.observer

2,989 domains as of 19 Sep 2026

Domains
2,989
19 Sep 2026
30-day change
▲ +178
6.33%
Signed in root
✔ Yes
DS record present
Type
Generic
ASCII
Registrar figures are for February 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
Fegistry, LLC
Technical backend
GoDaddy Registry (Neustar) via ns suffix
Delegated
27 Sep 2016
Nameservers
ns01.trs-dns.com, ns01.trs-dns.net, ns10.trs-dns.info, ns10.trs-dns.org
RDAP
https://rdap.registry.click/rdap
Zone data
CZDS access approved — counted daily

Do people keep it?

all renewal rates ›

Source: ICANN monthly registry reports

Of the 2,532 domains that came up for renewal between Jun 2025 and May 2026, the share renewed rather than deleted. How this is computed.

Keep rate
50.08%
below .com/.net/.org
Renewed
1,268
in twelve months
Deleted
1,264
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 4 of the 49 reporting here. This grouping is our inference, not ICANN's.

Month Feb 2026 latest
Namecheap — 972 (31.02%)Cloudflare, Inc. — 426 (13.6%)Porkbun LLC — 376 (12%)Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu — 253 (8.08%)Tucows — 234 (7.47%)Namemart Limited — 219 (6.99%)Gname.com Pte. Ltd. — 109 (3.48%)NameSilo, LLC — 71 (2.27%)Name.com, Inc. — 54 (1.72%)NETIM SAS — 50 (1.6%)Other — 369 (11.78%)
3.13kreported Feb 2026
Share of .observer by registrar
Namecheap2 accreditations97231.02%
Cloudflare, Inc.42613.6%
Porkbun LLC37612%
Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu2538.08%
Tucows2 accreditations2347.47%
Namemart Limited2196.99%
Gname.com Pte. Ltd.1093.48%
NameSilo, LLC712.27%
Name.com, Inc.541.72%
NETIM SAS501.6%
Other39 more36911.78%

Domains by month, Sep 2016 – 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.

Sep 2016 – May 2026 1y 3y 5y All
09191,8382,7563,675Sep 2016Jul 2021May 2026
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MonthDomainsChangeRegistrarsNet addsDeletes
May 2026 3,403 ▲ +110 53 169 724
Apr 2026 3,293 ▲ +82 52 133 48
Mar 2026 3,211 ▲ +78 52 128 50
Feb 2026 3,133 ▲ +82 51 131 41
Jan 2026 3,051 ▲ +42 51 90 69
Dec 2025 3,009 ▲ +31 50 98 57

Showing the latest 6 of 117 months in this range. Show all 117.

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
2,7652,8252,8862,9463,00612 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
+160-1612 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.
Registrar Domains Share Net adds Transfers in Deletes
Network Solutions, LLC 1
0%
0 0 0
Webnames.ca Inc. 1
0%
0 0 0
Dynadot Inc 1
0%
▲ +1 0 0
WHC Online Solutions Inc. 1
0%
0 0 0
Domeneshop AS dba domainnameshop.com 1
0%
0 0 0
CPS-Datensysteme GmbH 1
0%
0 0 0
Soluciones Corporativas IP, SL 1
0%
0 0 0
Beijing Guoxu Network Technology Co., Ltd. 1
0%
0 0 0
PlanetHoster Inc. 1
0%
0 0 0
WEDOS Internet, a.s. 1
0%
0 0 0
Virtualia LLC 1
0%
0 0 0
DNC Holdings, Inc. 2
0.1%
0 0 0
$$$ Private Label Internet Service Kiosk, Inc. (dba "PLISK.com") 2
0.1%
0 0 0
Ledl.net GmbH & Co KG 2
0.1%
0 0 0
Marcaria International LLC 2
0.1%
0 0 0
INWX GmbH 2
0.1%
0 0 0
URL Solutions, Inc. 2
0.1%
0 0 0
Synergy Wholesale Accreditations Pty Ltd 2
0.1%
0 0 0
Easyspace Limited 3
0.1%
0 0 0
Ascio Technologies, Inc. Danmark - Filial af Ascio technologies, Inc. USA 4
0.1%
0 0 0
Regional Network Information Center, JSC dba RU-CENTER 4
0.1%
0 0 0
Metaregistrar BV 4
0.1%
0 0 0
Realtime Register B.V. 5
0.2%
▲ +1 0 0
EuroDNS S.A. 6
0.2%
0 0 0
CSC Corporate Domains, Inc. 7
0.2%
0 0 0
Automattic Inc. 7
0.2%
0 0 0
Sav.com, LLC 10
0.3%
0 0 3
Gransy, s.r.o. 10
0.3%
0 0 0
Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE 11
0.4%
0 0 0
RegistrarSEC LLC 11
0.4%
0 0 0
CSL Computer Service Langenbach GmbH d/b/a joker.com 12
0.4%
▲ +1 0 0
Epik LLC 12
0.4%
0 0 3
Hosting Ukraine LLC 13
0.4%
▲ +2 0 0
Global Domains International, Inc. DBA DomainCostClub.com 16
0.5%
0 0 0
Above.com Pty Ltd. 19
0.6%
0 0 2
Reserved for non-billable transactions where Registry Operator acts as Registrar 23
0.7%
0 0 0
101domain GRS Limited 27
0.9%
0 0 1
Key-Systems, LLC 28
0.9%
0 0 0
MarkMonitor Inc. 29
0.9%
0 0 0
Gandi SAS 33
1.1%
0 0 1
TLD Registrar Solutions Ltd. 37
1.2%
▲ +6 0 0
united-domains GmbH 42
1.3%
▲ +5 0 0
NETIM SAS 51
1.6%
0 0 44
Name.com, Inc. 62
2%
▲ +3 0 1
NameSilo, LLC 76
2.4%
▲ +5 0 36
Gname.com Pte. Ltd. 109
3.5%
0 0 105
Spaceship, Inc. 124
4%
▲ +10 2 16
Namemart Limited 219
7%
0 0 219
Tucows Domains Inc. 248
7.9%
▲ +17 0 7
Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu 254
8.1%
▲ +1 0 242
Porkbun LLC 427
13.6%
▲ +22 1 6
Cloudflare, Inc. 558
17.8%
▲ +59 0 4
NameCheap, Inc. 877
28%
▲ +36 1 34

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 105 18.16M 0 107 37 26
Dec 2017 104 16.45M 0 195 30 22
Nov 2017 102 14.46M 0 3,984 111 23
Oct 2017 99 15.61M 0 3,862 60 0
Sep 2017 95 18.36M 0 101 43 0
Aug 2017 91 20.41M 0 67 0 0
Jul 2017 87 18.93M 0 55 1 2
Jun 2017 84 19.14M 0 67 0 0
May 2017 82 18.11M 0 108 2 0
Apr 2017 72 15.27M 0 190 7 0
Mar 2017 64 15.10M 0 0 0 0
Feb 2017 43 12.89M 0 11 0 0
Jan 2017 1 13.85M 0 0 0 0
Dec 2016 1 6.52M 0 0 0 0
Nov 2016 1 4.08M 0 0 0 0
Oct 2016 2 5.20M 0 0 0 0
Sep 2016 2 730.37k 0 0 0 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.