NRDS · May 26, 2026

Daily Newly Registered Domains Intelligence: 334,262 Discovered Across 471 gTLDs on May 26, 2026

We discovered 351,551 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 334,262 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 471 gTLDs. This is 52.2% higher than yesterday’s May 25, 2026 total of 219,613.

Overall Usage Signals

Usage Signals

TLD Distribution

The top three TLDs today are .com (162,191), .lol (31,057), .top (30,246).

Top gTLDs by newly registered domains volume on May 26, 2026

Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution

.com, 162,191 domains

We discovered 162,191 .com domains in today’s report, a 57.0% increase from yesterday’s 103,281. Of these, 150,870 were registered on May 25, 2026, 1,715 on May 24, 2026.

Top 10 registrars for .com newly registered domains on May 26, 2026

Usage Signals

Burst signal: 57.0% day-over-day increase. With 16.9% on Cloudflare DNS, more of these domains appear directed toward end-user use than resale.

Examples

.lol, 31,057 domains

We discovered 31,057 .lol domains in today’s report, a 6424.6% increase from yesterday’s 476. Of these, 26,743 were registered on May 25, 2026, 1 on May 24, 2026.

Top 5 registrars for .lol newly registered domains on May 26, 2026

Usage Signals

Burst signal: 6424.6% day-over-day increase. With 5.1% on Cloudflare DNS, more of these domains appear directed toward end-user use than resale.

Registrar concentration signal: GMO Internet accounts for 93.9% of today’s registrations, with no domains observed on Afternic, Sedo, or Atom.com. 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

.top, 30,246 domains

We discovered 30,246 .top domains in today’s report, a 26.9% increase from yesterday’s 23,841. Of these, 30,038 were registered on May 25, 2026, 81 on May 24, 2026.

Top top 5 registrars for .2026 newly registered domains on May 26, 2026

Usage Signals

Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 16.7% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.

Examples

.org, 9,768 domains

We discovered 9,768 .org domains in today’s report, a 49.3% increase from yesterday’s 6,544. Of these, 9,717 were registered on May 25, 2026, 3 on May 24, 2026.

Top 5 registrars for .org newly registered domains on May 26, 2026

Usage Signals

Examples

.online, 8,087 domains

We discovered 8,087 .online domains in today’s report, a 35.6% increase from yesterday’s 5,963. Of these, 7,785 were registered on May 25, 2026, 4 on May 24, 2026.

Top 5 registrars for .online newly registered domains on May 26, 2026

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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.