We discovered 263,038 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 242,298 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 446 gTLDs. This is 5.5% lower than yesterday’s May 01, 2026 total of 256,355.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.4 avg length | 72.3% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (93.8%) | 2-5 years (5.9%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (20.9%) | Vercel (0.6%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.3%) | Squarespace (1.6%) | Afternic (8.5%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (125,604), .xyz (24,301), .top (8,612).
- .com: 125,604
- .xyz: 24,301
- .top: 8,612
- .org: 8,228
- .cfd: 7,727
- .net: 7,322
- .online: 6,004
- .info: 5,040
- .store: 4,423
- .site: 4,083
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 125,604 domains
We discovered 125,604 .com domains in today’s report, a 11.6% decrease from yesterday’s 142,058. Of these, 124,558 were registered on May 01, 2026, 700 on Apr 30, 2026.
- Godaddy: 23,058 (18.4%)
- Namecheap: 15,803 (12.6%)
- Squarespace: 7,278 (5.8%)
- Hostinger: 7,023 (5.6%)
- Cloudflare: 6,908 (5.5%)
- Namebright: 4,493 (3.6%)
- Namesilo: 3,898 (3.1%)
- Realtimeregister: 3,844 (3.1%)
- Gname: 3,835 (3.1%)
- Name: 3,766 (3.0%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.6 avg length | 75.4% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (90.3%) | 2-5 years (9.3%) | >5 years (0.4%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (19.8%) | Vercel (0.8%) | WordPress.com (0.4%) | Wix (2.0%) | Squarespace (2.9%) | Afternic (1.2%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.3%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: 414213562373095048801688724209698078569671875376948073176679737.com (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: kda3.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: dbcrate.com
- Listed for sale: coinhip.com
.xyz, 24,301 domains
We discovered 24,301 .xyz domains in today’s report, a 309.0% increase from yesterday’s 5,942. Of these, 24,261 were registered on May 01, 2026, 14 on Apr 30, 2026.
- Dynadot: 11,720 (48.2%)
- Alibaba cloud: 8,790 (36.2%)
- Namecheap: 1,064 (4.4%)
- Namesilo: 438 (1.8%)
- Name: 422 (1.7%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 7.7 avg length | 89.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.6%) | 2-5 years (0.3%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (5.2%) | Vercel (0.3%) | Afternic (76.6%) | Sedo (0.1%)
Burst signal: 309.0% day-over-day increase. With 76.7% listed for sale, more of these domains appear directed toward resale than end-user use.
TLD opportunity signal: Pure-alphabet share at 89.6% combined with 76.7% on resale platforms suggests this TLD may have promotional or market stimulus driving investment activity. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: garez-vous-rapidement-et-intelligemment-paris-en-ligne.xyz (54 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 1l3.xyz (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: nicenehome.xyz
- Listed for sale: iovera.xyz
.top, 8,612 domains
We discovered 8,612 .top domains in today’s report, a 54.1% decrease from yesterday’s 18,743. Of these, 8,568 were registered on May 01, 2026, 25 on Apr 30, 2026.
- Namesilo: 2,816 (32.7%)
- Spaceship: 2,265 (26.3%)
- Dynadot: 1,412 (16.4%)
- Godaddy: 545 (6.3%)
- Alibaba cloud: 332 (3.9%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 8.5 avg length | 42.2% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.0%) | 2-5 years (0.6%) | >5 years (0.4%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (28.5%)
Burst signal: 54.1% day-over-day decrease. With 28.5% on Cloudflare DNS, more of these domains appear directed toward end-user use than resale.
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 42.2% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: bandit-stavshiy-starsheklassnikom-lordserial.top (44 chars)
- Shortest SLD: gu1.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: aabazop.top
.org, 8,228 domains
We discovered 8,228 .org domains in today’s report, a 11.4% decrease from yesterday’s 9,287. Of these, 8,168 were registered on May 01, 2026, 7 on Apr 30, 2026.
- Namecheap: 1,310 (15.9%)
- Godaddy: 1,172 (14.2%)
- Dynadot: 887 (10.8%)
- Cloudflare: 672 (8.2%)
- Squarespace: 672 (8.2%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 13.0 avg length | 83.3% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.1%) | 2-5 years (8.4%) | >5 years (0.5%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (22.1%) | Vercel (0.8%) | WordPress.com (0.7%) | Wix (2.1%) | Afternic (0.3%) | Sedo (0.2%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: the-national-association-for-the-advancement-of-transgen.org (56 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 3k1.org (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: infinaut.org
- Listed for sale: artfix.org
.cfd, 7,727 domains
We discovered 7,727 .cfd domains in today’s report, a 451.9% increase from yesterday’s 1,400. Of these, 7,707 were registered on May 01, 2026, 0 on Apr 30, 2026.
- Spaceship: 6,098 (78.9%)
- namemart pte. ltd.: 801 (10.4%)
- Namecheap: 290 (3.8%)
- Dnspod: 161 (2.1%)
- Dynadot: 110 (1.4%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 16.9 avg length | 11.0% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (100.0%) | 2-5 years (0.0%) | >5 years (0.0%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (29.6%)
Burst signal: 451.9% day-over-day increase. With 29.6% on Cloudflare DNS, more of these domains appear directed toward end-user use than resale.
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 11.0% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Short-term usage pattern: All domains are registered for exactly one year, with no resale-platform presence, indicating short-term usage intent. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: ms-grantherberdocsfilesdownload.cfd (31 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 6e4.cfd (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: hsex.cfd
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, May 02, 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.