.pay

1,146 domains as of 10 Nov 2026

Domains
1,146
10 Nov 2026
30-day change
▲ +101
9.67%
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
Generic
Technical backend
Nominet via rdap host
Delegated
10 Aug 2016
Nameservers
dns1.nic.pay, dns2.nic.pay, dns3.nic.pay, dns4.nic.pay, dnsa.nic.pay, dnsb.nic.pay, dnsc.nic.pay, dnsd.nic.pay
RDAP
https://rdap.nominet.uk/pay
Zone data
CZDS access approved — counted daily

Registrar share

individual · combined

Source: ICANN monthly registry reports

Related accreditations combined into corporate families. This grouping is our inference, not ICANN's.

Month ‹ › May 2026 latest
MarkMonitor Inc. — 196 (26.13%)CSC Corporate Domains, Inc. — 155 (20.67%)101domain GRS Limited — 119 (15.87%)Lexsynergy Limited — 75 (10%)Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE — 58 (7.73%)Gandi SAS — 54 (7.2%)Tucows — 23 (3.07%)1API GmbH — 18 (2.4%)GoDaddy — 10 (1.33%)EuroDNS S.A. — 9 (1.2%)Other — 33 (4.4%)
750reported May 2026
Share of .pay by registrar
MarkMonitor Inc.19626.13%
CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.15520.67%
101domain GRS Limited11915.87%
Lexsynergy Limited7510%
Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE587.73%
Gandi SAS547.2%
Tucows233.07%
1API GmbH182.4%
GoDaddy101.33%
EuroDNS S.A.91.2%
Other9 more334.4%

Domains by month, Aug 2016 – Jul 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.

Aug 2016 – Jul 2026 1y 3y 5y All
02895798681,158Aug 2016Jul 2021Jul 2026
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MonthDomainsChangeRegistrarsNet addsDeletes
Jul 2026 1,072 ▲ +190 22 198 10
Jun 2026 882 ▲ +132 20 143 0
May 2026 750 ▲ +339 19 404 1
Apr 2026 411 ▲ +409 15 323 0
Mar 2026 2 0 2 0 0
Feb 2026 2 0 2 0 0

Showing the latest 6 of 120 months in this range. Show all 120.

Domains by day, 12 Aug 2026 – 10 Nov 2026

Source: Daily zone files

Counted from daily zone files. Names with at least one NS record or a DS record.

12 Aug 2026 – 10 Nov 2026 30d 90d All
1,0061,0431,0811,1191,15612 Aug 2626 Sep 2610 Nov 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
+230-2312 Aug 2610 Nov 26

Registrars

Registrar figures are for July 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
EnCirca, Inc. 1
0.1%
0 0 0
Reserved for ICANN's Registry SLA Monitoring System transactions reporting 1
0.1%
0 0 0
Reserved for non-billable transactions where Registry Operator acts as Registrar 1
0.1%
0 0 0
Squarespace Domains II LLC 4
0.5%
▲ +2 0 10
NameWeb BVBA 4
0.5%
0 0 0
NETIM SAS 4
0.5%
▲ +3 0 0
Entorno Digital, S.A. 5
0.7%
▲ +3 0 0
Marcaria International LLC 5
0.7%
0 0 0
COREhub, S.R.L. 11
1.5%
0 0 0
Safenames Ltd 11
1.5%
▲ +11 0 0
NicNames, Inc. 11
1.5%
▲ +2 0 0
Secura GmbH 14
1.9%
▲ +2 0 0
EuroDNS S.A. 14
1.9%
▲ +2 0 0
1API GmbH 29
3.9%
▲ +10 0 0
GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC 32
4.3%
0 7 0
Ascio Technologies, Inc. Danmark - Filial af Ascio technologies, Inc. USA 42
5.6%
▲ +12 0 0
Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE 69
9.2%
▲ +10 0 0
Gandi SAS 84
11.2%
▲ +26 0 0
Lexsynergy Limited 99
13.2%
▲ +12 0 0
101domain GRS Limited 196
26.1%
▲ +62 0 0
CSC Corporate Domains, Inc. 206
27.5%
▲ +35 0 0
MarkMonitor Inc. 229
30.5%
▲ +6 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
Mar 2018 2 34.58M 0 0 0 0 – –
Feb 2018 2 31.46M 0 0 0 0 – –
Jan 2018 2 34.16M 0 0 0 0 – –
Dec 2017 2 35.37M 0 0 0 0 – –
Nov 2017 2 0 0 0 0 0 – –
Oct 2017 2 29.51M 0 0 0 0 – –
Sep 2017 2 31.70M 0 0 0 0 – –
Aug 2017 2 27.56M 0 0 0 0 – –
Jul 2017 2 31.16M 0 0 0 0 – –
Jun 2017 2 31.91M 0 0 0 0 – –
May 2017 2 32.44M 0 0 0 0 – –
Apr 2017 1 27.04M 0 0 0 0 – –
Mar 2017 1 31.34M 0 0 0 0 – –
Feb 2017 3 29.08M 0 0 0 0 – –
Jan 2017 0 38.75M 0 0 0 0 – –
Dec 2016 0 54.25M 0 0 0 0 – –
Nov 2016 0 43.28M 0 0 0 0 – –
Oct 2016 0 30.25M 0 0 0 0 – –
Sep 2016 0 31.26M 0 0 0 0 – –
Aug 2016 0 21.07M 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 July 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.