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5,402 domains as of 24 Sep 2026

Domains
5,402
24 Sep 2026
30-day change
▲ +34
0.63%
Signed in root
✔ Yes
DS record present
Type
Generic
ASCII
Registrar figures are for February 2023. 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
6 Nov 2013
Nameservers
v0n0.nic.lighting, v0n1.nic.lighting, v0n2.nic.lighting, v0n3.nic.lighting, v2n0.nic.lighting, v2n1.nic.lighting
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 5,536 domains that came up for renewal between Jun 2025 and May 2026, the share renewed rather than deleted. How this is computed.

Keep rate
75.05%
above .com/.net/.org
Renewed
4,155
in twelve months
Deleted
1,381
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 9 of the 104 reporting here. This grouping is our inference, not ICANN's.

Month ‹ › Feb 2023 latest
GoDaddy — 2,107 (34.22%)Tucows — 390 (6.33%)Squarespace Domains II LLC — 358 (5.81%)Namecheap — 301 (4.89%)Newfold Digital — 290 (4.71%)IONOS SE — 265 (4.3%)Key-Systems — 223 (3.62%)Mesh Digital Limited — 192 (3.12%)eNom, LLC — 176 (2.86%)Cronon GmbH — 109 (1.77%)Other — 1,746 (28.36%)
6.16kreported Feb 2023
GoDaddy4 accreditations2,10734.22%
Tucows2 accreditations3906.33%
Squarespace Domains II LLC3585.81%
Namecheap3014.89%
Newfold Digital3 accreditations2904.71%
IONOS SE2654.3%
Key-Systems2233.62%
Mesh Digital Limited1923.12%
eNom, LLC1762.86%
Cronon GmbH1091.77%
Other94 more1,74628.36%

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
5,5205,7986,0766,3546,632May 2023Nov 2024May 2026
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MonthDomainsChangeRegistrarsNet addsDeletes
May 2026 5,792 ▼ -10 133 86 93
Apr 2026 5,802 ▼ -51 132 327 116
Mar 2026 5,853 ▲ +256 132 54 62
Feb 2026 5,597 ▼ -2 132 50 53
Jan 2026 5,599 ▼ -6 133 38 52
Dec 2025 5,605 ▼ -29 133 50 72

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

Domains by day, 12 Aug 2026 – 24 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 – 24 Sep 2026 30d All
5,3625,3745,3865,3985,41012 Aug 262 Sep 2624 Sep 26
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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
+120-1212 Aug 2624 Sep 26

