.org
12,149,073 domains as of 19 Sep 2026
Registry details
From the IANA Root Zone Database and RDAP bootstrap.
- Registry operator
- Public Interest Registry (PIR)
- Technical backend
- Identity Digital via ns suffix
- Delegated
- unknown
- Nameservers
- a0.org.afilias-nst.info, a2.org.afilias-nst.info, b0.org.afilias-nst.org, b2.org.afilias-nst.org, c0.org.afilias-nst.info, d0.org.afilias-nst.org
- RDAP
- https://rdap.publicinterestregistry.org/rdap
- Zone data
- CZDS access approved — counted daily
Do people keep it?
all renewal rates ›Source: ICANN monthly registry reports
Of the 11,402,711 domains that came up for renewal between Jun 2025 and May 2026, the share renewed rather than deleted. How this is computed.
For comparison, the median new gTLD keeps 68.45% and .com, .net and .org together keep 73.23%.
Registrar share
individual · combinedSource: ICANN monthly registry reports
Related accreditations combined into corporate families, folding 31 of the 359 reporting here. This grouping is our inference, not ICANN's.
| GoDaddy4 accreditations | 3.61M | 28.84% |
|---|---|---|
| Namecheap2 accreditations | 1.35M | 10.81% |
| Tucows3 accreditations | 815.00k | 6.5% |
| Newfold Digital3 accreditations | 651.84k | 5.2% |
| Squarespace Domains II LLC | 541.49k | 4.32% |
| IONOS SE | 472.68k | 3.77% |
| Cloudflare, Inc. | 387.00k | 3.09% |
| Dynadot Inc19 accreditations | 336.84k | 2.69% |
| Squarespace Domains LLC | 287.35k | 2.29% |
| Reserved for Registry Operator acting as Registrar where directed by ICANN | 271.36k | 2.17% |
| Other349 more | 3.80M | 30.31% |
12,529,516 attributed to registrars in May 2026, against 12,149,073 in 19 Sep 2026’s zone — the zone is 380,443 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, Oct 2013 – 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.
| Month | Domains | Change | Registrars | Net adds | Deletes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2026 | 12,529,516 | ▲ +79,884 | 2,233 | 276,392 | 316,411 |
| Apr 2026 | 12,449,632 | ▲ +88,526 | 2,230 | 264,098 | 296,698 |
| Mar 2026 | 12,361,106 | ▲ +107,607 | 2,232 | 261,179 | 278,641 |
| Feb 2026 | 12,253,499 | ▲ +69,057 | 2,231 | 227,483 | 265,933 |
| Jan 2026 | 12,184,442 | ▲ +71,885 | 2,231 | 235,358 | 295,881 |
| Dec 2025 | 12,112,557 | ▲ +47,711 | 2,230 | 225,817 | 296,305 |
Showing the latest 6 of 152 months in this range. Show all 152.
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.
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
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 | 1,744 | 156.35B | 0 | 9,114,874 | 213,153 | 860,299 | – | – |
| Dec 2017 | 1,746 | 124.05B | 0 | 9,282,496 | 262,195 | 1,053,979 | – | – |
| Nov 2017 | 1,746 | 118.33B | 0 | 10,137,790 | 198,170 | 4,014,476 | – | – |
| Oct 2017 | 1,744 | 124.34B | 0 | 10,403,345 | 213,882 | 3,715,993 | – | – |
| Sep 2017 | 1,894 | 115.21B | 0 | 9,831,430 | 192,231 | 3,747,924 | – | – |
| Aug 2017 | 1,894 | 118.76B | 0 | 8,830,971 | 208,304 | 3,332,118 | – | – |
| Jul 2017 | 1,894 | 112.73B | 0 | 10,930,513 | 239,608 | 3,957,898 | – | – |
| Jun 2017 | 1,640 | 110.24B | 0 | 10,868,453 | 216,938 | 4,151,678 | – | – |
| May 2017 | 1,541 | 108.46B | 0 | 10,072,822 | 229,986 | 3,776,588 | – | – |
| Apr 2017 | 1,411 | 99.20B | 0 | 7,341,826 | 232,780 | 3,608,106 | – | – |
| Mar 2017 | 1,387 | 102.02B | 0 | 7,256,495 | 245,227 | 3,785,778 | – | – |
| Feb 2017 | 1,306 | 97.71B | 0 | 2,985,147 | 195,525 | 3,466,858 | – | – |
| Jan 2017 | 1,215 | 104.71B | 0 | 10,457,121 | 238,154 | 3,297,578 | – | – |
| Dec 2016 | 1,151 | 120.94B | 0 | 7,330,991 | 366,991 | 1,840,187 | – | – |
| Nov 2016 | 1,038 | 113.01B | 0 | 8,913,607 | 416,860 | 2,327,294 | – | – |
| Oct 2016 | 993 | 101.78B | 0 | 2,225,847 | 233,669 | 744,154 | – | – |
| Sep 2016 | 939 | 98.24B | 0 | 1,222,348 | 247,779 | 731,996 | – | – |
| Aug 2016 | 901 | 97.30B | 0 | 1,762,061 | 292,448 | 704,493 | – | – |
| Jul 2016 | 802 | 96.58B | 0 | 1,205,007 | 283,966 | 739,084 | – | – |
| Jun 2016 | 658 | 106.14B | 0 | 1,357,124 | 246,133 | 749,733 | – | – |
| May 2016 | 544 | 115.75B | 0 | 10,378,326 | 257,182 | 792,390 | – | – |
| Apr 2016 | 541 | 110.68B | 0 | 7,093,255 | 237,303 | 1,705,186 | – | – |
| Mar 2016 | 539 | 127.76B | 0 | 1,609,854 | 250,650 | 4,611,903 | – | – |
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.