We discovered 348,135 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 317,552 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 496 gTLDs. This is 65.5% higher than yesterday’s May 18, 2026 total of 191,904.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.0 avg length | 69.7% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (94.5%) | 2-5 years (5.2%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (20.1%) | Vercel (0.6%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.2%) | Squarespace (1.3%) | Afternic (5.5%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (151,746), .vip (23,257), .xyz (21,406).
- .com: 151,746
- .vip: 23,257
- .xyz: 21,406
- .top: 16,005
- .org: 10,870
- .online: 8,718
- .info: 6,893
- .net: 5,971
- .lol: 5,840
- .site: 4,717
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 151,746 domains
We discovered 151,746 .com domains in today’s report, a 51.7% increase from yesterday’s 100,024. Of these, 140,472 were registered on May 18, 2026, 870 on May 17, 2026.
- Godaddy: 24,199 (15.9%)
- Namecheap: 17,194 (11.3%)
- Squarespace: 9,016 (5.9%)
- Hostinger: 8,743 (5.8%)
- Cloudflare: 8,669 (5.7%)
- Tucows: 4,712 (3.1%)
- Namebright: 4,584 (3.0%)
- Namesilo: 4,528 (3.0%)
- Dynadot: 4,204 (2.8%)
- Publicdomainregistry: 3,942 (2.6%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.6 avg length | 76.5% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (90.5%) | 2-5 years (9.2%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (19.8%) | Vercel (0.7%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (2.2%) | Squarespace (2.5%) | Afternic (1.0%) | Atom.com (0.4%)
Burst signal: 51.7% day-over-day increase. With 19.8% on Cloudflare DNS, more of these domains appear directed toward end-user use than resale.
Examples
- Longest SLD: mobilityinvestfundodeinvestimentomultimercadocreditoprivado.com (59 chars)
- Shortest SLD: h-zz.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: factlin.com
- Listed for sale: waxislife.com
.vip, 23,257 domains
We discovered 23,257 .vip domains in today’s report, a 553.7% increase from yesterday’s 3,558. Of these, 23,164 were registered on May 18, 2026, 2 on May 17, 2026.
- Godaddy: 20,421 (87.8%)
- Dynadot: 1,621 (7.0%)
- Gname: 329 (1.4%)
- Eranet: 281 (1.2%)
- Namecheap: 119 (0.5%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 6.3 avg length | 16.1% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.9%) | 2-5 years (0.1%) | >5 years (0.0%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (2.2%) | Sedo (0.1%)
Burst signal: 553.7% day-over-day increase. With 2.2% on Cloudflare DNS, more of these domains appear directed toward end-user use than resale.
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 16.1% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: makingmoneyinthephilippinestamarrawph.vip (37 chars)
- Shortest SLD: b580.vip (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: newdoge.vip
- Listed for sale: arivacoin.vip
.xyz, 21,406 domains
We discovered 21,406 .xyz domains in today’s report, a 327.9% increase from yesterday’s 5,002. Of these, 21,304 were registered on May 18, 2026, 18 on May 17, 2026.
- GMO Internet: 15,707 (73.4%)
- Namecheap: 1,170 (5.5%)
- Dynadot: 855 (4.0%)
- Namesilo: 563 (2.6%)
- Godaddy: 543 (2.5%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 10.8 avg length | 83.3% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.5%) | 2-5 years (0.3%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (9.3%) | Vercel (0.4%) | Afternic (73.5%)
Burst signal: 327.9% day-over-day increase. With 73.5% listed for sale, more of these domains appear directed toward resale than end-user use.
TLD opportunity signal: Pure-alphabet share at 83.3% combined with 73.5% on resale platforms suggests this TLD may have promotional or market stimulus driving investment activity. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: xn--55q21dndz1ga241jk1hing5fx1kiwat63o2oyarc1d.xyz (46 chars)
- Shortest SLD: f3u.xyz (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: spacetrue.xyz
- Listed for sale: aireducate.xyz
.top, 16,005 domains
We discovered 16,005 .top domains in today’s report, a 15.5% decrease from yesterday’s 18,937. Of these, 15,613 were registered on May 18, 2026, 71 on May 17, 2026.
- Spaceship: 4,266 (26.7%)
- Dynadot: 2,419 (15.1%)
- Alibaba cloud: 1,833 (11.5%)
- Namesilo: 1,509 (9.4%)
- Godaddy: 1,350 (8.4%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 7.8 avg length | 36.4% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.2%) | 2-5 years (0.6%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (15.3%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 36.4% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: 543chkverfnimbbbbaniwebc9ddd41ef94cee7d0b4a02a42fdd040fsessioni.top (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 0dp.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: wxkfwb.top
- Listed for sale: arow.top
.org, 10,870 domains
We discovered 10,870 .org domains in today’s report, a 60.4% increase from yesterday’s 6,776. Of these, 10,800 were registered on May 18, 2026, 4 on May 17, 2026.
- Namecheap: 1,834 (16.9%)
- Godaddy: 1,401 (12.9%)
- Dynadot: 1,339 (12.3%)
- Cloudflare: 805 (7.4%)
- Ionos: 700 (6.4%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.4 avg length | 75.5% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (93.0%) | 2-5 years (6.5%) | >5 years (0.5%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (21.8%) | Vercel (0.4%) | WordPress.com (0.6%) | Wix (1.6%) | Squarespace (0.1%) | Afternic (0.4%)
Burst signal: 60.4% day-over-day increase. With 21.8% on Cloudflare DNS, more of these domains appear directed toward end-user use than resale.
Examples
- Longest SLD: asociacionmexicanadecanceryenfermedadescronicodegenerativas.org (59 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 6u7.org (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: techtype.org
- Listed for sale: dutiful.org
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 19, 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.