We discovered 278,866 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 265,516 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 482 gTLDs. This is 14.9% lower than yesterday’s May 28, 2026 total of 312,149.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.5 avg length | 68.4% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (93.7%) | 2-5 years (6.0%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (23.5%) | Vercel (0.8%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.4%) | Squarespace (1.9%) | Afternic (0.6%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.1%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (141,661), .top (16,528), .app (9,032).
- .com: 141,661
- .top: 16,528
- .app: 9,032
- .org: 8,830
- .net: 8,007
- .online: 7,921
- .info: 7,432
- .xyz: 4,843
- .site: 4,222
- .vip: 4,103
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 141,661 domains
We discovered 141,661 .com domains in today’s report, a 3.0% increase from yesterday’s 137,555. Of these, 131,216 were registered on May 28, 2026, 1,412 on May 27, 2026.
- Godaddy: 24,091 (17.0%)
- Namecheap: 13,741 (9.7%)
- Metaregistrar: 8,827 (6.2%)
- Squarespace: 8,324 (5.9%)
- Cloudflare: 8,220 (5.8%)
- Hostinger: 7,292 (5.1%)
- Namesilo: 5,221 (3.7%)
- Namebright: 4,494 (3.2%)
- Tucows: 4,346 (3.1%)
- Spaceship: 4,023 (2.8%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.6 avg length | 72.3% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (90.6%) | 2-5 years (9.0%) | >5 years (0.4%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (18.7%) | Vercel (0.7%) | WordPress.com (0.4%) | Wix (2.2%) | Squarespace (2.9%) | Afternic (0.8%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: google-site-verificationecub5bkj8sraaesm4c1chn1ilotpag3ygwrbifq.com (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: n2qw.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: sacadiez.com
- Listed for sale: bapani.com
.top, 16,528 domains
We discovered 16,528 .top domains in today’s report, a 56.7% decrease from yesterday’s 38,214. Of these, 16,395 were registered on May 28, 2026, 78 on May 27, 2026.
- Spaceship: 3,871 (23.4%)
- Godaddy: 3,484 (21.1%)
- Dynadot: 2,330 (14.1%)
- Namesilo: 1,703 (10.3%)
- Eranet: 1,507 (9.1%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 7.6 avg length | 26.1% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.2%) | 2-5 years (0.6%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (16.8%)
Burst signal: 56.7% day-over-day decrease. With 16.8% on Cloudflare DNS, more of these domains appear directed toward end-user use than resale.
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 26.1% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: dfs76iu2390fgjnk456y8723jhsdf734hjueerfg89734hjby8fgbn234gf.top (59 chars)
- Shortest SLD: hth.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: brasa.top
.app, 9,032 domains
We discovered 9,032 .app domains in today’s report, a 0.3% increase from yesterday’s 9,006. Of these, 2,974 were registered on May 28, 2026, 4,400 on May 27, 2026.
- Dynadot: 2,406 (26.6%)
- Godaddy: 1,456 (16.1%)
- Cloudflare: 1,175 (13.0%)
- Namecheap: 896 (9.9%)
- Name: 747 (8.3%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 8.4 avg length | 64.8% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (97.1%) | 2-5 years (2.8%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (32.5%) | Vercel (4.6%) | WordPress.com (0.1%) | Wix (0.1%) | Squarespace (0.6%) | Afternic (0.2%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: tiny-chick-pip-farm-escape-play.app (31 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 3vk.app (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: oneround.app
- Listed for sale: jola.app
.org, 8,830 domains
We discovered 8,830 .org domains in today’s report, a 8.6% decrease from yesterday’s 9,658. Of these, 8,788 were registered on May 28, 2026, 3 on May 27, 2026.
- Namecheap: 1,439 (16.3%)
- Godaddy: 1,353 (15.3%)
- Cloudflare: 784 (8.9%)
- Squarespace: 725 (8.2%)
- Ionos: 656 (7.4%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.7 avg length | 78.9% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (90.8%) | 2-5 years (8.5%) | >5 years (0.7%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (21.6%) | Vercel (0.5%) | WordPress.com (0.7%) | Wix (2.0%) | Squarespace (3.9%) | Afternic (0.3%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: theoverlookatmariettacountryclubmariettaneighborhood.org (52 chars)
- Shortest SLD: jc1.org (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: learntopia.org
- Listed for sale: quantiv.org
.net, 8,007 domains
We discovered 8,007 .net domains in today’s report, a 10.9% decrease from yesterday’s 8,984. Of these, 587 were registered on May 28, 2026, 7,367 on May 27, 2026.
- Godaddy: 1,427 (17.8%)
- Dynadot: 1,128 (14.1%)
- Namecheap: 858 (10.7%)
- Cloudflare: 557 (7.0%)
- Squarespace: 500 (6.2%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.0 avg length | 73.9% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (90.3%) | 2-5 years (9.1%) | >5 years (0.6%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (27.1%) | Vercel (0.3%) | WordPress.com (0.1%) | Wix (3.4%) | Squarespace (3.0%) | Afternic (0.2%)
Anomaly signal: Only 587 domains registered on May 28, 2026 appears in today’s sample, compared with 7,367 from May 27, 2026. This indicates a delay in zone file updates from the registry, not an actual drop in registrations.
Examples
- Longest SLD: mhyutgfrdewsdcfvghtyujhbgvfcdxzsawqytrewdsfrtghy.net (48 chars)
- Shortest SLD: wn8.net (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: bereancc.net
- Listed for sale: njse.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 29, 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.