.contractors

3,500 domains as of 19 Sep 2026

Domains

3,500

19 Sep 2026

30-day change

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: Binky Moon, LLC
Technical backend: Identity Digital via rdap host
Delegated: 14 Nov 2013
Nameservers: v0n0.nic.contractors, v0n1.nic.contractors, v0n2.nic.contractors, v0n3.nic.contractors, v2n0.nic.contractors, v2n1.nic.contractors
RDAP: https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap
Zone data: CZDS access approved — counted daily

Do people keep it?

all renewal rates ›

Source: ICANN monthly registry reports

Of the 3,321 domains that came up for renewal between Jun 2025 and May 2026, the share renewed rather than deleted. How this is computed.

Keep rate

72.06%

below .com/.net/.org

Renewed

2,393

in twelve months

Deleted

928

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 14 of the 89 reporting here. This grouping is our inference, not ICANN's.

3.82kreported May 2026

Share of .contractors by registrar
GoDaddy4 accreditations	1,183	30.98%
Namecheap2 accreditations	342	8.96%
Squarespace Domains II LLC	252	6.6%
Dynadot Inc	223	5.84%
InterNetX GmbH	197	5.16%
Porkbun LLC	138	3.61%
Domain Science Kutatási Szolgáltató Korlátolt Felelősségű Társaság	117	3.06%
Name.com, Inc.	115	3.01%
Tucows2 accreditations	112	2.93%
Sav.com, LLC6 accreditations	103	2.7%
Other79 more	1,036	27.13%

3,818 attributed to registrars in May 2026, against 3,500 in 19 Sep 2026’s zone — the zone is 318 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 2025 – 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 2025 – May 2026 1y 3y 5y 10y All

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Month	Domains	Change	Registrars	Net adds	Deletes
May 2026	3,818	▼ -6	101	116	124
Apr 2026	3,824	▲ +38	101	215	73
Mar 2026	3,786	▲ +120	99	66	38
Feb 2026	3,666	▼ -8	100	57	78
Jan 2026	3,674	▲ +154	99	202	51
Dec 2025	3,520	▼ -102	99	32	143

Showing the latest 6 of 13 months in this range. Show all 13.

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
Reserved for 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	Rejected
Jan 2018	195	68.36M	64	44	205	1	0
Dec 2017	194	74.21M	64	46	81	1	0
Nov 2017	193	66.94M	58	45	38	7	0
Oct 2017	192	59.92M	61	54	44	0	1
Sep 2017	192	57.34M	64	63	72	1	0
Aug 2017	190	52.15M	68	79	66	0	0
Jul 2017	187	47.28M	59	82	65	0	0
Jun 2017	187	46.75M	119	81	58	0	0
May 2017	187	46.21M	85	136	66	0	0
Apr 2017	186	42.52M	56	263	107	1	0
Mar 2017	185	43.21M	72	132	145	2	0
Feb 2017	174	31.35M	65	78	383	2	0
Jan 2017	172	50.11M	52	69	279	2	0
Dec 2016	171	50.18M	75	45	75	1	0
Nov 2016	171	46.13M	61	58	64	1	0
Oct 2016	166	54.07M	61	75	39	1	1
Sep 2016	164	57.15M	111	68	66	2	2
Aug 2016	162	68.27M	62	64	55	3	1
Jul 2016	160	64.06M	81	75	63	1	0
Jun 2016	160	59.61M	72	142	66	1	0
May 2016	141	49.66M	100	128	65	3	0
Apr 2016	141	32.83M	87	443	91	4	0
Mar 2016	139	33.81M	89	78	165	2	0
Feb 2016	137	37.35M	92	71	690	8	0
Jan 2016	137	36.60M	104	49	247	7	0
Dec 2015	137	38.49M	101	29	51	0	0
Nov 2015	136	29.31M	85	50	42	0	0
Oct 2015	133	28.33M	89	51	25	2	0
Sep 2015	130	22.00M	432	62	50	0	0
Aug 2015	130	21.23M	176	65	48	1	0
Jul 2015	129	23.09M	111	160	52	0	1
Jun 2015	127	22.27M	101	174	59	0	0
May 2015	125	11.96M	126	276	66	0	0
Apr 2015	125	20.10M	128	783	106	2	0
Mar 2015	122	19.86M	125	108	208	10	0
Feb 2015	119	21.79M	97	68	557	12	0
Jan 2015	119	25.97M	129	21	294	5	0
Dec 2014	115	20.84M	111	14	118	6	0
Nov 2014	113	18.88M	154	67	15	1	0
Oct 2014	112	21.39M	107	13	4	2	0
Sep 2014	109	19.79M	131	3	10	0	0
Aug 2014	109	14.69M	167	3	4	4	0
Jul 2014	106	10.41M	140	5	3	0	0
Jun 2014	98	14.40M	406	15	2	1	0
May 2014	94	7.62M	1,977	77	11	10	0
Apr 2014	90	7.61M	633	68	2	0	0
Mar 2014	85	11.10M	829	29	11	1	0
Feb 2014	82	10.31M	2,513	0	0	0	0
Jan 2014	73	2.49M	12	0	0	0	0
Dec 2013	4	5.11M	14	0	0	0	0
Nov 2013	0	1.08M	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.