We discovered 328,172 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 301,805 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 466 gTLDs. This is 72.5% higher than yesterday’s May 04, 2026 total of 174,957.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 10.9 avg length | 74.2% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (94.1%) | 2-5 years (5.6%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (22.0%) | Vercel (1.1%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.2%) | Squarespace (1.4%) | Afternic (7.3%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (137,492), .xyz (26,106), .app (24,504).
- .com: 137,492
- .xyz: 26,106
- .app: 24,504
- .top: 16,595
- .org: 8,986
- .online: 8,231
- .dev: 7,730
- .cfd: 7,011
- .info: 6,359
- .net: 5,234
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 137,492 domains
We discovered 137,492 .com domains in today’s report, a 39.0% increase from yesterday’s 98,898. Of these, 135,934 were registered on May 04, 2026, 1,003 on May 03, 2026.
- Godaddy: 23,195 (16.9%)
- Namecheap: 16,232 (11.8%)
- Hostinger: 8,461 (6.2%)
- Squarespace: 8,201 (6.0%)
- Cloudflare: 7,546 (5.5%)
- Tucows: 4,431 (3.2%)
- Namebright: 4,260 (3.1%)
- Namesrs: 4,147 (3.0%)
- Spaceship: 3,388 (2.5%)
- Wix: 3,074 (2.2%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.6 avg length | 77.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (90.4%) | 2-5 years (9.3%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (18.7%) | Vercel (0.7%) | WordPress.com (0.4%) | Wix (2.3%) | Squarespace (2.9%) | Afternic (1.0%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.3%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: aspiringcybersecurityprofessionalhillsboroughcommunityco.com (56 chars)
- Shortest SLD: t7l.com (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: usmlebrain.com
- Listed for sale: smokyfy.com
.xyz, 26,106 domains
We discovered 26,106 .xyz domains in today’s report, a 451.8% increase from yesterday’s 4,731. Of these, 26,069 were registered on May 04, 2026, 9 on May 03, 2026.
- Dynadot: 21,177 (81.1%)
- Namecheap: 1,499 (5.7%)
- Spaceship: 1,002 (3.8%)
- Godaddy: 463 (1.8%)
- Gname: 294 (1.1%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 7.6 avg length | 91.3% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.5%) | 2-5 years (0.4%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (9.0%) | Vercel (0.4%) | Afternic (77.8%)
Burst signal: 451.8% day-over-day increase. With 77.8% listed for sale, more of these domains appear directed toward resale than end-user use.
TLD opportunity signal: Pure-alphabet share at 91.3% combined with 77.8% on resale platforms suggests this TLD may have promotional or market stimulus driving investment activity. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: a060d903de6ae7776913d969d552a437ddc445e4a4860553c2195f669e62d9.xyz (62 chars)
- Shortest SLD: t9k.xyz (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: bindev.xyz
- Listed for sale: favex.xyz
.app, 24,504 domains
We discovered 24,504 .app domains in today’s report. Of these, 2 were registered on May 04, 2026, 1,901 on May 03, 2026.
- Name: 5,490 (22.4%)
- Cloudflare: 3,888 (15.9%)
- Godaddy: 3,403 (13.9%)
- Namecheap: 3,222 (13.2%)
- Dynadot: 1,989 (8.1%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 8.7 avg length | 85.0% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (94.8%) | 2-5 years (5.0%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (28.3%) | Vercel (4.3%) | Squarespace (0.6%) | Afternic (0.7%) | Atom.com (0.1%)
Anomaly signal: Only 2 domains registered on May 04, 2026 appears in today’s sample, compared with 1,901 from May 03, 2026. This indicates a delay in zone file updates from the registry, not an actual drop in registrations.
Examples
- Longest SLD: xn--artenschutzrechtliche-ueberprfung-kqd.app (41 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 9e.app (2 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: lanio.app
- Listed for sale: qld.app
.top, 16,595 domains
We discovered 16,595 .top domains in today’s report, a 82.9% increase from yesterday’s 9,073. Of these, 16,528 were registered on May 04, 2026, 34 on May 03, 2026.
- Godaddy: 9,412 (56.7%)
- Spaceship: 2,062 (12.4%)
- Namesilo: 1,682 (10.1%)
- Dynadot: 818 (4.9%)
- Juming: 349 (2.1%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 6.3 avg length | 17.7% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.6%) | 2-5 years (0.3%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (11.5%)
Burst signal: 82.9% day-over-day increase. With 11.5% on Cloudflare DNS, more of these domains appear directed toward end-user use than resale.
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 17.7% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: xn--ehq95ida221nw0mnl2biyan5ds71a.top (33 chars)
- Shortest SLD: c83.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: qwtru.top
.org, 8,986 domains
We discovered 8,986 .org domains in today’s report, a 44.7% increase from yesterday’s 6,211. Of these, 8,920 were registered on May 04, 2026, 5 on May 03, 2026.
- Namecheap: 1,549 (17.2%)
- Godaddy: 1,309 (14.6%)
- Squarespace: 709 (7.9%)
- Cloudflare: 700 (7.8%)
- Ionos: 697 (7.8%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.5 avg length | 82.3% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.7%) | 2-5 years (7.8%) | >5 years (0.5%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (20.5%) | Vercel (0.6%) | WordPress.com (0.8%) | Wix (1.9%) | Afternic (0.3%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: farm-harvest-data-research-agritech-and-analytics-africa.org (56 chars)
- Shortest SLD: oqv.org (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: dkterramor.org
- Listed for sale: westudy.org
Continue exploring the lifecycle
- Browse historical Newly Registered Domains reports across all gTLDs: NRDS Intelligence Reports.
- Daily Active Domain Intelligence Reports with active domain counts across TLDs. See the latest TLD Domain Report.
- 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.