.xxx

35,631 domains as of 24 Sep 2026

Domains
35,631
24 Sep 2026
30-day change
▼ -146
-0.41%
Signed in root
✔ Yes
DS record present
Type
Sponsored
ASCII
Registrar figures are for May 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
ICM Registry LLC
Technical backend
ARI Registry Services (GoDaddy Registry) via ns ptr
Delegated
unknown
Nameservers
a.nic.xxx, b.nic.xxx, c.nic.xxx, x.nic.xxx, y.nic.xxx, z.nic.xxx
RDAP
https://rdap.nic.xxx
Zone data
CZDS access approved — counted daily

Do people keep it?

all renewal rates ›

Source: ICANN monthly registry reports

Of the 36,761 domains that came up for renewal between Jun 2025 and May 2026, the share renewed rather than deleted. How this is computed.

Keep rate
89.38%
above .com/.net/.org
Renewed
32,856
in twelve months
Deleted
3,905
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 11 of the 109 reporting here. This grouping is our inference, not ICANN's.

Month ‹ › May 2024 latest
GoDaddy — 10,687 (23.76%)Newfold Digital — 6,115 (13.59%)CSC Corporate Domains, Inc. — 5,215 (11.59%)MarkMonitor Inc. — 2,877 (6.4%)Tucows — 1,724 (3.83%)Key-Systems — 1,558 (3.46%)Namecheap — 1,456 (3.24%)1API GmbH — 1,011 (2.25%)PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com — 868 (1.93%)Gandi SAS — 684 (1.52%)Other — 12,788 (28.43%)
44.98kreported May 2024
Share of .xxx by registrar
GoDaddy4 accreditations10,68723.76%
Newfold Digital3 accreditations6,11513.59%
CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.5,21511.59%
MarkMonitor Inc.2,8776.4%
Tucows2 accreditations1,7243.83%
Key-Systems1,5583.46%
Namecheap2 accreditations1,4563.24%
1API GmbH1,0112.25%
PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com8681.93%
Gandi SAS6841.52%
Other99 more12,78828.43%

Domains by month, Oct 2013 – 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.

Oct 2013 – May 2026 1y 3y 5y 10y All
30,46670,485110.50k150.52k190.54kOct 2013Jan 2020May 2026
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MonthDomainsChangeRegistrarsNet addsDeletes
May 2026 41,755 ▲ +239 126 503 281
Apr 2026 41,516 ▲ +10 126 227 253
Mar 2026 41,506 ▼ -207 126 142 364
Feb 2026 41,713 ▼ -584 126 122 691
Jan 2026 42,297 ▼ -344 125 188 551
Dec 2025 42,641 ▼ -161 126 130 266

Showing the latest 6 of 152 months in this range. Show all 152.

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
35,59635,64935,70335,75635,80912 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
+1030-10312 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
Jan 2018 124 1.15B 0 663 3,647 15,732 – –
Dec 2017 124 1.20B 0 589 1,098 25,590 – –
Nov 2017 124 944.01M 0 1,711 468 10,478 – –
Oct 2017 123 947.51M 0 65,491 329 63,023 – –
Sep 2017 122 953.69M 0 439 1,842 2,628 – –
Aug 2017 123 949.99M 0 96,315 411 1,993 – –
Jul 2017 122 985.51M 0 8,938 1,020 5,343 – –
Jun 2017 122 1.07B 0 680 2,237 4,799 – –
May 2017 124 1.09B 0 2,754 1,421 9,878 – –
Apr 2017 122 977.02M 0 6,562 3,277 15,112 – –
Mar 2017 123 1.14B 0 1,167 1,791 11,670 – –
Feb 2017 121 1.04B 0 1,973 1,475 4,680 – –
Jan 2017 120 1.41B 0 543 5,745 5,875 – –
Dec 2016 121 1.20B 0 88,660 1,848 31,290 – –
Nov 2016 121 1.14B 0 15,338 828 17,394 – –
Oct 2016 122 1.22B 0 2,037 835 9,342 – –
Sep 2016 122 1.13B 0 909 233,356 448,720 – –
Aug 2016 122 1.09B 0 399 802,215 1,721,018 – –
Jul 2016 120 1.07B 0 2,228 403,773 1,656,865 – –
Jun 2016 120 1.44B 0 3,645 63,733 772,137 – –
May 2016 119 1.04B 0 681,536 1,921 8,021 – –
Apr 2016 118 1.10B 0 61,268 3,160 11,347 – –
Mar 2016 116 1.07B 0 3,239 1,375 7,848 – –
Feb 2016 116 928.92M 0 713 1,663 6,737 – –
Jan 2016 114 1.14B 0 36,384 5,662 7,112 – –
Dec 2015 112 1.25B 0 5,826 1,324 36,044 – –
Nov 2015 110 1.28B 0 1,182 629 15,062 – –
Oct 2015 109 912.55M 0 1,286 454 12,706 – –
Sep 2015 109 663.27M 0 6,170 608 2,262 – –
Aug 2015 108 615.35M 0 1,029 640 2,168 – –
Jul 2015 105 570.32M 0 554 1,238 1,723 – –
Jun 2015 105 359.37M 0 11,824 2,920 2,344 – –
May 2015 104 439.14M 0 1,087 1,002 7,841 – –
Apr 2015 105 525.13M 0 37,153 1,156 3,452 – –

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.