We discovered 338,964 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 326,167 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 494 gTLDs. This is 6.0% higher than yesterday’s May 20, 2026 total of 307,573.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.3 avg length | 69.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (94.6%) | 2-5 years (5.2%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (23.5%) | Vercel (0.8%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.1%) | Squarespace (1.4%) | Afternic (0.6%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (159,997), .online (16,494), .top (11,958).
- .com: 159,997
- .online: 16,494
- .top: 11,958
- .org: 10,576
- .vip: 10,450
- .site: 9,502
- .lol: 8,797
- .store: 8,716
- .info: 8,608
- .app: 6,360
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 159,997 domains
We discovered 159,997 .com domains in today’s report, a 1.6% decrease from yesterday’s 162,604. Of these, 146,640 were registered on May 20, 2026, 1,378 on May 19, 2026.
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.5 avg length | 76.1% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.0%) | 2-5 years (8.7%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (18.5%) | Vercel (0.6%) | WordPress.com (0.4%) | Wix (2.0%) | Squarespace (2.6%) | Afternic (1.1%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: kpmgcdstestitreallynotaviruslinkthisisforanengagementthankyou.com (61 chars)
- Shortest SLD: pk2b.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: perchinfo.com
- Listed for sale: mosqeva.com
.online, 16,494 domains
We discovered 16,494 .online domains in today’s report. Of these, 8,131 were registered on May 20, 2026, 8,048 on May 19, 2026.
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.6 avg length | 78.8% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (98.1%) | 2-5 years (1.8%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (16.2%) | Vercel (0.7%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (0.7%) | Squarespace (0.1%) | Afternic (0.1%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: google-site-verification4nqx2hevp5xhqmpqketnoq2yeecbul8apit.online (59 chars)
- Shortest SLD: ni6.online (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: kilotv.online
- Listed for sale: fluidity.online
.top, 11,958 domains
We discovered 11,958 .top domains in today’s report, a 32.6% decrease from yesterday’s 17,749. Of these, 11,851 were registered on May 20, 2026, 29 on May 19, 2026.
Usage Signals
- Structure: 10.1 avg length | 31.5% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.4%) | 2-5 years (0.5%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (15.0%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 31.5% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: the-lord-of-the-rings-the-fellowship-of-the-ring-liho.top (53 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 7w5.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: befitapp.top
- Listed for sale: dashing.top
.org, 10,576 domains
We discovered 10,576 .org domains in today’s report, a 11.4% decrease from yesterday’s 11,933. Of these, 10,507 were registered on May 20, 2026, 2 on May 19, 2026.
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.1 avg length | 74.0% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (93.4%) | 2-5 years (6.2%) | >5 years (0.4%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (27.2%) | Vercel (0.4%) | WordPress.com (0.4%) | Wix (1.6%) | Squarespace (1.6%) | Afternic (0.5%) | Sedo (0.1%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: definitelydidnotspend20dollarsofthecollegesmoneytohostmalware.org (61 chars)
- Shortest SLD: re9.org (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: bankaim.org
- Listed for sale: digitera.org
.vip, 10,450 domains
We discovered 10,450 .vip domains in today’s report. Of these, 6,405 were registered on May 20, 2026, 3,891 on May 19, 2026.
Usage Signals
- Structure: 8.0 avg length | 23.8% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.2%) | 2-5 years (0.7%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (27.2%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 23.8% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: onlinepokies-casinos-australia.vip (30 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 61w.vip (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: credmexs.vip
- Listed for sale: carrent.vip
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 21, 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.