.radio

2,944 domains as of 19 Sep 2026

Domains
2,944
19 Sep 2026
30-day change
▲ +63
2.19%
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
Digity, LLC
Technical backend
CentralNic (Team Internet) via rdap host
Delegated
12 Oct 2016
Nameservers
a.nic.radio, b.nic.radio, c.nic.radio, d.nic.radio
RDAP
https://rdap.centralnic.com/radio
Zone data
CZDS access approved — counted daily

Do people keep it?

all renewal rates ›

Source: ICANN monthly registry reports

Of the 2,371 domains that came up for renewal between Jun 2025 and May 2026, the share renewed rather than deleted. How this is computed.

Keep rate
99.83%
above .com/.net/.org
Renewed
2,367
in twelve months
Deleted
4
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. This grouping is our inference, not ICANN's.

Month May 2026
COREhub, S.R.L. — 1,747 (58.08%)Key-Systems — 232 (7.71%)MarkMonitor Inc. — 189 (6.28%)Tucows — 152 (5.05%)Gandi SAS — 105 (3.49%)Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE — 97 (3.22%)united-domains GmbH — 81 (2.69%)OVH sas — 62 (2.06%)101domain GRS Limited — 60 (1.99%)EnCirca, Inc. — 51 (1.7%)Other — 232 (7.71%)
3.01kreported May 2026
Share of .radio by registrar
COREhub, S.R.L.1,74758.08%
Key-Systems2327.71%
MarkMonitor Inc.1896.28%
Tucows1525.05%
Gandi SAS1053.49%
Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE973.22%
united-domains GmbH812.69%
OVH sas622.06%
101domain GRS Limited601.99%
EnCirca, Inc.511.7%
Other25 more2327.71%

3,008 attributed to registrars in May 2026, against 2,944 in 19 Sep 2026’s zone — the zone is 64 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, 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 All
2,9742,9893,0053,0213,036May 2025Nov 2025May 2026
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MonthDomainsChangeRegistrarsNet addsDeletes
May 2026 3,008 ▼ -12 35 25 0
Apr 2026 3,020 ▲ +12 35 32 0
Mar 2026 3,008 ▲ +13 35 55 3
Feb 2026 2,995 ▲ +17 36 44 1
Jan 2026 2,978 ▼ -54 36 34 0
Dec 2025 3,032 ▲ +13 35 35 0
Nov 2025 3,019 ▲ +8 35 34 0
Oct 2025 3,011 ▲ +10 35 34 0
Sep 2025 3,001 ▲ +3 35 33 0
Aug 2025 2,998 ▲ +13 35 34 0
Jul 2025 2,985 ▼ -8 36 27 0
Jun 2025 2,993 ▲ +1 36 24 0
May 2025 2,992 ▲ +12 36 37 0

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

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
2,8752,8932,9122,9312,94912 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
+570-5712 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.

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 36 27.15M 0 2,192 20 12
Dec 2017 36 29.11M 0 2,217 28 0
Nov 2017 36 23.87M 0 4,259 105 5
Oct 2017 34 18.89M 0 0 5 0
Sep 2017 34 20.70M 0 1 3 0
Aug 2017 34 17.53M 0 0 0 0
Jul 2017 3 16.37M 0 2 0 0
Jun 2017 3 15.88M 0 5 0 0
May 2017 3 15.73M 0 5 0 0
Apr 2017 3 13.91M 0 1 0 0
Mar 2017 3 14.80M 0 3 0 0
Feb 2017 2 12.83M 0 2 0 0
Jan 2017 2 13.30M 0 3 0 0
Dec 2016 2 19.36M 0 0 0 0
Nov 2016 2 13.15M 0 0 0 0
Oct 2016 2 7.71M 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.