We discovered 298,976 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 269,024 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 473 gTLDs. This is 1.3% lower than yesterday’s May 15, 2026 total of 272,461.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.3 avg length | 70.3% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (93.7%) | 2-5 years (6.0%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (23.8%) | Vercel (0.8%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.3%) | Squarespace (1.6%) | Afternic (0.6%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (141,499), .top (11,428), .org (9,740).
- .com: 141,499
- .top: 11,428
- .org: 9,740
- .net: 9,123
- .online: 7,612
- .app: 7,597
- .info: 7,258
- .site: 6,022
- .store: 5,400
- .xyz: 5,204
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 141,499 domains
We discovered 141,499 .com domains in today’s report, a 5.6% decrease from yesterday’s 149,829. Of these, 139,783 were registered on May 15, 2026, 1,028 on May 14, 2026.
- Godaddy: 25,116 (17.8%)
- Namecheap: 15,918 (11.3%)
- Cloudflare: 8,088 (5.7%)
- Hostinger: 7,996 (5.7%)
- Squarespace: 7,780 (5.5%)
- Namebright: 4,650 (3.3%)
- Namesrs: 4,180 (3.0%)
- Tucows: 4,154 (2.9%)
- Julyname: 3,695 (2.6%)
- Dynadot: 3,463 (2.4%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.3 avg length | 75.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (90.7%) | 2-5 years (8.9%) | >5 years (0.4%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (18.7%) | Vercel (0.8%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (2.0%) | Squarespace (2.7%) | Afternic (0.9%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.4%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: brooklynnybedbugsroachantstermitemiceratpestcontrolextermina.com (60 chars)
- Shortest SLD: kux4.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: vmrggz.com
- Listed for sale: puritymuse.com
.top, 11,428 domains
We discovered 11,428 .top domains in today’s report, a 16.7% decrease from yesterday’s 13,714. Of these, 11,297 were registered on May 15, 2026, 76 on May 14, 2026.
- Dynadot: 2,545 (22.3%)
- Spaceship: 2,217 (19.4%)
- Godaddy: 2,028 (17.7%)
- Namesilo: 1,810 (15.8%)
- Alibaba cloud: 741 (6.5%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 8.2 avg length | 30.7% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.0%) | 2-5 years (0.8%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (23.1%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 30.7% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: mars24pazjige72veied4awxfb6gtkjauij7qkofveula8gc6fljy7qd.top (56 chars)
- Shortest SLD: do.top (2 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: fasangola.top
.org, 9,740 domains
We discovered 9,740 .org domains in today’s report, a 4.0% decrease from yesterday’s 10,151. Of these, 9,684 were registered on May 15, 2026, 3 on May 14, 2026.
- Namecheap: 1,601 (16.4%)
- Dynadot: 1,494 (15.3%)
- Godaddy: 1,213 (12.5%)
- Cloudflare: 821 (8.4%)
- Squarespace: 681 (7.0%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.9 avg length | 75.3% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (92.1%) | 2-5 years (7.4%) | >5 years (0.5%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (22.6%) | Vercel (0.6%) | WordPress.com (0.6%) | Wix (2.0%) | Afternic (0.3%) | Sedo (0.1%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: online-drocumenitatlonsarvicingcartlcation960595402.org (51 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 4ph.org (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: ojhyw.org
- Listed for sale: yotube.org
.net, 9,123 domains
We discovered 9,123 .net domains in today’s report, a 5.4% decrease from yesterday’s 9,642. Of these, 4 were registered on May 15, 2026, 9,086 on May 14, 2026.
- Godaddy: 1,531 (17.0%)
- Dynadot: 1,281 (14.2%)
- Namecheap: 1,045 (11.6%)
- Cloudflare: 594 (6.6%)
- Squarespace: 549 (6.1%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 10.6 avg length | 70.4% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (90.1%) | 2-5 years (9.3%) | >5 years (0.6%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (29.3%) | Vercel (0.3%) | WordPress.com (0.1%) | Wix (3.4%) | Squarespace (2.8%) | Afternic (0.2%)
Anomaly signal: Only 4 domains registered on May 15, 2026 appears in today’s sample, compared with 9,086 from May 14, 2026. This indicates a delay in zone file updates from the registry, not an actual drop in registrations.
Examples
- Longest SLD: xn--fiqa95c61ay4d4al964at6m8trire4pv9za02lfn8ab13djf8bf0j10g.net (60 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 2s8.net (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: thevyra.net
- Listed for sale: wallvert.net
.online, 7,612 domains
We discovered 7,612 .online domains in today’s report, a 8.2% decrease from yesterday’s 8,289. Of these, 7,400 were registered on May 15, 2026, 5 on May 14, 2026.
- Namecheap: 1,260 (16.6%)
- Hostinger: 1,233 (16.2%)
- Godaddy: 751 (9.9%)
- Reg: 599 (7.9%)
- Key-systems: 379 (5.0%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.7 avg length | 77.3% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (98.1%) | 2-5 years (1.8%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (18.3%) | Vercel (0.5%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (0.5%) | Squarespace (0.1%) | Afternic (0.1%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: xn——–cdhbccicaccbc6bkkfhl8dh5e9f8msade4bj7ck6ddik.online (54 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 20c.online (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: fancyurl.online
- Listed for sale: geolotto.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 16, 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.