We discovered 305,362 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 272,461 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 468 gTLDs. This is 10.7% lower than yesterday’s May 14, 2026 total of 305,153.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.3 avg length | 71.1% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (93.6%) | 2-5 years (6.1%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (22.7%) | Vercel (0.6%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.4%) | Squarespace (1.7%) | Afternic (0.8%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.3%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (149,829), .top (13,714), .org (10,151).
- .com: 149,829
- .top: 13,714
- .org: 10,151
- .net: 9,642
- .online: 8,289
- .xyz: 6,555
- .info: 6,507
- .lol: 5,589
- .store: 5,242
- .site: 5,136
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 149,829 domains
We discovered 149,829 .com domains in today’s report, a 6.9% decrease from yesterday’s 160,981. Of these, 148,019 were registered on May 14, 2026, 1,062 on May 13, 2026.
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.4 avg length | 75.0% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (90.6%) | 2-5 years (9.0%) | >5 years (0.4%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (18.8%) | Vercel (0.7%) | WordPress.com (0.4%) | Wix (2.2%) | Squarespace (2.8%) | Afternic (1.1%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.6%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: thraxullivon-quazillimorph-moli-vunderglatix-zanthromullex-gryp.com (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 7a5b.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: tablehonor.com
- Listed for sale: cyberpugs.com
.top, 13,714 domains
We discovered 13,714 .top domains in today’s report, a 22.2% increase from yesterday’s 11,219. Of these, 13,578 were registered on May 14, 2026, 66 on May 13, 2026.
Usage Signals
- Structure: 7.4 avg length | 28.3% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.1%) | 2-5 years (0.6%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (19.8%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 28.3% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: uzqkmj9kj9jazafz36z8z0z8jjhaqz91am9qzdazfadfzz.top (46 chars)
- Shortest SLD: a6.top (2 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: csescoo.top
.org, 10,151 domains
We discovered 10,151 .org domains in today’s report, a 7.4% decrease from yesterday’s 10,960. Of these, 10,069 were registered on May 14, 2026, 6 on May 13, 2026.
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.3 avg length | 78.5% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.7%) | 2-5 years (7.9%) | >5 years (0.5%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (25.5%) | Vercel (0.5%) | WordPress.com (0.7%) | Wix (2.0%) | Afternic (0.2%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.1%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: baptisthealthherbertwertheimcancerinstitute.org (43 chars)
- Shortest SLD: a0z.org (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: keeltrace.org
- Listed for sale: eagents.org
.net, 9,642 domains
We discovered 9,642 .net domains in today’s report, a 7.5% increase from yesterday’s 8,966. Of these, 3 were registered on May 14, 2026, 9,537 on May 13, 2026.
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.2 avg length | 79.9% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (90.4%) | 2-5 years (9.0%) | >5 years (0.6%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (20.9%) | Vercel (0.2%) | WordPress.com (0.1%) | Wix (3.3%) | Squarespace (2.4%) | Afternic (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.1%)
Anomaly signal: Only 3 domains registered on May 14, 2026 appears in today’s sample, compared with 9,537 from May 13, 2026. This indicates a delay in zone file updates from the registry, not an actual drop in registrations.
Examples
- Longest SLD: deytuhygtfrdewsaqvcfdsaewtyhgbvfrewouyhmnjhbgytrfdsa.net (52 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 0i6.net (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: shelfhost.net
- Listed for sale: profitzone.net
.online, 8,289 domains
We discovered 8,289 .online domains in today’s report, a 10.1% decrease from yesterday’s 9,223. Of these, 8,024 were registered on May 14, 2026, 11 on May 13, 2026.
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.4 avg length | 73.0% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (98.2%) | 2-5 years (1.7%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (16.4%) | Vercel (0.4%) | WordPress.com (0.4%) | Wix (0.6%) | Afternic (0.1%) | Sedo (0.1%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: actadenacimientogobmxactagobmxactanacimientoenlineagobmx.online (56 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 1v1.online (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: dailyloot.online
- Listed for sale: whatsnext.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 15, 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.