We discovered 336,464 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 318,090 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 488 gTLDs. This is 7.6% lower than yesterday’s May 22, 2026 total of 344,117.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.1 avg length | 68.0% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (95.0%) | 2-5 years (4.8%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (23.2%) | Vercel (0.6%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.0%) | Squarespace (1.4%) | Afternic (0.6%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (140,087), .top (18,000), .online (15,500).
- .com: 140,087
- .top: 18,000
- .online: 15,500
- .info: 12,080
- .net: 10,180
- .site: 9,856
- .org: 9,737
- .app: 9,599
- .store: 8,406
- .vip: 8,113
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 140,087 domains
We discovered 140,087 .com domains in today’s report, a 10.5% decrease from yesterday’s 156,453. Of these, 131,455 were registered on May 22, 2026, 1,152 on May 21, 2026.
- Godaddy: 22,741 (16.2%)
- Namecheap: 15,974 (11.4%)
- Hostinger: 7,634 (5.4%)
- Cloudflare: 7,433 (5.3%)
- Squarespace: 7,277 (5.2%)
- Namesilo: 7,170 (5.1%)
- Dynadot: 6,305 (4.5%)
- Namebright: 4,704 (3.4%)
- Spaceship: 4,100 (2.9%)
- Tucows: 3,840 (2.7%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.6 avg length | 73.5% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.4%) | 2-5 years (8.3%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (19.3%) | Vercel (0.7%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.8%) | Squarespace (2.5%) | Afternic (1.1%) | Atom.com (0.5%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: xn--n8ja1a0i0eaa1due7980b0vosiotgx75e91a293dk19b1ne6oav384a5y3a.com (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: ygf8.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: tryxilo.com
- Listed for sale: agentmodus.com
.top, 18,000 domains
We discovered 18,000 .top domains in today’s report, a 2.3% increase from yesterday’s 17,588. Of these, 17,790 were registered on May 22, 2026, 93 on May 21, 2026.
- Spaceship: 4,369 (24.3%)
- Eranet: 3,514 (19.5%)
- Godaddy: 2,104 (11.7%)
- Dynadot: 1,797 (10.0%)
- Namesilo: 1,631 (9.1%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 7.9 avg length | 28.0% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.4%) | 2-5 years (0.5%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (11.2%) | Vercel (0.1%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 28.0% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: dictamenprevencionproteccionincendiosqro.top (40 chars)
- Shortest SLD: r9z.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: yoota.top
.online, 15,500 domains
We discovered 15,500 .online domains in today’s report, a 8.9% increase from yesterday’s 14,231. Of these, 7,648 were registered on May 22, 2026, 7,560 on May 21, 2026.
- Namecheap: 3,286 (21.2%)
- Hostinger: 2,578 (16.6%)
- Godaddy: 1,667 (10.8%)
- Reg: 1,345 (8.7%)
- Ionos: 634 (4.1%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.4 avg length | 77.0% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (98.2%) | 2-5 years (1.7%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (14.5%) | Vercel (0.5%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (0.6%) | Squarespace (0.1%) | Sedo (0.1%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: google-site-verificationecub5bkj8sraaesm4c1chn1ilotpag3ygwrbifq.online (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 7jl.online (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: leanclimb.online
- Listed for sale: soldadora.online
.info, 12,080 domains
We discovered 12,080 .info domains in today’s report, a 11.9% increase from yesterday’s 10,791. Of these, 12,058 were registered on May 22, 2026, 10 on May 21, 2026.
- Dynadot: 5,965 (49.4%)
- Porkbun: 1,467 (12.1%)
- Namecheap: 913 (7.6%)
- Spaceship: 843 (7.0%)
- Godaddy: 660 (5.5%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 13.3 avg length | 90.7% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.3%) | 2-5 years (0.6%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (54.3%) | Vercel (0.1%) | Wix (0.3%) | Squarespace (0.4%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: newyorkstatefederationofyoungrepublicanclubs.info (44 chars)
- Shortest SLD: t6m.info (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: termtryhq.info
- Listed for sale: lionheart.info
.net, 10,180 domains
We discovered 10,180 .net domains in today’s report, a 7.2% increase from yesterday’s 9,492. Of these, 552 were registered on May 22, 2026, 9,579 on May 21, 2026.
- Dynadot: 2,712 (26.6%)
- Godaddy: 1,536 (15.1%)
- Namecheap: 1,013 (10.0%)
- Squarespace: 549 (5.4%)
- Cloudflare: 532 (5.2%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.2 avg length | 69.1% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (92.1%) | 2-5 years (7.5%) | >5 years (0.4%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (19.4%) | Vercel (0.2%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (2.7%) | Squarespace (2.7%) | Afternic (0.4%)
Anomaly signal: Only 552 domains registered on May 22, 2026 appears in today’s sample, compared with 9,579 from May 21, 2026. This indicates a delay in zone file updates from the registry, not an actual drop in registrations.
Examples
- Longest SLD: omgomgomg5j4yrr4mjdv3h5c5xfvxtqqs2in7smi65mjps7wvkmqmtqd-onion.net (62 chars)
- Shortest SLD: b60.net (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: breadpilot.net
- Listed for sale: easyphone.net
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 23, 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.