.photo

16,339 domains as of 24 Sep 2026

Domains
16,339
24 Sep 2026
30-day change
▲ +103
0.63%
Signed in root
✔ Yes
DS record present
Type
Generic
ASCII
Registrar figures are for September 2024. 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
Registry Services, LLC
Technical backend
ARI Registry Services (GoDaddy Registry) via ns ptr
Delegated
18 Jan 2014
Nameservers
a.nic.photo, b.nic.photo, c.nic.photo, x.nic.photo, y.nic.photo, z.nic.photo
RDAP
https://rdap.nic.photo
Zone data
CZDS access approved — counted daily

Do people keep it?

all renewal rates ›

Source: ICANN monthly registry reports

Of the 28,914 domains that came up for renewal between Jun 2025 and May 2026, the share renewed rather than deleted. How this is computed.

Keep rate
42.62%
below .com/.net/.org
Renewed
12,322
in twelve months
Deleted
16,592
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 102 reporting here. This grouping is our inference, not ICANN's.

Month ‹ › Sep 2024 latest
Gname.com Pte. Ltd. — 7,327 (26.44%)Dynadot Inc — 3,193 (11.52%)Namecheap — 3,072 (11.09%)1API GmbH — 1,707 (6.16%)Tucows — 1,598 (5.77%)eNom, LLC — 1,035 (3.73%)Key-Systems — 1,022 (3.69%)OVH sas — 842 (3.04%)IONOS SE — 799 (2.88%)Porkbun LLC — 614 (2.22%)Other — 6,504 (23.47%)
27.71kreported Sep 2024
Share of .photo by registrar
Gname.com Pte. Ltd.7,32726.44%
Dynadot Inc3,19311.52%
Namecheap2 accreditations3,07211.09%
1API GmbH1,7076.16%
Tucows2 accreditations1,5985.77%
eNom, LLC1,0353.73%
Key-Systems1,0223.69%
OVH sas8423.04%
IONOS SE7992.88%
Porkbun LLC6142.22%
Other92 more6,50423.47%

Domains by month, May 2025 – 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 2025 – May 2026 1y 3y 5y 10y All
15,22619,27923,33327,38631,439May 2025Nov 2025May 2026
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MonthDomainsChangeRegistrarsNet addsDeletes
May 2026 16,462 ▲ +118 120 316 200
Apr 2026 16,344 ▼ -93 119 222 320
Mar 2026 16,437 ▼ -19 120 285 304
Feb 2026 16,456 ▼ -338 120 230 567
Jan 2026 16,794 ▼ -923 119 243 1,187
Dec 2025 17,717 ▼ -2,040 117 213 2,248

Showing the latest 6 of 13 months in this range. Show all 13.

