.phd
2,686 domains as of 10 Nov 2026
Registry details
From the IANA Root Zone Database and RDAP bootstrap.
- Registry operator
- Generic
- Technical backend
- Google Registry via ns suffix
- Delegated
- 29 Jun 2017
- Nameservers
- ns-tld1.charlestonroadregistry.com, ns-tld2.charlestonroadregistry.com, ns-tld3.charlestonroadregistry.com, ns-tld4.charlestonroadregistry.com, ns-tld5.charlestonroadregistry.com
- RDAP
- https://pubapi.registry.google/rdap
- Zone data
- CZDS access approved — counted daily
Do people keep it?
all renewal rates ›Source: ICANN monthly registry reports
Of the 1,969 domains that came up for renewal between Aug 2025 and Jul 2026, the share renewed rather than deleted. How this is computed.
For comparison, the median new gTLD keeps 67.40% and .com, .net and .org together keep 73.18%.
Registrar share
individual · combinedSource: ICANN monthly registry reports
Related accreditations combined into corporate families, folding 7 of the 39 reporting here. This grouping is our inference, not ICANN's.
| Namecheap2 accreditations | 525 | 20.74% |
|---|---|---|
| Squarespace Domains II LLC | 451 | 17.82% |
| Cloudflare, Inc. | 368 | 14.54% |
| GoDaddy3 accreditations | 311 | 12.29% |
| Porkbun LLC | 237 | 9.36% |
| Tucows2 accreditations | 136 | 5.37% |
| Automattic Inc. | 121 | 4.78% |
| Name.com, Inc. | 68 | 2.69% |
| Dynadot Inc | 67 | 2.65% |
| MarkMonitor Inc. | 60 | 2.37% |
| Other29 more | 187 | 7.39% |
2,531 attributed to registrars in Jul 2026, against 2,686 in 10 Nov 2026’s zone — the zone is 155 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, Jun 2017 – 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.
| Month | Domains | Change | Registrars | Net adds | Deletes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2026 | 2,531 | ▼ -5 | 43 | 67 | 64 |
| Jun 2026 | 2,536 | ▲ +78 | 42 | 117 | 25 |
| May 2026 | 2,458 | ▲ +62 | 41 | 67 | 15 |
| Apr 2026 | 2,396 | ▲ +33 | 41 | 45 | 22 |
| Mar 2026 | 2,363 | ▲ +37 | 40 | 59 | 25 |
| Feb 2026 | 2,326 | ▲ +28 | 40 | 55 | 25 |
Showing the latest 6 of 110 months in this range. Show all 110.
Domains by day, 11 Oct 2026 – 10 Nov 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2018 | 54 | 19.27M | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – |
| Feb 2018 | 52 | 17.33M | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – |
| Jan 2018 | 52 | 19.06M | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – |
| Dec 2017 | 52 | 24.85M | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – |
| Nov 2017 | 52 | 17.49M | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – |
| Oct 2017 | 52 | 17.58M | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | – |
| Sep 2017 | 0 | 15.19M | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – |
| Aug 2017 | 0 | 16.35M | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – |
| Jul 2017 | 0 | 16.72M | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – |
| Jun 2017 | 0 | 4.17M | 0 | 0 | 96 | 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.