We discovered 330,332 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 307,573 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 307 gTLDs. This is 3.1% lower than yesterday’s May 19, 2026 total of 317,552.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.3 avg length | 73.0% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (94.1%) | 2-5 years (5.6%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (20.0%) | Vercel (0.5%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.4%) | Squarespace (1.6%) | Afternic (3.3%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (162,604), .lol (30,005), .net (17,998).
- .com: 162,604
- .lol: 30,005
- .net: 17,998
- .top: 17,749
- .xyz: 14,509
- .org: 11,933
- .info: 10,267
- .click: 3,768
- .digital: 3,722
- .pro: 3,241
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 162,604 domains
We discovered 162,604 .com domains in today’s report, a 7.2% increase from yesterday’s 151,746. Of these, 150,647 were registered on May 19, 2026, 958 on May 18, 2026.
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.4 avg length | 75.2% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.2%) | 2-5 years (8.5%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (18.9%) | Vercel (0.6%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (2.1%) | Squarespace (2.7%) | Afternic (0.7%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: yellowbirdsdonthavewingsbuttheyflytomakeyouexperiencea3dreality.com (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 8pz.com (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: airupdk.com
- Listed for sale: bitmaxxing.com
.lol, 30,005 domains
We discovered 30,005 .lol domains in today’s report, a 413.8% increase from yesterday’s 5,840. Of these, 21,650 were registered on May 19, 2026, 0 on May 18, 2026.
Usage Signals
- Structure: 7.6 avg length | 74.2% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (100.0%) | 2-5 years (0.0%) | >5 years (0.0%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (3.3%)
Burst signal: 413.8% day-over-day increase. With 3.3% on Cloudflare DNS, more of these domains appear directed toward end-user use than resale.
Short-term usage pattern: All domains are registered for exactly one year, with no resale-platform presence, indicating short-term usage intent. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: account-validation-service-q16.lol (30 chars)
- Shortest SLD: k6.lol (2 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: aify.lol
.net, 17,998 domains
We discovered 17,998 .net domains in today’s report, a 201.4% increase from yesterday’s 5,971. Of these, 8,128 were registered on May 19, 2026, 9,210 on May 18, 2026.
Usage Signals
- Structure: 10.7 avg length | 70.2% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.0%) | 2-5 years (8.6%) | >5 years (0.5%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (28.8%) | Vercel (0.5%) | WordPress.com (0.1%) | Wix (3.4%) | Squarespace (2.7%) | Afternic (0.1%)
Burst signal: 201.4% day-over-day increase. With 28.8% on Cloudflare DNS, more of these domains appear directed toward end-user use than resale.
Examples
- Longest SLD: bhgytrsdwerzaswqnbhgytrfdeswbvgfcnhbyutfryhgtfrtd.net (49 chars)
- Shortest SLD: l0p.net (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: noderadar.net
- Listed for sale: matbus.net
.top, 17,749 domains
We discovered 17,749 .top domains in today’s report, a 10.9% increase from yesterday’s 16,005. Of these, 14,335 were registered on May 19, 2026, 75 on May 18, 2026.
Usage Signals
- Structure: 8.0 avg length | 35.0% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.1%) | 2-5 years (0.6%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (16.1%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 35.0% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: 8bva-23unimbus918276cna6172badhe716eeacheckin.top (45 chars)
- Shortest SLD: x-5.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: javhdnet.top
.xyz, 14,509 domains
We discovered 14,509 .xyz domains in today’s report, a 32.2% decrease from yesterday’s 21,406. Of these, 13,747 were registered on May 19, 2026, 44 on May 18, 2026.
Usage Signals
- Structure: 10.8 avg length | 79.7% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (98.9%) | 2-5 years (0.7%) | >5 years (0.4%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (12.6%) | Vercel (0.7%) | Afternic (59.2%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: ajudaracresceraprendercomamorcarinhoeternuracomtodopreceito.xyz (59 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 8vr.xyz (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: aajackpot.xyz
- Listed for sale: eldozluck.xyz
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 20, 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.