We discovered 359,948 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 323,470 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 487 gTLDs. This is 1.4% lower than yesterday’s May 12, 2026 total of 327,966.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.2 avg length | 63.9% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (94.3%) | 2-5 years (5.5%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (21.4%) | Vercel (0.6%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.2%) | Squarespace (1.6%) | Afternic (0.5%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (159,956), .lol (33,148), .top (14,595).
- .com: 159,956
- .lol: 33,148
- .top: 14,595
- .org: 10,657
- .online: 9,361
- .net: 7,854
- .info: 7,126
- .xyz: 6,180
- .site: 5,865
- .pro: 5,443
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 159,956 domains
We discovered 159,956 .com domains in today’s report, a 5.2% increase from yesterday’s 152,058. Of these, 157,677 were registered on May 12, 2026, 1,403 on May 11, 2026.
- Godaddy: 26,341 (16.5%)
- Namecheap: 19,560 (12.2%)
- Squarespace: 9,203 (5.8%)
- Hostinger: 8,863 (5.5%)
- Cloudflare: 8,373 (5.2%)
- Namesrs: 5,280 (3.3%)
- Tucows: 5,078 (3.2%)
- Namebright: 4,542 (2.8%)
- Namesilo: 4,257 (2.7%)
- Spaceship: 4,231 (2.6%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.5 avg length | 75.8% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (90.6%) | 2-5 years (9.1%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (19.4%) | Vercel (0.7%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (2.0%) | Squarespace (2.9%) | Afternic (0.9%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.4%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: google-site-verificationxlbeusnusjsoylayku5quhd5ubvnejt–epb-h.com (62 chars)
- Shortest SLD: j6rx.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: pnbfyr.com
- Listed for sale: fipil.com
.lol, 33,148 domains
We discovered 33,148 .lol domains in today’s report, a 6072.8% increase from yesterday’s 537. Of these, 33,126 were registered on May 12, 2026, 0 on May 11, 2026.
- GMO Internet: 32,497 (98.0%)
- Namecheap: 172 (0.5%)
- Spaceship: 94 (0.3%)
- Porkbun: 88 (0.3%)
- Dynadot: 84 (0.3%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 7.9 avg length | 8.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (100.0%) | 2-5 years (0.0%) | >5 years (0.0%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (0.6%)
Burst signal: 6072.8% day-over-day increase. Neither sale-listing nor active hosting signals are dominant in today’s sample.
Registrar concentration signal: GMO Internet accounts for 98.0% of today’s registrations, with no domains observed on Afternic, Sedo, or Atom.com. Worth continued monitoring.
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 8.6% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Short-term usage pattern: All domains are registered for exactly one year, with no resale-platform presence, indicating short-term usage intent. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: penguinpunchtrollhantapnutfwog67.lol (32 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 4e.lol (2 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: bentene.lol
.top, 14,595 domains
We discovered 14,595 .top domains in today’s report, a 44.1% decrease from yesterday’s 26,105. Of these, 13,812 were registered on May 12, 2026, 117 on May 11, 2026.
- Godaddy: 5,155 (35.3%)
- Spaceship: 2,206 (15.1%)
- Namesilo: 2,133 (14.6%)
- Dynadot: 2,065 (14.1%)
- Alibaba cloud: 924 (6.3%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 7.2 avg length | 22.5% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.1%) | 2-5 years (0.6%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (14.3%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 22.5% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: dfjkhg43689ydkjhfbg9821posddpo0r4569056ionjgweuiqwbvrt56.top (56 chars)
- Shortest SLD: jxh.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: sdwxm.top
- Listed for sale: reframe.top
.org, 10,657 domains
We discovered 10,657 .org domains in today’s report, a 5.0% increase from yesterday’s 10,150. Of these, 10,572 were registered on May 12, 2026, 5 on May 11, 2026.
- Namecheap: 1,834 (17.2%)
- Godaddy: 1,530 (14.4%)
- Dynadot: 1,182 (11.1%)
- Cloudflare: 820 (7.7%)
- Ionos: 787 (7.4%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.7 avg length | 78.9% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (92.4%) | 2-5 years (7.2%) | >5 years (0.4%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (22.2%) | Vercel (0.6%) | WordPress.com (0.7%) | Wix (1.9%) | Afternic (0.5%) | Sedo (0.1%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: sevenoaksatgrandislandbakersfieldneighborhood.org (45 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 99o.org (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: compcalcs.org
- Listed for sale: careerjob.org
.online, 9,361 domains
We discovered 9,361 .online domains in today’s report, a 15.0% increase from yesterday’s 8,142. Of these, 9,004 were registered on May 12, 2026, 6 on May 11, 2026.
- Namecheap: 1,726 (18.4%)
- Hostinger: 1,278 (13.7%)
- Key-systems: 885 (9.5%)
- Godaddy: 860 (9.2%)
- Reg: 778 (8.3%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.0 avg length | 75.9% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (98.4%) | 2-5 years (1.5%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (24.8%) | Vercel (0.5%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (0.7%) | Sedo (0.1%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: caspersgreatestdumpsterrentalandjunkremoval.online (43 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 1op.online (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: locktips.online
- Listed for sale: taxgaming.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 13, 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.