We discovered 319,518 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 290,792 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 453 gTLDs. This is 8.4% higher than yesterday’s Apr 28, 2026 total of 268,374.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.1 avg length | 66.5% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (94.0%) | 2-5 years (5.7%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (21.0%) | Vercel (0.6%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.4%) | Squarespace (0.7%) | Afternic (0.8%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.3%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (152,085), .vip (33,326), .top (11,364).
- .com: 152,085
- .vip: 33,326
- .top: 11,364
- .org: 9,767
- .net: 8,192
- .online: 7,873
- .info: 6,821
- .xyz: 5,499
- .site: 5,118
- .store: 4,786
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 152,085 domains
We discovered 152,085 .com domains in today’s report, a 2.0% increase from yesterday’s 149,051. Of these, 150,618 were registered on Apr 28, 2026, 923 on Apr 27, 2026.
- Godaddy: 27,455 (18.1%)
- Namecheap: 16,652 (11.0%)
- Squarespace: 8,660 (5.7%)
- Hostinger: 8,051 (5.3%)
- Cloudflare: 7,784 (5.1%)
- Namebright: 5,338 (3.5%)
- Namesrs: 4,673 (3.1%)
- Tucows: 4,403 (2.9%)
- Spaceship: 4,249 (2.8%)
- Diymysite: 3,707 (2.4%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.8 avg length | 75.0% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (90.6%) | 2-5 years (9.1%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (18.3%) | Vercel (0.7%) | WordPress.com (0.4%) | Wix (2.2%) | Squarespace (1.4%) | Afternic (1.2%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.5%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: portal-lognetdeliv47streamii494947377283004034340-ifa-simulator.com (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: t621.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: takdp.com
- Listed for sale: squiden.com
.vip, 33,326 domains
We discovered 33,326 .vip domains in today’s report, a 723.9% increase from yesterday’s 4,045. Of these, 33,204 were registered on Apr 28, 2026, 0 on Apr 27, 2026.
- Godaddy: 30,190 (90.6%)
- Dynadot: 2,148 (6.4%)
- Gname: 259 (0.8%)
- Spaceship: 188 (0.6%)
- Nicenic: 160 (0.5%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 6.3 avg length | 16.2% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.9%) | 2-5 years (0.1%) | >5 years (0.0%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (3.1%)
Burst signal: 723.9% day-over-day increase. With 3.1% on Cloudflare DNS, more of these domains appear directed toward end-user use than resale.
Registrar concentration signal: Godaddy accounts for 90.6% of today’s registrations, with no domains observed on Afternic, Sedo, or Atom.com. Worth continued monitoring.
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 16.2% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: makingmoneyinthephilippinesphbonanza.vip (36 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 85k.vip (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: shyfap.vip
.top, 11,364 domains
We discovered 11,364 .top domains in today’s report, a 44.4% decrease from yesterday’s 20,450. Of these, 11,261 were registered on Apr 28, 2026, 47 on Apr 27, 2026.
- Namesilo: 3,773 (33.2%)
- Spaceship: 2,300 (20.2%)
- Dynadot: 1,158 (10.2%)
- Gname: 1,031 (9.1%)
- Alibaba cloud: 735 (6.5%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 7.8 avg length | 42.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.0%) | 2-5 years (0.7%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (25.3%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 42.6% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: gujaratvalastiffinandbulkfoodservices.top (37 chars)
- Shortest SLD: z7v.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: fayqufh.top
.org, 9,767 domains
We discovered 9,767 .org domains in today’s report, a 6.4% increase from yesterday’s 9,178. Of these, 9,702 were registered on Apr 28, 2026, 2 on Apr 27, 2026.
- Namecheap: 1,599 (16.4%)
- Godaddy: 1,416 (14.5%)
- Dynadot: 1,250 (12.8%)
- Ionos: 763 (7.8%)
- Cloudflare: 761 (7.8%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.9 avg length | 81.5% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.8%) | 2-5 years (7.6%) | >5 years (0.6%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (21.2%) | Vercel (0.5%) | WordPress.com (0.9%) | Wix (1.7%) | Squarespace (0.1%) | Afternic (0.4%) | Sedo (0.1%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: manifesto-applied-business-research-for-higher-education.org (56 chars)
- Shortest SLD: lv6.org (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: dmbpro.org
- Listed for sale: cliagent.org
.net, 8,192 domains
We discovered 8,192 .net domains in today’s report, a 54.5% increase from yesterday’s 5,301. Of these, 6 were registered on Apr 28, 2026, 8,157 on Apr 27, 2026.
- Godaddy: 1,447 (17.7%)
- Namecheap: 1,045 (12.8%)
- Dynadot: 659 (8.0%)
- Squarespace: 533 (6.5%)
- Cloudflare: 516 (6.3%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.0 avg length | 74.5% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (90.2%) | 2-5 years (9.3%) | >5 years (0.5%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (24.3%) | Vercel (0.4%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (3.6%) | Afternic (0.1%) | Sedo (0.1%)
Burst signal: 54.5% day-over-day increase. With 24.3% on Cloudflare DNS, more of these domains appear directed toward end-user use than resale.
Anomaly signal: Only 6 domains registered on Apr 28, 2026 appears in today’s sample, compared with 8,157 from Apr 27, 2026. This indicates a delay in zone file updates from the registry, not an actual drop in registrations.
Examples
- Longest SLD: ytrbnghujmnaswfgrtyehvbfgopmnjbhgytfrewsaqwertyfgvbcsaswerf.net (59 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 2wj.net (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: demigames.net
- Listed for sale: primerips.net
Continue exploring the lifecycle
- Browse historical Newly Registered Domains reports across all gTLDs: NRDS Intelligence Reports.
- Daily Active Domain Names Intelligence with active domain counts across TLDs. See the latest Active Domain Names Intelligence, Apr 29, 2026.
- Daily Top gTLD Rankings by active domain count: Top gTLDs.
- Search newly registered domains by keyword with DomainKits NRDs Search.
- Download daily Newly Registered Domains lists: DomainKits NRDs Database.
About this data: This report covers domains we discovered in zone files today and verified via WHOIS as registered within the past 30 days. Some TLDs are not available for our WHOIS verification, so their domains appear in our discovery pool but not in this report. For exact same-day registration counts, see DomainKits Trends or ABTdomain Daily JSON.