We discovered 337,474 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 305,153 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 480 gTLDs. This is 5.7% lower than yesterday’s May 13, 2026 total of 323,470.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.4 avg length | 70.4% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (94.1%) | 2-5 years (5.6%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (22.5%) | Vercel (0.7%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.4%) | Squarespace (1.3%) | Afternic (0.6%) | Sedo (0.3%) | Atom.com (0.1%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (160,981), .top (11,219), .org (10,960).
- .com: 160,981
- .top: 11,219
- .org: 10,960
- .online: 9,223
- .net: 8,966
- .info: 7,162
- .xyz: 6,090
- .site: 5,953
- .store: 5,697
- .lol: 5,606
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 160,981 domains
We discovered 160,981 .com domains in today’s report, a 0.6% increase from yesterday’s 159,956. Of these, 158,674 were registered on May 13, 2026, 1,391 on May 12, 2026.
- Godaddy: 29,754 (18.5%)
- Namecheap: 18,473 (11.5%)
- Squarespace: 8,942 (5.6%)
- Hostinger: 8,568 (5.3%)
- Cloudflare: 8,199 (5.1%)
- Namesrs: 6,084 (3.8%)
- Realtimeregister: 4,794 (3.0%)
- Spaceship: 4,750 (3.0%)
- Namebright: 4,651 (2.9%)
- Tucows: 4,606 (2.9%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.5 avg length | 74.8% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.1%) | 2-5 years (8.5%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (18.6%) | Vercel (0.7%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (2.2%) | Squarespace (2.2%) | Afternic (0.9%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: artadvisoryinlondonartconsultancymccaslinindependentartadvisory.com (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 69an.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: nhdensate.com
- Listed for sale: kuhox.com
.top, 11,219 domains
We discovered 11,219 .top domains in today’s report, a 23.1% decrease from yesterday’s 14,595. Of these, 11,061 were registered on May 13, 2026, 61 on May 12, 2026.
- Spaceship: 2,766 (24.7%)
- Namesilo: 2,762 (24.6%)
- Dynadot: 2,640 (23.5%)
- Alibaba cloud: 740 (6.6%)
- Namecheap: 476 (4.2%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 8.0 avg length | 36.9% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (98.8%) | 2-5 years (0.9%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (31.3%) | Vercel (0.1%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 36.9% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: slovo-patsana-krov-na-asfalte-tv.top (32 chars)
- Shortest SLD: s9f.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: thwbz.top
.org, 10,960 domains
We discovered 10,960 .org domains in today’s report, a 2.8% increase from yesterday’s 10,657. Of these, 10,868 were registered on May 13, 2026, 14 on May 12, 2026.
- Namecheap: 1,789 (16.3%)
- Godaddy: 1,678 (15.3%)
- Dynadot: 1,525 (13.9%)
- Ionos: 781 (7.1%)
- Cloudflare: 778 (7.1%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.3 avg length | 76.7% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (92.0%) | 2-5 years (7.4%) | >5 years (0.5%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (22.7%) | Vercel (0.5%) | WordPress.com (0.5%) | Wix (1.6%) | Afternic (0.4%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.1%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: edu-math-science-stem-research-study-learn-academy-scholar.org (58 chars)
- Shortest SLD: gp7.org (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: innocens.org
- Listed for sale: sukukloans.org
.online, 9,223 domains
We discovered 9,223 .online domains in today’s report, a 1.5% decrease from yesterday’s 9,361. Of these, 8,919 were registered on May 13, 2026, 6 on May 12, 2026.
- Namecheap: 1,862 (20.2%)
- Hostinger: 1,438 (15.6%)
- Godaddy: 998 (10.8%)
- Reg: 845 (9.2%)
- Key-systems: 464 (5.0%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.4 avg length | 73.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (98.4%) | 2-5 years (1.5%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (15.7%) | Vercel (0.6%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (0.6%) | Afternic (0.1%) | Sedo (0.1%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: christianmiraclehospitalfibroidgynaematernitysurgeryrecoveryhub.online (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: i-i.online (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: merlmenu.online
- Listed for sale: wallagents.online
.net, 8,966 domains
We discovered 8,966 .net domains in today’s report, a 14.2% increase from yesterday’s 7,854. Of these, 1 was registered on May 13, 2026, 8,914 on May 12, 2026.
- Godaddy: 1,519 (17.1%)
- Namecheap: 1,147 (12.9%)
- Dynadot: 683 (7.7%)
- Squarespace: 575 (6.5%)
- Cloudflare: 570 (6.4%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 10.9 avg length | 76.5% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (90.8%) | 2-5 years (8.7%) | >5 years (0.6%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (20.8%) | Vercel (0.3%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (3.6%) | Squarespace (2.8%) | Afternic (0.1%)
Anomaly signal: Only 1 domain registered on May 13, 2026 appears in today’s sample, compared with 8,914 from May 12, 2026. This indicates a delay in zone file updates from the registry, not an actual drop in registrations.
Examples
- Longest SLD: lmjnhhygedtawsdcfgvbhnyopmjuhygtrwwasedrfvg.net (43 chars)
- Shortest SLD: c4v.net (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: otpnova.net
- Listed for sale: ridethed.net
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 14, 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.