We discovered 229,466 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 206,637 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 418 gTLDs. This is 14.7% lower than yesterday’s May 02, 2026 total of 242,298.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 10.9 avg length | 63.7% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (94.4%) | 2-5 years (5.4%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (18.2%) | Vercel (0.6%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.3%) | Squarespace (1.5%) | Afternic (0.9%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (112,504), .top (22,143), .org (6,908).
- .com: 112,504
- .top: 22,143
- .org: 6,908
- .net: 6,662
- .online: 5,414
- .cfd: 5,304
- .xyz: 4,663
- .vip: 4,246
- .store: 3,510
- .site: 3,061
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 112,504 domains
We discovered 112,504 .com domains in today’s report, a 10.4% decrease from yesterday’s 125,604. Of these, 111,321 were registered on May 02, 2026, 884 on May 01, 2026.
- Godaddy: 21,334 (19.0%)
- Namecheap: 11,860 (10.5%)
- Namesilo: 7,368 (6.5%)
- Hostinger: 6,439 (5.7%)
- Cloudflare: 6,097 (5.4%)
- Squarespace: 5,661 (5.0%)
- Namebright: 4,589 (4.1%)
- Realtimeregister: 3,907 (3.5%)
- Gname: 3,504 (3.1%)
- Tucows: 2,886 (2.6%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.1 avg length | 73.3% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.6%) | 2-5 years (8.0%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (16.5%) | Vercel (0.7%) | WordPress.com (0.4%) | Wix (1.9%) | Squarespace (2.5%) | Afternic (1.3%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: existenceisthemiracleawarenessisitswitnessresponsibilityisit.com (60 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 6×6.com (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: eloriait.com
- Listed for sale: indiatreat.com
.top, 22,143 domains
We discovered 22,143 .top domains in today’s report, a 157.1% increase from yesterday’s 8,612. Of these, 22,080 were registered on May 02, 2026, 29 on May 01, 2026.
- Godaddy: 16,279 (73.5%)
- Namesilo: 1,795 (8.1%)
- Dynadot: 1,065 (4.8%)
- Spaceship: 844 (3.8%)
- Gname: 524 (2.4%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 5.7 avg length | 11.2% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.7%) | 2-5 years (0.3%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (6.2%)
Burst signal: 157.1% day-over-day increase. With 6.2% on Cloudflare DNS, more of these domains appear directed toward end-user use than resale.
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 11.2% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: apiingalwadautomotivegroupapimechmotors.top (39 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 7ys.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: nyctosmia.top
- Listed for sale: pasadena.top
.org, 6,908 domains
We discovered 6,908 .org domains in today’s report, a 16.0% decrease from yesterday’s 8,228. Of these, 6,864 were registered on May 02, 2026, 3 on May 01, 2026.
- Namecheap: 1,481 (21.4%)
- Godaddy: 1,009 (14.6%)
- Cloudflare: 603 (8.7%)
- Ionos: 587 (8.5%)
- Squarespace: 489 (7.1%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.2 avg length | 79.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (93.3%) | 2-5 years (6.3%) | >5 years (0.4%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (20.6%) | Vercel (0.6%) | WordPress.com (0.8%) | Wix (1.7%) | Afternic (1.8%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: desasehat-prodigizidandietetika-poltekkdi.org (41 chars)
- Shortest SLD: v6o.org (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: tgav.org
- Listed for sale: txoi.org
.net, 6,662 domains
We discovered 6,662 .net domains in today’s report, a 9.0% decrease from yesterday’s 7,322. Of these, 3 were registered on May 02, 2026, 6,633 on May 01, 2026.
- Godaddy: 1,289 (19.5%)
- Namecheap: 780 (11.8%)
- Cloudflare: 513 (7.8%)
- Squarespace: 457 (6.9%)
- Namebright: 442 (6.7%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.4 avg length | 75.8% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (89.5%) | 2-5 years (10.1%) | >5 years (0.5%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (18.2%) | Vercel (0.4%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (3.7%) | Squarespace (3.3%) | Afternic (0.3%) | Sedo (0.1%)
Anomaly signal: Only 3 domains registered on May 02, 2026 appears in today’s sample, compared with 6,633 from May 01, 2026. This indicates a delay in zone file updates from the registry, not an actual drop in registrations.
Examples
- Longest SLD: photosfromadyingalzheimersbrain-ajourneyoffaithandhope.net (54 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 64r.net (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: ustatus.net
- Listed for sale: playgtavi.net
.online, 5,414 domains
We discovered 5,414 .online domains in today’s report, a 9.8% decrease from yesterday’s 6,004. Of these, 5,131 were registered on May 02, 2026, 0 on May 01, 2026.
- Hostinger: 961 (17.8%)
- Namecheap: 918 (17.0%)
- Key-systems: 508 (9.4%)
- Reg: 487 (9.0%)
- Godaddy: 481 (8.9%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.5 avg length | 78.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (98.4%) | 2-5 years (1.6%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (20.4%) | Vercel (0.8%) | WordPress.com (0.4%) | Wix (0.3%) | Afternic (0.1%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: q2ingressos-renato-albani-testando-piadas-pagamento.online (51 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 40x.online (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: culicaatje.online
- Listed for sale: odamail.online
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 03, 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.