We discovered 196,134 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 174,957 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 431 gTLDs. This is 15.3% lower than yesterday’s May 03, 2026 total of 206,637.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.4 avg length | 68.8% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (93.5%) | 2-5 years (6.3%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (21.9%) | Vercel (0.8%) | WordPress.com (0.4%) | Wix (1.5%) | Squarespace (1.6%) | Afternic (1.2%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.1%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (98,898), .top (9,073), .org (6,211).
- .com: 98,898
- .top: 9,073
- .org: 6,211
- .net: 5,775
- .online: 5,737
- .cfd: 5,356
- .xyz: 4,731
- .store: 3,367
- .site: 3,185
- .vip: 3,012
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 98,898 domains
We discovered 98,898 .com domains in today’s report, a 12.1% decrease from yesterday’s 112,504. Of these, 97,716 were registered on May 03, 2026, 874 on May 02, 2026.
- Godaddy: 17,445 (17.6%)
- Namecheap: 10,903 (11.0%)
- Hostinger: 6,359 (6.4%)
- Cloudflare: 6,188 (6.3%)
- Squarespace: 5,488 (5.5%)
- Namebright: 4,549 (4.6%)
- Namesrs: 3,042 (3.1%)
- Realtimeregister: 3,014 (3.0%)
- Tucows: 3,001 (3.0%)
- Name: 2,691 (2.7%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.2 avg length | 75.3% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (90.3%) | 2-5 years (9.4%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (19.1%) | Vercel (0.9%) | WordPress.com (0.5%) | Wix (2.2%) | Squarespace (2.7%) | Afternic (1.6%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: reparacionymantenimientodeventanasendonostiasansebastian.com (56 chars)
- Shortest SLD: y52n.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: neavtopaz.com
- Listed for sale: aquateric.com
.top, 9,073 domains
We discovered 9,073 .top domains in today’s report, a 59.0% decrease from yesterday’s 22,143. Of these, 9,000 were registered on May 03, 2026, 28 on May 02, 2026.
- Dynadot: 2,674 (29.5%)
- Spaceship: 1,981 (21.8%)
- Namesilo: 1,827 (20.1%)
- Gname: 632 (7.0%)
- namemart pte. ltd.: 611 (6.7%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 7.8 avg length | 27.5% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.2%) | 2-5 years (0.5%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (30.3%)
Burst signal: 59.0% day-over-day decrease. With 30.3% on Cloudflare DNS, more of these domains appear directed toward end-user use than resale.
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 27.5% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: welcometo159welcometo369welcometo123impossible789impossible1.top (60 chars)
- Shortest SLD: fh0.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: vlrenevent.top
.org, 6,211 domains
We discovered 6,211 .org domains in today’s report, a 10.1% decrease from yesterday’s 6,908. Of these, 6,162 were registered on May 03, 2026, 2 on May 02, 2026.
- Namecheap: 1,026 (16.5%)
- Godaddy: 983 (15.8%)
- Cloudflare: 627 (10.1%)
- Ionos: 526 (8.5%)
- Squarespace: 437 (7.0%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.0 avg length | 81.3% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (93.2%) | 2-5 years (6.5%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (21.2%) | Vercel (0.9%) | WordPress.com (1.0%) | Wix (2.2%) | Afternic (0.7%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: onine-documenitationsimsravicingvrelidationnicfost0896039.org (57 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 25m.org (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: isvb.org
- Listed for sale: ctrip.org
.net, 5,775 domains
We discovered 5,775 .net domains in today’s report, a 13.3% decrease from yesterday’s 6,662. Of these, 4 were registered on May 03, 2026, 5,753 on May 02, 2026.
- Godaddy: 1,184 (20.9%)
- Namecheap: 634 (11.2%)
- Namebright: 454 (8.0%)
- Cloudflare: 428 (7.6%)
- Squarespace: 365 (6.4%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 10.8 avg length | 78.3% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.6%) | 2-5 years (7.8%) | >5 years (0.5%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (16.7%) | Vercel (0.3%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (2.7%) | Squarespace (3.0%) | Afternic (2.6%) | Sedo (0.1%)
Anomaly signal: Only 4 domains registered on May 03, 2026 appears in today’s sample, compared with 5,753 from May 02, 2026. This indicates a delay in zone file updates from the registry, not an actual drop in registrations.
Examples
- Longest SLD: cvdertybnhjuopmnjbhzsawerfdrtyeweuytgrfdewaqqsdfghzxcvbnjhgfds.net (62 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 2sm.net (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: nyxgrid.net
- Listed for sale: bprep.net
.online, 5,737 domains
We discovered 5,737 .online domains in today’s report, a 6.0% increase from yesterday’s 5,414. Of these, 5,527 were registered on May 03, 2026, 8 on May 02, 2026.
- Namecheap: 1,022 (17.8%)
- Hostinger: 1,003 (17.5%)
- Key-systems: 615 (10.7%)
- Godaddy: 503 (8.8%)
- Reg: 402 (7.0%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.4 avg length | 79.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (98.5%) | 2-5 years (1.4%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (18.3%) | Vercel (0.6%) | WordPress.com (0.5%) | Wix (0.4%) | Afternic (0.1%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: kraken2trfqodidvlh4aa337cpzfrhdlfldhve5nf7njhumwr7instad.online (56 chars)
- Shortest SLD: z76.online (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: jndap.online
- Listed for sale: mysocial.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 04, 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.