We discovered 300,906 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 283,791 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 478 gTLDs. This is 3.2% lower than yesterday’s Jul 17, 2026 total of 293,195.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 10.8 avg length | 65.5% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (94.5%) | 2-5 years (5.3%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (23.9%) | Vercel (0.9%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.1%) | Squarespace (3.2%) | Afternic (0.5%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (132,199), .top (40,239), .net (10,495).
- .com: 132,199
- .top: 40,239
- .net: 10,495
- .org: 8,435
- .online: 7,907
- .xyz: 5,590
- .site: 5,558
- .app: 4,841
- .click: 4,356
- .store: 4,326
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 132,199 domains
We discovered 132,199 .com domains in today’s report, a 9.3% decrease from yesterday’s 145,772. Of these, 124,198 were registered on Jul 17, 2026, 672 on Jul 16, 2026.
- Godaddy: 20,675 (15.6%)
- Namecheap: 15,658 (11.8%)
- Cloudflare: 9,393 (7.1%)
- Squarespace: 7,697 (5.8%)
- Hostinger: 7,455 (5.6%)
- GMO Internet: 5,042 (3.8%)
- Amazon: 4,504 (3.4%)
- Spaceship: 4,201 (3.2%)
- Alibaba cloud: 4,024 (3.0%)
- Namebright: 3,813 (2.9%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.6 avg length | 80.0% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (90.4%) | 2-5 years (9.3%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (23.6%) | Vercel (1.0%) | WordPress.com (0.4%) | Wix (2.0%) | Squarespace (5.6%) | Afternic (0.9%) | Atom.com (0.5%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: thesanctuarygolfcourseextensionroadsector67gurgaonsmartworld.com (60 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 9ug.com (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: hallbrief.com
- Listed for sale: docuture.com
.top, 40,239 domains
We discovered 40,239 .top domains in today’s report, a 237.2% increase from yesterday’s 11,932. Of these, 40,014 were registered on Jul 17, 2026, 50 on Jul 16, 2026.
- Godaddy: 30,459 (75.7%)
- Namesilo: 2,174 (5.4%)
- Alibaba cloud: 2,027 (5.0%)
- Dynadot: 1,788 (4.4%)
- West.cn: 897 (2.2%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 5.8 avg length | 7.3% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.8%) | 2-5 years (0.2%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (5.4%)
Burst signal: 237.2% day-over-day increase. With 5.4% on Cloudflare DNS, more of these domains appear directed toward end-user use than resale.
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 7.3% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: couvreur-woluwe-saint-pierre-rivedetoiture.top (42 chars)
- Shortest SLD: hi6.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: iddos.top
- Listed for sale: prilixgn.top
.net, 10,495 domains
We discovered 10,495 .net domains in today’s report, a 3.9% increase from yesterday’s 10,101. Of these, 489 were registered on Jul 17, 2026, 9,960 on Jul 16, 2026.
- Dynadot: 2,120 (20.2%)
- Godaddy: 1,589 (15.1%)
- Namecheap: 950 (9.1%)
- Cloudflare: 610 (5.8%)
- Squarespace: 509 (4.8%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 10.4 avg length | 64.9% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (92.9%) | 2-5 years (6.8%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (23.1%) | Vercel (0.3%) | WordPress.com (0.1%) | Wix (2.0%) | Squarespace (4.7%) | Afternic (0.2%)
Anomaly signal: Only 489 domains registered on Jul 17, 2026 appears in today’s sample, compared with 9,960 from Jul 16, 2026. This indicates a delay in zone file updates from the registry, not an actual drop in registrations.
Examples
- Longest SLD: xn--12caazb4eec8bi6bxbacljdc4v6a0c7ab9c3mg2te7a.net (47 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 4oo.net (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: ozledim.net
- Listed for sale: immersiv.net
.org, 8,435 domains
We discovered 8,435 .org domains in today’s report, a 6.2% decrease from yesterday’s 8,989. Of these, 8,357 were registered on Jul 17, 2026, 30 on Jul 16, 2026.
- Namecheap: 1,686 (20.0%)
- Godaddy: 1,283 (15.2%)
- Cloudflare: 693 (8.2%)
- Squarespace: 658 (7.8%)
- Dynadot: 601 (7.1%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.8 avg length | 82.8% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (92.0%) | 2-5 years (7.5%) | >5 years (0.5%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (27.1%) | Vercel (0.8%) | WordPress.com (0.6%) | Wix (1.7%) | Squarespace (7.7%) | Afternic (0.3%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: commercialpropertymanagementexpertincharlestonsc.org (48 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 5mw.org (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: ccshelena.org
- Listed for sale: hotstone.org
.online, 7,907 domains
We discovered 7,907 .online domains in today’s report, a 7.3% decrease from yesterday’s 8,530. Of these, 7,585 were registered on Jul 17, 2026, 20 on Jul 16, 2026.
- Namecheap: 1,637 (20.7%)
- Hostinger: 1,226 (15.5%)
- Godaddy: 898 (11.4%)
- Reg: 709 (9.0%)
- Publicdomainregistry: 389 (4.9%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.4 avg length | 79.0% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (98.1%) | 2-5 years (1.8%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (18.3%) | Vercel (0.7%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (0.2%) | Squarespace (0.2%) | Afternic (0.3%) | Sedo (0.6%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: fishermanshideawaytennesseeriverrvpark.online (38 chars)
- Shortest SLD: k-l.online (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: hominic.online
- Listed for sale: gekso.online
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, Jul 18, 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.