.rugby

515 domains as of 19 Sep 2026

Domains
515
19 Sep 2026
30-day change
▼ -2
-0.39%
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
World Rugby Strategic Developments Limited
Technical backend
ARI Registry Services (GoDaddy Registry) via ns ptr
Delegated
7 Apr 2017
Nameservers
a.nic.rugby, b.nic.rugby, c.nic.rugby, x.nic.rugby, y.nic.rugby, z.nic.rugby
RDAP
https://rdap.nic.rugby
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
Bombora Technologies Pty Ltd — 592 (74.65%)Dynadot Inc — 49 (6.18%)Porkbun LLC — 37 (4.67%)Gandi SAS — 29 (3.66%)Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE — 20 (2.52%)MarkMonitor Inc. — 12 (1.51%)CSC Corporate Domains, Inc. — 9 (1.13%)Lexsynergy Limited — 7 (0.88%)GMO Internet Group, Inc. d/b/a Onamae.com — 7 (0.88%)1API GmbH — 7 (0.88%)Other — 24 (3.03%)
793reported May 2026
Share of .rugby by registrar
Bombora Technologies Pty Ltd59274.65%
Dynadot Inc496.18%
Porkbun LLC374.67%
Gandi SAS293.66%
Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE202.52%
MarkMonitor Inc.121.51%
CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.91.13%
Lexsynergy Limited70.88%
GMO Internet Group, Inc. d/b/a Onamae.com70.88%
1API GmbH70.88%
Other12 more243.03%

793 attributed to registrars in May 2026, against 515 in 19 Sep 2026’s zone — the zone is 278 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
782795809822835May 2025Nov 2025May 2026
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MonthDomainsChangeRegistrarsNet addsDeletes
May 2026 793 ▲ +7 22 13 4
Apr 2026 786 ▼ -1 22 2 6
Mar 2026 787 ▼ -5 22 10 14
Feb 2026 792 ▲ +2 21 5 4
Jan 2026 790 ▲ +1 20 3 2
Dec 2025 789 0 20 6 6

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

Domains by day, 20 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.

20 Aug 2026 – 19 Sep 2026 30d All
51151251451651720 Aug 264 Sep 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
+40-420 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
Dec 2017 16 13.37M 0 0 0 0
Nov 2017 9 11.96M 0 0 0 0
Oct 2017 2 13.21M 0 0 0 0
Sep 2017 2 14.77M 0 0 0 0
Aug 2017 2 15.38M 0 0 0 0
Jul 2017 2 15.48M 0 2 0 0
Jun 2017 2 15.62M 0 0 0 0
May 2017 2 15.75M 0 0 0 0
Apr 2017 2 11.26M 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.