8	16	0	8
May 2024	335	0	16	0	0
Apr 2024	335	0	16	0	0
Mar 2024	335	0	16	0	0
Feb 2024	335	▼ -1	15	0	1
Jan 2024	336	0	15	0	0
Dec 2023	336	0	15	0	0
Nov 2023	336	▼ -9	15	0	9
Oct 2023	345	▼ -9	15	0	9
Sep 2023	354	▲ +1	15	1	0
Aug 2023	353	▼ -2	15	0	2
Jul 2023	355	▲ +1	15	1	0
Jun 2023	354	0	14	0	0
May 2023	354	0	14	0	0

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

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
NameCheap, Inc.	920	28.3%	▲ +45	0	194
Dynadot Inc	536	16.5%	▲ +7	0	9
Porkbun LLC	336	10.3%	▲ +9	0	14
GoDaddy.com, LLC	335	10.3%	▲ +26	0	3
Spaceship, Inc.	269	8.3%	▲ +13	0	26
MarkMonitor Inc.	238	7.3%	0	0	0
CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.	145	4.5%	0	0	0
101domain GRS Limited	99	3%	0	0	15
Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE	69	2.1%	0	0	0
Tucows Domains Inc.	56	1.7%	0	0	0
Reserved for billable transactions where Registry Operator acts as Registrar	41	1.3%	0	0	0
Key-Systems, LLC	34	1%	0	0	0
Marcaria International LLC	32	1%	0	0	1
Gandi SAS	27	0.8%	0	0	5
Lexsynergy Limited	16	0.5%	0	0	0
Name.com, Inc.	12	0.4%	▲ +3	0	0
Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu	12	0.4%	0	0	3
1API GmbH	11	0.3%	0	0	0
EuroDNS S.A.	9	0.3%	0	0	0
NETIM SAS	9	0.3%	0	0	0
GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC	9	0.3%	0	2	0
Safenames Ltd	6	0.2%	0	0	0
Squarespace Domains II LLC	6	0.2%	0	0	0
Ascio Technologies, Inc. Danmark - Filial af Ascio technologies, Inc. USA	5	0.2%	0	0	0
eNom, LLC	4	0.1%	0	0	0
Soluciones Corporativas IP, SL	3	0.1%	0	0	0
Devexpanse Ltd	3	0.1%	0	0	0
CSL Computer Service Langenbach GmbH d/b/a joker.com	2	0.1%	0	0	0
InterNetX GmbH	2	0.1%	0	0	0
Wild West Domains, LLC	1	0%	0	0	0
Ledl.net GmbH & Co KG	1	0%	0	0	0
Nameshield SAS	1	0%	0	0	0
united-domains GmbH	1	0%	0	0	0
INWX GmbH	1	0%	0	0	0
Gname.com Pte. Ltd.	1	0%	0	0	0
NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED	1	0%	0	0	0
Barbero & Associates Limited	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
Jan 2018	52	37.42M	0
Dec 2017	52	40.20M	0
Nov 2017	52	37.65M	0
Oct 2017	52	34.21M	1
Sep 2017	0	27.67M	0
Aug 2017	0	43.97M	0
Jul 2017	0	34.46M	0
Jun 2017	0	41.60M	0
May 2017	0	42.48M	0
Apr 2017	0	35.80M	0
Mar 2017	0	30.34M	0
Feb 2017	0	22.82M	0
Jan 2017	0	82.52M	0
Dec 2016	0	22.67M	0
Nov 2016	0	18.62M	0
Oct 2016	0	22.02M	0
Sep 2016	0	20.96M	0
Aug 2016	0	20.93M	0
Jul 2016	0	20.38M	0
Jun 2016	0	19.38M	0
May 2016	0	17.23M	0
Apr 2016	0	36.87M	0
Mar 2016	0	18.66M	0
Feb 2016	0	15.56M	0
Jan 2016	0	19.57M	0
Dec 2015	0	14.79M	0
Nov 2015	0	15.21M	0
Oct 2015	0	14.97M	0
Sep 2015	0	15.47M	0
Aug 2015	0	14.38M	0
Jul 2015	0	13.48M	0
Jun 2015	0	17.98M	0
May 2015	0	14.57M	0
Apr 2015	0	16.10M	0
Mar 2015	0	16.56M	0
Feb 2015	0	14.27M	0
Jan 2015	0	16.18M	0
Dec 2014	0	15.28M	0
Nov 2014	0	14.70M	0
Oct 2014	0	14.03M	0
Sep 2014	0	12.62M	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.