We discovered 236,430 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 208,696 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 455 gTLDs. This is 21.6% lower than yesterday’s May 09, 2026 total of 266,247.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 10.8 avg length | 67.8% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (93.9%) | 2-5 years (5.8%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (21.7%) | Vercel (0.8%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.2%) | Squarespace (1.5%) | Afternic (0.9%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (114,069), .top (14,713), .net (8,102).
- .com: 114,069
- .top: 14,713
- .net: 8,102
- .xyz: 6,768
- .org: 6,654
- .online: 5,725
- .info: 5,190
- .app: 4,874
- .vip: 3,890
- .store: 3,758
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 114,069 domains
We discovered 114,069 .com domains in today’s report, a 19.9% decrease from yesterday’s 142,419. Of these, 112,119 were registered on May 09, 2026, 1,332 on May 08, 2026.
- Godaddy: 18,677 (16.4%)
- Namecheap: 11,469 (10.1%)
- Hostinger: 6,739 (5.9%)
- Cloudflare: 6,651 (5.8%)
- Julyname: 6,234 (5.5%)
- Squarespace: 5,690 (5.0%)
- Namebright: 4,692 (4.1%)
- Realtimeregister: 4,157 (3.6%)
- Namesrs: 3,881 (3.4%)
- Tucows: 3,526 (3.1%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.8 avg length | 73.7% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.2%) | 2-5 years (8.5%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (18.8%) | Vercel (0.7%) | WordPress.com (0.4%) | Wix (1.8%) | Squarespace (2.5%) | Afternic (1.4%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.3%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: 222521st-22252-wright-town-jabalpur-madhya-pradesh-482002-india.com (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: tgh.com (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: ntuig.com
- Listed for sale: amircup.com
.top, 14,713 domains
We discovered 14,713 .top domains in today’s report, a 12.7% decrease from yesterday’s 16,848. Of these, 14,456 were registered on May 09, 2026, 111 on May 08, 2026.
- godaddy.com: 6,064 (41.2%)
- Spaceship: 2,104 (14.3%)
- Namesilo: 1,739 (11.8%)
- Juming: 1,174 (8.0%)
- Dynadot: 1,138 (7.7%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 6.7 avg length | 25.0% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.1%) | 2-5 years (0.6%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (13.3%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 25.0% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: 7-bbbaniwebc9ddd41ef94cee7d0b4a02a42fdd040f.top (43 chars)
- Shortest SLD: ju0.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: yaivmp.top
.net, 8,102 domains
We discovered 8,102 .net domains in today’s report, a 8.4% decrease from yesterday’s 8,845. Of these, 3 were registered on May 09, 2026, 7,981 on May 08, 2026.
- Godaddy: 1,420 (17.8%)
- Namecheap: 1,077 (13.5%)
- Cloudflare: 547 (6.8%)
- Squarespace: 540 (6.8%)
- Namebright: 458 (5.7%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.3 avg length | 75.2% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (90.3%) | 2-5 years (9.1%) | >5 years (0.5%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (19.8%) | Vercel (0.2%) | WordPress.com (0.4%) | Wix (3.5%) | Squarespace (3.0%) | Afternic (0.1%)
Anomaly signal: Only 3 domains registered on May 09, 2026 appears in today’s sample, compared with 7,981 from May 08, 2026. This indicates a delay in zone file updates from the registry, not an actual drop in registrations.
Examples
- Longest SLD: university-of-st-augustine-for-health-science-noblementions.net (59 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 2t5.net (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: jgarden.net
- Listed for sale: fitjourney.net
.xyz, 6,768 domains
We discovered 6,768 .xyz domains in today’s report, a 5.3% decrease from yesterday’s 7,145. Of these, 6,656 were registered on May 09, 2026, 43 on May 08, 2026.
- Godaddy: 1,862 (27.5%)
- Namecheap: 1,288 (19.1%)
- Spaceship: 837 (12.4%)
- Dynadot: 642 (9.5%)
- Namesilo: 549 (8.1%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 10.2 avg length | 42.8% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (98.0%) | 2-5 years (1.3%) | >5 years (0.7%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (29.0%) | Vercel (1.4%) | Afternic (0.6%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 42.8% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.xyz (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: t.xyz (1 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: ricina.xyz
- Listed for sale: oxgn.xyz
.org, 6,654 domains
We discovered 6,654 .org domains in today’s report, a 33.3% decrease from yesterday’s 9,981. Of these, 6,603 were registered on May 09, 2026, 2 on May 08, 2026.
- Namecheap: 1,219 (18.3%)
- Godaddy: 894 (13.4%)
- Cloudflare: 573 (8.6%)
- Squarespace: 551 (8.3%)
- Ionos: 468 (7.0%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.1 avg length | 79.4% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (92.6%) | 2-5 years (7.1%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (18.8%) | Vercel (0.7%) | WordPress.com (1.1%) | Wix (1.8%) | Afternic (0.9%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: landscapetshirtdesignsandmorelovebeyondinspiredbymerdic.org (55 chars)
- Shortest SLD: pw6.org (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: debetx.org
- Listed for sale: tosos.org
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 10, 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.