We discovered 220,816 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 191,904 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 459 gTLDs. This is 13.0% lower than yesterday’s May 17, 2026 total of 220,636.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 10.9 avg length | 69.3% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (94.0%) | 2-5 years (5.7%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (20.7%) | Vercel (0.9%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.3%) | Squarespace (1.7%) | Afternic (0.7%) | Sedo (0.4%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (100,024), .top (18,937), .org (6,776).
- .com: 100,024
- .top: 18,937
- .org: 6,776
- .net: 6,313
- .online: 6,141
- .xyz: 5,002
- .vip: 3,558
- .site: 3,165
- .app: 3,080
- .store: 3,065
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 100,024 domains
We discovered 100,024 .com domains in today’s report, a 13.8% decrease from yesterday’s 116,012. Of these, 90,783 were registered on May 17, 2026, 1,044 on May 16, 2026.
- Godaddy: 16,486 (16.5%)
- Namecheap: 10,913 (10.9%)
- Cloudflare: 6,770 (6.8%)
- Hostinger: 6,451 (6.5%)
- Squarespace: 5,831 (5.8%)
- Namebright: 4,382 (4.4%)
- Tucows: 3,127 (3.1%)
- Namesrs: 2,513 (2.5%)
- Spaceship: 2,409 (2.4%)
- Gname: 2,324 (2.3%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.2 avg length | 78.2% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (90.7%) | 2-5 years (9.0%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (17.0%) | Vercel (0.9%) | WordPress.com (0.4%) | Wix (2.1%) | Squarespace (2.9%) | Afternic (1.2%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.3%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: google-site-verificationkbb3wstkerxj2kgtqj5gr1vwctqfout5fof.com (59 chars)
- Shortest SLD: g1ll.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: capqu.com
- Listed for sale: henzia.com
.top, 18,937 domains
We discovered 18,937 .top domains in today’s report, a 39.9% decrease from yesterday’s 31,494. Of these, 18,785 were registered on May 17, 2026, 48 on May 16, 2026.
- Spaceship: 7,158 (37.8%)
- Dynadot: 2,691 (14.2%)
- Godaddy: 2,294 (12.1%)
- namemart pte. ltd.: 2,201 (11.6%)
- Namesilo: 1,119 (5.9%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 7.2 avg length | 21.2% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.5%) | 2-5 years (0.4%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (25.3%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 21.2% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: dfvqww6213jh98gfnfglh834rjhbgblkohu35rjtbwru7ysdjfhb73frg34t579.top (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: k49.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: xeyuis.top
- Listed for sale: ondafran.top
.org, 6,776 domains
We discovered 6,776 .org domains in today’s report, a 3.5% decrease from yesterday’s 7,025. Of these, 6,727 were registered on May 17, 2026, 3 on May 16, 2026.
- Namecheap: 1,144 (16.9%)
- Godaddy: 809 (11.9%)
- Dynadot: 752 (11.1%)
- Cloudflare: 635 (9.4%)
- Ionos: 521 (7.7%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.6 avg length | 76.7% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (93.4%) | 2-5 years (6.2%) | >5 years (0.4%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (22.1%) | Vercel (0.7%) | WordPress.com (0.9%) | Wix (1.8%) | Afternic (0.4%) | Sedo (0.1%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: creating-an-engaging-and-motivating-classroom.org (45 chars)
- Shortest SLD: l0n.org (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: abuleflow.org
- Listed for sale: affie.org
.net, 6,313 domains
We discovered 6,313 .net domains in today’s report, a 17.2% decrease from yesterday’s 7,628. Of these, 339 were registered on May 17, 2026, 5,947 on May 16, 2026.
- Godaddy: 988 (15.9%)
- Namecheap: 745 (12.0%)
- Cloudflare: 438 (7.0%)
- Namebright: 437 (7.0%)
- Squarespace: 403 (6.5%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 10.4 avg length | 78.8% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.7%) | 2-5 years (7.9%) | >5 years (0.4%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (20.8%) | Vercel (0.3%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (2.7%) | Squarespace (2.9%) | Afternic (0.4%)
Anomaly signal: Only 339 domains registered on May 17, 2026 appears in today’s sample, compared with 5,947 from May 16, 2026. This indicates a delay in zone file updates from the registry, not an actual drop in registrations.
Examples
- Longest SLD: taswedxcfvtgyhbnjuhygtfrdeswaqzsdfvcbhuyomnjh.net (45 chars)
- Shortest SLD: l9g.net (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: nestnodes.net
- Listed for sale: hubflow.net
.online, 6,141 domains
We discovered 6,141 .online domains in today’s report, a 2.1% decrease from yesterday’s 6,274. Of these, 5,921 were registered on May 17, 2026, 5 on May 16, 2026.
- Namecheap: 1,346 (21.9%)
- Hostinger: 1,028 (16.7%)
- Godaddy: 477 (7.8%)
- Reg: 476 (7.8%)
- Key-systems: 364 (5.9%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.4 avg length | 79.7% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (98.3%) | 2-5 years (1.6%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (17.4%) | Vercel (0.7%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (0.6%) | Squarespace (0.1%) | Afternic (0.1%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: sistemaoficialdeguiadigitalparaemprendedores.online (44 chars)
- Shortest SLD: vb3.online (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: altarways.online
- Listed for sale: notif.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 18, 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.