Registrars

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.
Registrar Domains Share Net adds Transfers in Deletes
Eranet International Limited 2
0%
0 0 0
Gname.com Pte. Ltd. 2
0%
0 0 0
NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED 2
0%
0 0 0
İsimtescil Bilişim A.Ş. 2
0%
0 0 0
Global Domain Group LLC 2
0%
0 0 0
Reserved for non-billable transactions where Registry Operator acts as Registrar 2
0%
0 0 0
Domain The Net Technologies Ltd. 2
0%
0 0 0
OnlineNIC, Inc. 1
0%
0 0 0
$$$ Private Label Internet Service Kiosk, Inc. (dba "PLISK.com") 1
0%
0 0 0
Interdominios, Inc. 1
0%
0 0 0
CPS-Datensysteme GmbH 1
0%
0 0 0
Dinahosting s.l. 1
0%
0 0 0
Center of Ukrainian Internet Names (UKRNAMES) 1
0%
0 0 0
Tecnocrática Centro de Datos, S.L. 1
0%
0 0 0
LEMARIT GmbH 1
0%
▲ +1 0 0
Ligne Web Services SAS dba LWS 1
0%
0 0 0
P.A. Viet Nam Company Limited 1
0%
0 0 0
DNS Africa Ltd 1
0%
0 0 0
PlanetHoster Inc. 1
0%
0 0 0
Team Blue Internet Services IE Limited 1
0%
0 0 0
Edomains LLC 1
0%
0 0 0
Brand Focus Limited 1
0%
0 0 0
Sav.com, LLC - 17 1
0%
0 0 0
Sav.com, LLC - 21 1
0%
0 0 0
Sav.com, LLC - 39 1
0%
0 0 0
Sav.com, LLC - 42 1
0%
0 0 0
Sav.com, LLC - 43 1
0%
0 0 0
Sav.com, LLC - 46 1
0%
0 0 0
Sav.com, LLC - 48 1
0%
▲ +1 0 0
Cloud DNS Ltd 1
0%
0 0 0
Devexpanse Ltd 1
0%
0 0 0
Reserved for ICANN's Registry SLA Monitoring System transactions reporting 1
0%
0 0 0
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) RDAP queries Creates Deletes Renews Transfers approved Rejected
May 2026 1,648 444.64M 611.71k 94 105 159 17 2
Apr 2026 1,643 457.76M 622.26k 78 66 168 – –
Mar 2026 1,644 472.31M 671.03k 356 143 168 – –
Feb 2026 1,643 388.97M 605.95k 60 48 264 – –
Jan 2026 1,642 368.93M 638.42k 219 71 326 – –
Dec 2025 1,642 402.06M 638.01k 43 91 150 – –
Nov 2025 1,641 383.95M 596.20k 207 191 107 – –
Oct 2025 1,636 352.99M 573.86k 85 87 178 – –
Sep 2025 1,635 325.65M 536.86k 61 64 275 – –
Aug 2025 1,631 347.95M 513.25k 62 78 127 – –
Jul 2025 1,628 354.75M 444.65k 70 65 139 – –
Jun 2025 1,624 341.71M 444.14k 80 65 151 – –
May 2025 1,621 345.03M 447.78k 111 497 410 – –
Apr 2025 1,619 336.82M 430.18k 159 214 161 – –
Mar 2025 1,616 394.09M 422.52k 347 98 192 – –
Feb 2025 1,615 345.34M 379.60k 74 97 251 – –
Jan 2025 1,611 348.41M 420.13k 70 71 351 – –
Dec 2024 1,608 331.91M 416.91k 79 67 137 – –
Nov 2024 1,606 318.70M 391.48k 50 104 118 – –
Oct 2024 1,604 327.50M 228.67k 9,655 66 156 – –
Sep 2024 1,600 293.37M 50.85k 367 86 153 – –
Aug 2024 1,600 291.94M 54.39k 2,333 91 120 – –
Jul 2024 1,600 304.67M 48.59k 278 49 159 – –
Jun 2024 1,598 297.91M 49.37k 1,506 80 135 – –
May 2024 1,598 283.61M 33.11k 68 89 131 – –
Apr 2024 1,598 333.81M 27.12k 2,258 78 142 – –
Mar 2024 1,597 304.61M 42.53k 607 166 167 – –
Feb 2024 1,595 258.75M 35.38k 70 64 265 – –
Jan 2024 1,596 279.21M 42.35k 6,208 61 320 – –
Dec 2023 1,596 278.05M 42.93k 73 75 115 – –
Nov 2023 1,595 241.95M 49.93k 50 66 166 – –
Oct 2023 1,340 247.77M 26.57k 96 73 140 – –
Sep 2023 338 226.14M 0 112 87 144 – –
Aug 2023 337 245.12M 0 67 77 125 – –
Jul 2023 336 227.07M 0 271 65 131 – –
Jun 2023 336 257.63M 0 49 94 170 – –
May 2023 335 236.29M 0 85 81 114 – –
Apr 2023 335 251.51M 0 89 78 149 – –
Mar 2023 332 238.34M 0 49 109 142 – –
Feb 2023 332 202.77M 0 59 55 244 – –
Jan 2023 331 253.56M 0 94 68 317 – –
Dec 2022 331 232.38M 0 102 120 132 – –
Nov 2022 326 244.11M 0 103 84 102 – –
Oct 2022 326 277.47M 0 134 71 134 – –
Sep 2022 327 258.05M 0 90 65 123 – –
Aug 2022 327 238.16M 0 138 54 118 – –
Jul 2022 325 266.53M 0 92 80 123 – –
Jun 2022 325 266.08M 0 117 99 155 – –
May 2022 320 254.44M 0 114 78 111 – –
Apr 2022 319 236.46M 0 92 107 163 – –
Mar 2022 317 202.89M 0 80 123 209 – –
Feb 2022 314 171.94M 0 15,441 45 272 – –
Jan 2022 310 186.80M 0 523 107 375 – –
Dec 2021 307 180.24M 0 94 66 124 – –
Nov 2021 295 182.23M 0 167 63 100 – –
Oct 2021 264 213.90M 0 103 77 129 – –
Sep 2021 237 143.95M 0 115 54 130 – –
Aug 2021 238 124.16M 0 62 67 137 – –
Jul 2021 234 136.37M 0 23,093 83 96 – –
Jun 2021 246 131.26M 0 60 80 140 – –
May 2021 246 141.49M 0 88 75 112 – –
Apr 2021 246 209.89M 0 12,930 65 132 – –
Mar 2021 246 174.26M 0 116 126 168 – –
Feb 2021 243 147.34M 0 4,812 77 269 – –
Jan 2021 240 192.14M 0 146,202 65 352 – –
Dec 2020 239 187.66M 0 29,444 63 120 – –
Nov 2020 239 184.34M 0 91 66 151 – –
Oct 2020 239 251.13M 0 97 89 125 – –
Sep 2020 237 218.74M 0 53 60 86 – –
Aug 2020 237 185.14M 0 217 74 106 – –
Jul 2020 237 174.54M 0 64 69 139 – –
Jun 2020 237 178.79M 0 64 106 146 – –
May 2020 234 185.87M 0 110 80 124 – –
Apr 2020 234 159.77M 0 66 168 156 – –
Mar 2020 232 168.01M 0 62 154 190 – –
Feb 2020 232 159.40M 0 71 75 400 – –
Jan 2020 231 151.02M 0 69 85 368 – –
Dec 2019 231 149.21M 0 78 58 142 – –
Nov 2019 231 132.74M 0 80 64 93 – –
Oct 2019 216 120.88M 0 77 65 110 – –
Sep 2019 216 102.08M 0 155 60 269 – –
Aug 2019 215 93.27M 0 95 85 127 – –
Jul 2019 214 92.34M 0 89 82 108 – –
Jun 2019 213 86.70M 0 77 77 157 – –
May 2019 213 77.27M 0 75 91 124 – –
Apr 2019 212 73.28M 0 239,719 163 353 – –
Mar 2019 212 78.30M 0 93 202 221 – –
Feb 2019 211 65.25M 0 66 64 334 – –
Jan 2019 209 76.86M 0 97 84 381 – –
Dec 2018 208 75.01M 0 91 105 117 – –
Nov 2018 208 67.19M 0 92 94 107 – –
Oct 2018 206 60.93M 0 72 82 112 – –
Sep 2018 205 57.00M 0 51 106 105 – –
Aug 2018 204 68.52M 0 1,415 88 121 – –
Jul 2018 204 71.11M 0 81 88 145 – –
Jun 2018 200 68.91M 0 86 108 143 – –
May 2018 199 61.51M 0 101 111 139 – –
Apr 2018 198 57.48M 0 1,539 125 180 – –
Mar 2018 198 57.40M 0 193 195 237 – –
Feb 2018 196 56.12M 0 85 66 361 – –

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