On April 18, 2026, a total of 257,643 newly registered domains were recorded across all tracked gTLDs by ABTdomain. This count represents the daily inflow into the active domain pool within the domain lifecycle, as captured from ABTdomain’s daily zone file snapshot. Note that “newly registered” domains include registrations from April 16 through April 18, 2026, as reflected in the snapshot data.
TLD Distribution
The distribution of newly registered domains by TLD shows that .com accounts for the largest share with 136,766 domains, representing 53.1% of the total. Following .com, the .top TLD recorded 14,665 domains (5.7%), .xyz had 9,879 registrations (3.8%), .org totaled 9,721 domains (3.8%), and .net saw 8,010 domains (3.1%). Other notable TLDs include .online with 7,159 (2.8%), .info with 4,997 (1.9%), .store with 4,812 (1.9%), .site with 4,552 (1.8%), and .vip with 4,309 (1.7%). The remaining TLDs combined accounted for 20.5% of the total registrations.
Top 10 TLDs by registration count:
- .com: 136,766
- .top: 14,665
- .xyz: 9,879
- .org: 9,721
- .net: 8,010
- .online: 7,159
- .info: 4,997
- .store: 4,812
- .site: 4,552
- .vip: 4,309
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar Distribution
.com, 136,766 domains
The .com TLD recorded 136,766 newly registered domains on April 18, 2026. The top 10 registrars for .com accounted for the following shares:
- GoDaddy: 17.5%
- Namecheap: 12.3%
- Namesrs: 5.7%
- Hostinger: 5.7%
- Squarespace: 5.4%
- Cloudflare: 4.9%
- Publicdomainregistry: 3.6%
- Namebright: 3.0%
- Tucows: 2.8%
- Spaceship: 2.6%
Registrar concentration among the top 10 registrars is 63.1% for .com registrations.
.top, 14,665 domains
The .top TLD had 14,665 newly registered domains. Registrar shares were as follows:
- GoDaddy: 41.9%
- Namesilo: 17.5%
- Dynadot: 16.9%
- Spaceship: 4.8%
- Gname: 4.6%
The top 5 registrars accounted for 85.7% of .top registrations.
.xyz, 9,879 domains
For .xyz, there were 9,879 new domains registered, with the following top 5 registrar shares:
- Spaceship: 53.3%
- Dynadot: 10.2%
- Namecheap: 9.0%
- GoDaddy: 7.9%
- Namesilo: 2.3%
Registrar concentration for the top 5 is 82.7% for .xyz new registrations.
.org, 9,721 domains
The .org TLD saw 9,721 new registrations with these top 5 registrar percentages:
- Namecheap: 18.2%
- GoDaddy: 14.6%
- Dynadot: 8.3%
- Ionos: 8.1%
- Cloudflare: 7.7%
The top 5 registrars accounted for 57.0% of .org registrations.
.net, 8,010 domains
The .net TLD recorded 8,010 newly registered domains. Registrar shares for the top 5 were:
- GoDaddy: 18.7%
- Namecheap: 11.9%
- Squarespace: 7.2%
- Cloudflare: 6.7%
- Namesilo: 6.0%
The top 5 registrars held 50.5% of .net registrations.
Lifecycle Note
These newly registered domains now enter the active domain pool across their respective TLDs. Over time, they will either renew and remain active or appear in expiration tracking, allowing further lifecycle monitoring.
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