Domains by day, 12 Aug 2026 – 24 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 – 24 Sep 2026 30d All
16,18116,22416,26616,30816,35112 Aug 262 Sep 2624 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
+210-2112 Aug 2624 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
May 2026 228 0 973.93k 320 288 777 27 1
Apr 2026 225 447.34M 818.02k 309 223 846 – –
Mar 2026 222 514.11M 820.24k 39,749 352 1,031 – –
Feb 2026 222 447.53M 681.39k 231 318 775 – –
Jan 2026 221 476.13M 756.99k 7,211 406 854 – –
Dec 2025 215 934.10M 816.52k 213 1,391 707 – –
Nov 2025 213 466.44M 853.77k 666 1,832 839 – –
Oct 2025 211 537.10M 984.72k 37,286 3,193 827 – –
Sep 2025 171 501.16M 936.02k 2,627 6,170 702 – –
Aug 2025 171 551.79M 817.67k 228 2,745 772 – –
Jul 2025 167 537.34M 611.44k 208 362 750 – –
Jun 2025 158 527.65M 638.38k 177 270 691 – –
May 2025 157 567.46M 548.21k 2,223 293 740 – –
Apr 2025 156 558.02M 569.35k 183 235 776 – –
Mar 2025 155 639.99M 515.09k 1,856 249 922 – –
Feb 2025 152 541.56M 409.22k 239 251 691 – –
Jan 2025 150 540.70M 395.21k 291 232 770 – –
Dec 2024 146 502.00M 424.34k 296 275 699 – –
Nov 2024 146 492.69M 438.60k 1,219 246 648 – –
Oct 2024 145 536.54M 267.46k 1,740 226 1,418 – –
Sep 2024 143 448.78M 102.84k 2,366 251 699 – –
Aug 2024 143 480.81M 122.63k 5,466 257 729 – –
Jul 2024 131 402.99M 91.24k 3,606 221 732 – –
Jun 2024 131 345.95M 54.03k 262 255 678 – –
May 2024 130 354.87M 45.68k 193 276 758 – –
Apr 2024 127 424.33M 53.21k 173 257 814 – –
Mar 2024 123 357.64M 41.41k 165 281 933 – –
Feb 2024 122 352.84M 37.24k 171 268 741 – –
Jan 2024 120 362.10M 43.52k 208 265 757 – –
Dec 2023 119 363.44M 49.50k 159 273 1,255 – –
Nov 2023 117 325.65M 48.55k 194 263 806 – –
Oct 2023 117 318.08M 0 197 258 700 – –
Sep 2023 115 0 0 173 195 705 – –
Aug 2023 113 0 0 19 25 37 – –
Jul 2023 258 193.24M 0 271 89 52 – –
Jun 2023 257 182.78M 0 301 216 65 – –
May 2023 257 198.39M 0 537 255 38 – –
Apr 2023 256 192.40M 0 973 110 59 – –
Mar 2023 256 171.29M 0 266 56 73 – –
Feb 2023 255 201.58M 0 197 62 121 – –
Jan 2023 255 215.81M 0 193 97 85 – –
Dec 2022 255 173.54M 0 146 107 55 – –
Nov 2022 236 62.77M 0 191 87 51 – –
Oct 2022 235 70.53M 0 172 96 73 – –
Sep 2022 235 67.17M 0 140 109 55 – –
Aug 2022 235 66.75M 0 165 87 53 – –
Jul 2022 235 61.13M 0 154 46 55 – –
Jun 2022 237 55.98M 0 73 48 69 – –
May 2022 237 51.26M 0 135 67 46 – –
Apr 2022 236 51.78M 0 340 70 42 – –
Mar 2022 221 55.08M 0 100 1 64 – –
Feb 2022 221 73.45M 0 125 38 107 – –
Jan 2022 221 102.01M 0 64 69 61 – –
Dec 2021 221 121.05M 0 95 34 41 – –
Nov 2021 221 133.02M 0 129 33 39 – –
Oct 2021 221 147.80M 0 112 24 47 – –
Sep 2021 221 131.96M 0 98 1 49 – –
Aug 2021 221 137.46M 0 135 39 43 – –
Jul 2021 221 274.93M 0 117 34 45 – –
Jun 2021 221 245.47M 0 63 6 59 – –
May 2021 221 272.74M 0 63 23 46 – –
Apr 2021 221 177.11M 0 10 31 41 – –
Mar 2021 221 143.99M 0 31 5 4 – –
Feb 2021 221 93.50M 0 2 23 110 – –
Jan 2021 221 92.75M 0 5 21 78 – –
Dec 2020 221 91.85M 0 79 34 48 – –
Nov 2020 221 147.05M 0 35 20 47 – –
Oct 2020 221 195.39M 0 28 26 41 – –
Sep 2020 221 174.75M 0 30 35 44 – –
Aug 2020 220 187.43M 0 28 41 39 – –
Jul 2020 219 31.17M 0 21 60 43 – –
Jun 2020 219 97.36M 0 33 4,147 68 – –
May 2020 219 170.70M 0 29 1,670 49 – –
Apr 2020 217 227.89M 0 18 52 53 – –
Mar 2020 213 220.45M 0 26 45 58 – –
Feb 2020 212 175.87M 0 24 25 102 – –
Jan 2020 212 174.10M 0 28 32 74 – –
Dec 2019 212 187.90M 0 23 37 40 – –
Nov 2019 211 208.47M 0 27 21 43 – –
Oct 2019 210 168.40M 0 31 34 37 – –
Sep 2019 210 145.19M 0 20 53 38 – –
Aug 2019 210 152.78M 0 29 37 46 – –
Jul 2019 210 80.17M 0 34 67 40 – –
Jun 2019 210 68.68M 0 21 46 49 – –
May 2019 209 78.19M 0 75 104 67 – –
Apr 2019 207 75.77M 0 5,638 67 56 – –
Mar 2019 206 78.58M 0 24 37 80 – –
Feb 2019 206 66.97M 0 30 34 116 – –
Jan 2019 203 80.12M 0 34 36 108 – –
Dec 2018 204 101.05M 0 31 51 52 – –
Nov 2018 203 21.14M 0 33 49 47 – –
Oct 2018 203 85.64M 0 30 40 39 – –
Sep 2018 202 147.24M 0 34 42 41 – –
Aug 2018 202 134.02M 0 40 57 36 – –
Jul 2018 201 161.50M 0 63 57 47 – –
Jun 2018 198 146.86M 0 86 50 67 – –
May 2018 197 148.95M 0 44 57 59 – –
Apr 2018 196 91.84M 0 121 106 57 – –
Mar 2018 195 73.73M 0 36 45 82 – –
Feb 2018 194 116.40M 0 30 33 122 – –

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.