NRDS · May 31, 2026

Daily Newly Registered Domains Intelligence: 215,527 Discovered Across 463 gTLDs on May 31, 2026

We discovered 231,999 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 215,527 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 463 gTLDs. This is 18.5% lower than yesterday’s May 30, 2026 total of 264,503.

Overall Usage Signals

Usage Signals

TLD Distribution

The top three TLDs today are .com (103,132), .top (25,365), .app (12,784).

Top gTLDs by newly registered domains volume on May 31, 2026

Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution

.com, 103,132 domains

We discovered 103,132 .com domains in today’s report, a 23.3% decrease from yesterday’s 134,450. Of these, 94,527 were registered on May 30, 2026, 2,190 on May 29, 2026.

Top 10 registrars for .com newly registered domains on May 31, 2026

Usage Signals

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.top, 25,365 domains

We discovered 25,365 .top domains in today’s report, a 85.2% increase from yesterday’s 13,696. Of these, 25,231 were registered on May 30, 2026, 76 on May 29, 2026.

Top top 5 registrars for .2026 newly registered domains on May 31, 2026

Usage Signals

Burst signal: 85.2% day-over-day increase. With 8.1% on Cloudflare DNS, more of these domains appear directed toward end-user use than resale.

Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 11.0% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.

Examples

.app, 12,784 domains

We discovered 12,784 .app domains in today’s report, a 22.8% decrease from yesterday’s 16,568. Of these, 2,917 were registered on May 30, 2026, 8,861 on May 29, 2026.

Top 5 registrars for .app newly registered domains on May 31, 2026

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.net, 8,764 domains

We discovered 8,764 .net domains in today’s report, a 14.6% increase from yesterday’s 7,648. Of these, 504 were registered on May 30, 2026, 8,204 on May 29, 2026.

Top 5 registrars for .net newly registered domains on May 31, 2026

Usage Signals

Anomaly signal: Only 504 domains registered on May 30, 2026 appears in today’s sample, compared with 8,204 from May 29, 2026. This indicates a delay in zone file updates from the registry, not an actual drop in registrations.

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.org, 7,874 domains

We discovered 7,874 .org domains in today’s report, a 10.5% decrease from yesterday’s 8,797. Of these, 7,829 were registered on May 30, 2026, 5 on May 29, 2026.

Top 5 registrars for .org newly registered domains on May 31, 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.