We discovered 229,841 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 216,804 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 448 gTLDs. This is 31.8% lower than yesterday’s May 23, 2026 total of 318,090.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.1 avg length | 68.8% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (94.6%) | 2-5 years (5.2%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (26.1%) | Vercel (0.9%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.2%) | Squarespace (1.6%) | Afternic (0.7%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (101,581), .app (15,650), .top (12,449).
- .com: 101,581
- .app: 15,650
- .top: 12,449
- .net: 9,142
- .org: 6,723
- .xyz: 6,448
- .online: 6,447
- .info: 4,405
- .store: 4,110
- .biz: 3,892
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 101,581 domains
We discovered 101,581 .com domains in today’s report, a 27.5% decrease from yesterday’s 140,087. Of these, 93,389 were registered on May 23, 2026, 2,042 on May 22, 2026.
- Godaddy: 16,392 (16.1%)
- Namecheap: 11,238 (11.1%)
- Hostinger: 6,421 (6.3%)
- Cloudflare: 6,308 (6.2%)
- Squarespace: 5,586 (5.5%)
- Namesrs: 4,471 (4.4%)
- Namebright: 4,317 (4.2%)
- Tucows: 3,355 (3.3%)
- Spaceship: 2,805 (2.8%)
- Namesilo: 2,379 (2.3%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.1 avg length | 77.2% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.2%) | 2-5 years (8.5%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (19.3%) | Vercel (0.8%) | WordPress.com (0.4%) | Wix (2.0%) | Squarespace (2.6%) | Afternic (1.3%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.3%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: 1xsfhlwpoaoortkqznbeuqet4eapxcjetsgqwumghad9atrqlasgeroqwn61ggz.com (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 2vm3.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: darkrouter.com
- Listed for sale: ideabad.com
.app, 15,650 domains
We discovered 15,650 .app domains in today’s report, a 63.0% increase from yesterday’s 9,599. Of these, 0 were registered on May 23, 2026, 4,347 on May 22, 2026.
- Dynadot: 8,507 (54.4%)
- Gname: 1,290 (8.2%)
- Godaddy: 1,195 (7.6%)
- Cloudflare: 1,093 (7.0%)
- Namecheap: 926 (5.9%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 8.3 avg length | 55.4% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (97.7%) | 2-5 years (2.3%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (42.5%) | Vercel (2.8%) | Squarespace (0.3%) | Afternic (0.1%)
Burst signal: 63.0% day-over-day increase. With 42.5% on Cloudflare DNS, more of these domains appear directed toward end-user use than resale.
Anomaly signal: Only 0 domains registered on May 23, 2026 appears in today’s sample, compared with 4,347 from May 22, 2026. This indicates a delay in zone file updates from the registry, not an actual drop in registrations.
Examples
- Longest SLD: aeavwpikajlstllqfwvmjskboaauqge.app (31 chars)
- Shortest SLD: ydg.app (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: podfocus.app
- Listed for sale: sharpfi.app
.top, 12,449 domains
We discovered 12,449 .top domains in today’s report, a 30.8% decrease from yesterday’s 18,000. Of these, 12,356 were registered on May 23, 2026, 47 on May 22, 2026.
- Godaddy: 3,168 (25.4%)
- Namesilo: 1,487 (11.9%)
- Spaceship: 1,428 (11.5%)
- Dynadot: 1,296 (10.4%)
- Eranet: 1,052 (8.5%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 7.4 avg length | 34.2% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.3%) | 2-5 years (0.6%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (15.9%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 34.2% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: khodyachie-mertvetsy-mertvyy-gorod-serial.top (41 chars)
- Shortest SLD: a46.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: mtrbwq.top
.net, 9,142 domains
We discovered 9,142 .net domains in today’s report, a 10.2% decrease from yesterday’s 10,180. Of these, 457 were registered on May 23, 2026, 8,630 on May 22, 2026.
- Dynadot: 1,774 (19.4%)
- Godaddy: 1,488 (16.3%)
- Namecheap: 869 (9.5%)
- Squarespace: 558 (6.1%)
- Cloudflare: 556 (6.1%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 10.8 avg length | 71.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (92.0%) | 2-5 years (7.6%) | >5 years (0.4%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (17.2%) | Vercel (0.2%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (2.9%) | Squarespace (2.9%) | Afternic (0.2%)
Anomaly signal: Only 457 domains registered on May 23, 2026 appears in today’s sample, compared with 8,630 from May 22, 2026. This indicates a delay in zone file updates from the registry, not an actual drop in registrations.
Examples
- Longest SLD: yhgtfvgdtrwesdchbnjuolkmjnhbswderfgtcvgfbaqwsd.net (46 chars)
- Shortest SLD: u0d.net (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: byharashta.net
- Listed for sale: chatglm.net
.org, 6,723 domains
We discovered 6,723 .org domains in today’s report, a 31.0% decrease from yesterday’s 9,737. Of these, 6,678 were registered on May 23, 2026, 0 on May 22, 2026.
- Namecheap: 1,203 (17.9%)
- Godaddy: 894 (13.3%)
- Cloudflare: 619 (9.2%)
- Dynadot: 568 (8.4%)
- Ionos: 518 (7.7%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.2 avg length | 79.3% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (92.8%) | 2-5 years (6.9%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (23.1%) | Vercel (0.5%) | WordPress.com (0.8%) | Wix (2.2%) | Squarespace (3.5%) | Afternic (0.3%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: oeuvres-hospitalieres-francaises-de-lordre-de-saint-laza.org (56 chars)
- Shortest SLD: vf8.org (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: civicship.org
- Listed for sale: mybuilder.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 24, 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.