.monster

43,746 domains as of 19 Sep 2026

Domains
43,746
19 Sep 2026
30-day change
▲ +2,635
6.41%
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
XYZ.COM LLC
Technical backend
CentralNic (Team Internet) via rdap host
Delegated
14 Sep 2016
Nameservers
a.nic.monster, b.nic.monster, c.nic.monster, d.nic.monster
RDAP
https://rdap.centralnic.com/monster
Zone data
CZDS access approved — counted daily

Do people keep it?

all renewal rates ›

Source: ICANN monthly registry reports

Of the 56,899 domains that came up for renewal between Jun 2025 and May 2026, the share renewed rather than deleted. How this is computed.

Keep rate
13.20%
below .com/.net/.org
Renewed
7,509
in twelve months
Deleted
49,390
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 6 of the 117 reporting here. This grouping is our inference, not ICANN's.

Month May 2026
Namecheap — 17,020 (42.8%)Dynadot Inc — 4,777 (12.01%)GoDaddy — 4,370 (10.99%)NameSilo, LLC — 3,323 (8.36%)Chengdu West Dimension Digital Technology Co., Ltd. — 1,874 (4.71%)Porkbun LLC — 1,652 (4.15%)GMO Internet Group, Inc. d/b/a Onamae.com — 677 (1.7%)Megazone Corp., dba HOSTING.KR — 666 (1.67%)XServer, Inc. — 487 (1.22%)Cloudflare, Inc. — 364 (0.92%)Other — 4,554 (11.45%)
39.76kreported May 2026
Share of .monster by registrar
Namecheap2 accreditations17,02042.8%
Dynadot Inc4,77712.01%
GoDaddy4 accreditations4,37010.99%
NameSilo, LLC3,3238.36%
Chengdu West Dimension Digital Technology Co., Ltd.1,8744.71%
Porkbun LLC1,6524.15%
GMO Internet Group, Inc. d/b/a Onamae.com6771.7%
Megazone Corp., dba HOSTING.KR6661.67%
XServer, Inc.4871.22%
Cloudflare, Inc.3640.92%
Other107 more4,55411.45%

39,764 attributed to registrars in May 2026, against 43,746 in 19 Sep 2026’s zone — the zone is 3,982 larger. 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
32,23750,68969,14287,594106.05kMay 2023Nov 2024May 2026
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MonthDomainsChangeRegistrarsNet addsDeletes
May 2026 39,764 ▲ +1,495 133 3,581 2,282
Apr 2026 38,269 ▲ +942 135 2,998 2,178
Mar 2026 37,327 ▼ -985 134 1,875 3,085
Feb 2026 38,312 ▼ -1,276 132 1,825 12,327
Jan 2026 39,588 ▼ -625 133 2,725 3,617
Dec 2025 40,213 ▼ -1,296 132 1,449 2,738

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
39,90340,93541,96742,99944,03112 Aug 2631 Aug 2619 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
+3490-34912 Aug 2619 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.

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
Jan 2018 0 14.53M 0 0 0 0
Dec 2017 0 14.53M 0 0 0 0
Nov 2017 0 14.53M 0 9 1 0
Oct 2017 0 14.53M 0 0 0 0
Sep 2017 0 16.57M 0 0 9 0
Aug 2017 0 14.85M 0 4 0 0
Jul 2017 0 14.23M 0 0 0 0
Jun 2017 0 13.20M 0 0 0 0
May 2017 0 13.75M 0 0 0 0
Apr 2017 0 11.35M 0 0 0 0
Mar 2017 0 11.69M 0 0 0 0
Feb 2017 0 10.60M 0 0 0 0
Jan 2017 0 11.20M 0 0 0 0
Dec 2016 0 13.66M 0 0 0 0
Nov 2016 0 10.67M 0 0 0 0
Oct 2016 0 10.32M 0 6 0 0
Sep 2016 0 5.22M 0 0 8 0

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.