We discovered 328,504 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 344,117 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 483 gTLDs. This is 5.5% higher than yesterday’s May 21, 2026 total of 326,167.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.1 avg length | 66.9% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (94.8%) | 2-5 years (5.0%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (23.1%) | Vercel (0.6%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.1%) | Squarespace (1.6%) | Afternic (0.6%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (156,453), .lol (18,602), .top (17,588).
- .com: 156,453
- .lol: 18,602
- .top: 17,588
- .online: 14,231
- .info: 10,791
- .org: 9,965
- .app: 9,599
- .net: 9,492
- .xyz: 8,590
- .site: 8,381
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 156,453 domains
We discovered 156,453 .com domains in today’s report, a 2.2% decrease from yesterday’s 159,997. Of these, 145,750 were registered on May 21, 2026, 934 on May 20, 2026.
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.5 avg length | 74.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.1%) | 2-5 years (8.6%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (18.4%) | Vercel (0.7%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.9%) | Squarespace (2.8%) | Afternic (1.0%) | Atom.com (0.5%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: xn--314–4dod5bbbcatn5a6nqbki1ksabo0mta1leh4acdfm6dwyde11a.com (58 chars)
- Shortest SLD: y62b.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: leanpdm.com
- Listed for sale: mbbequity.com
.lol, 18,602 domains
We discovered 18,602 .lol domains in today’s report, a 111.5% increase from yesterday’s 8,797. Of these, 18,585 were registered on May 21, 2026, 0 on May 20, 2026.
Usage Signals
- Structure: 9.7 avg length | 39.9% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (100.0%) | 2-5 years (0.0%) | >5 years (0.0%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (13.7%)
Burst signal: 111.5% day-over-day increase. With 13.7% on Cloudflare DNS, more of these domains appear directed toward end-user use than resale.
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 39.9% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
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: zhejiangfulicaipiaozhongxinduijiangdatingdizhi.lol (46 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 5×7.lol (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: jiuqipai.lol
.top, 17,588 domains
We discovered 17,588 .top domains in today’s report, a 47.1% increase from yesterday’s 11,958. Of these, 17,399 were registered on May 21, 2026, 77 on May 20, 2026.
Usage Signals
- Structure: 8.7 avg length | 40.3% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.2%) | 2-5 years (0.6%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (12.3%) | Vercel (0.1%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 40.3% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: nexuse7l4nv4ugxlolun7z2afroxkjovddnlz8ubmkofappffudzwgqd.top (56 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 91q.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: consultare.top
- Listed for sale: blanklabel.top
.online, 14,231 domains
We discovered 14,231 .online domains in today’s report, a 13.7% decrease from yesterday’s 16,494. Of these, 7,843 were registered on May 21, 2026, 6,037 on May 20, 2026.
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.5 avg length | 79.1% 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%) | Sedo (0.1%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: peak2pacificoutdooradventuresenvironmentaleducation.online (51 chars)
- Shortest SLD: cp3.online (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: matiq.online
- Listed for sale: dubaicreek.online
.info, 10,791 domains
We discovered 10,791 .info domains in today’s report, a 25.4% increase from yesterday’s 8,608. Of these, 10,768 were registered on May 21, 2026, 14 on May 20, 2026.
Usage Signals
- Structure: 13.7 avg length | 67.4% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (98.9%) | 2-5 years (0.9%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (66.2%) | Vercel (0.1%) | Wix (0.3%) | Squarespace (0.5%) | Afternic (0.1%) | Sedo (0.1%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: testingdomainorderasexistingcustomer.info (36 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 1wg.info (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: arxelomint.info
- Listed for sale: mitigate.info
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 22, 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.