We discovered 152,821 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 266,247 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 469 gTLDs. This is 26.8% lower than yesterday’s May 08, 2026 total of 363,575.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.3 avg length | 70.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (93.8%) | 2-5 years (5.9%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (22.3%) | Vercel (0.6%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.3%) | Squarespace (1.6%) | Afternic (0.7%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.5%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (142,419), .top (16,848), .org (9,981).
- .com: 142,419
- .top: 16,848
- .org: 9,981
- .net: 8,845
- .info: 7,846
- .online: 7,530
- .xyz: 7,145
- .vip: 6,258
- .site: 5,041
- .store: 4,489
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 142,419 domains
We discovered 142,419 .com domains in today’s report, a 12.4% decrease from yesterday’s 162,602. Of these, 139,809 were registered on May 08, 2026, 1,879 on May 07, 2026.
- Godaddy: 25,613 (18.0%)
- Namecheap: 16,643 (11.7%)
- Hostinger: 7,981 (5.6%)
- Squarespace: 7,754 (5.4%)
- Cloudflare: 7,658 (5.4%)
- Realtimeregister: 5,371 (3.8%)
- Namebright: 4,920 (3.5%)
- Namesrs: 4,162 (2.9%)
- Tucows: 4,118 (2.9%)
- Spaceship: 3,805 (2.7%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.5 avg length | 76.4% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (90.8%) | 2-5 years (8.8%) | >5 years (0.4%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (19.3%) | Vercel (0.7%) | WordPress.com (0.4%) | Wix (1.9%) | Squarespace (2.6%) | Afternic (1.1%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.8%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: kraken6gf6o4rxewycqwjgfchzgxyfeoj5xafqbfm4vgvyaig2vmxvyd–onion.com (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 02z6.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: bybehl.com
- Listed for sale: aisociale.com
.top, 16,848 domains
We discovered 16,848 .top domains in today’s report, a 26.3% increase from yesterday’s 13,341. Of these, 16,717 were registered on May 08, 2026, 62 on May 07, 2026.
- godaddy.com: 3,940 (23.4%)
- Spaceship: 2,345 (13.9%)
- Eranet: 2,343 (13.9%)
- Namesilo: 2,233 (13.3%)
- Dynadot: 1,852 (11.0%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 7.3 avg length | 29.2% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.3%) | 2-5 years (0.5%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (15.7%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 29.2% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: indeedhutchshouldkojabyoubudshamekksjobsjanjk.top (45 chars)
- Shortest SLD: ax1.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: hygrvi.top
.org, 9,981 domains
We discovered 9,981 .org domains in today’s report, a 12.0% decrease from yesterday’s 11,343. Of these, 9,919 were registered on May 08, 2026, 0 on May 07, 2026.
- Namecheap: 1,852 (18.6%)
- Godaddy: 1,427 (14.3%)
- Dynadot: 831 (8.3%)
- Cloudflare: 733 (7.3%)
- Ionos: 683 (6.8%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 13.3 avg length | 78.8% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (92.1%) | 2-5 years (7.5%) | >5 years (0.5%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (22.4%) | Vercel (0.5%) | WordPress.com (0.6%) | Wix (1.8%) | Afternic (0.3%) | Sedo (0.1%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: university-of-st-augustine-for-health-science-hq-noblementions.org (62 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 0dp.org (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: learring.org
- Listed for sale: hanashi.org
.net, 8,845 domains
We discovered 8,845 .net domains in today’s report, a 4.2% decrease from yesterday’s 9,232. Of these, 2 were registered on May 08, 2026, 8,805 on May 07, 2026.
- Godaddy: 1,582 (17.9%)
- Namecheap: 1,068 (12.1%)
- Dynadot: 1,035 (11.7%)
- Squarespace: 570 (6.5%)
- Cloudflare: 556 (6.3%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.0 avg length | 71.0% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (90.4%) | 2-5 years (9.1%) | >5 years (0.4%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (18.9%) | Vercel (0.3%) | WordPress.com (0.1%) | Wix (3.4%) | Squarespace (3.0%) | Afternic (0.2%) | Sedo (0.1%)
Anomaly signal: Only 2 domains registered on May 08, 2026 appears in today’s sample, compared with 8,805 from May 07, 2026. This indicates a delay in zone file updates from the registry, not an actual drop in registrations.
Examples
- Longest SLD: xn--12cfian1dvca3a0cdvaf1a7a1a1gcwdifh8c5frkrb6jsa.net (50 chars)
- Shortest SLD: bp4.net (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: cantaso.net
- Listed for sale: sakkagroup.net
.info, 7,846 domains
We discovered 7,846 .info domains in today’s report, a 34.4% decrease from yesterday’s 11,955. Of these, 7,838 were registered on May 08, 2026, 5 on May 07, 2026.
- Porkbun: 2,303 (29.4%)
- Dynadot: 1,380 (17.6%)
- Namecheap: 611 (7.8%)
- Godaddy: 582 (7.4%)
- Spaceship: 513 (6.5%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 13.3 avg length | 91.2% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (98.2%) | 2-5 years (1.7%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (22.0%) | Vercel (0.1%) | Wix (0.5%) | Afternic (0.1%) | Sedo (0.2%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: kadvapatelsamaj-umaatithigruhdwarka.info (35 chars)
- Shortest SLD: dlw.info (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: ajarhorn.info
- Listed for sale: marlon.info
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 09, 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.