NRDS · August 1, 2026

Daily Newly Registered Domains Intelligence: 251,299 Discovered Across 482 gTLDs on Aug 01, 2026

We discovered 270,974 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 251,299 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 482 gTLDs. This is 7.3% lower than yesterday’s Jul 31, 2026 total of 271,189.

Overall Usage Signals

Usage Signals

TLD Distribution

The top three TLDs today are .com (129,356), .vip (13,817), .top (13,035).

Top gTLDs by newly registered domains volume on Aug 01, 2026

Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution

.com, 129,356 domains

We discovered 129,356 .com domains in today’s report, a 5.9% decrease from yesterday’s 137,492. Of these, 121,667 were registered on Jul 31, 2026, 516 on Jul 30, 2026.

Top 10 registrars for .com newly registered domains on Aug 01, 2026

Usage Signals

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.vip, 13,817 domains

We discovered 13,817 .vip domains in today’s report, a 303.3% increase from yesterday’s 3,426. Of these, 3,389 were registered on Jul 31, 2026, 3 on Jul 30, 2026.

Top 5 registrars for .vip newly registered domains on Aug 01, 2026

Usage Signals

Burst signal: 303.3% day-over-day increase. With 10.2% on Cloudflare DNS, more of these domains appear directed toward end-user use than resale.

Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 14.8% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.

Examples

.top, 13,035 domains

We discovered 13,035 .top domains in today’s report, a 43.1% decrease from yesterday’s 22,891. Of these, 12,954 were registered on Jul 31, 2026, 37 on Jul 30, 2026.

Top top 5 registrars for .2026 newly registered domains on Aug 01, 2026

Usage Signals

Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 21.1% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.

Examples

.net, 8,802 domains

We discovered 8,802 .net domains in today’s report, a 0.1% decrease from yesterday’s 8,810. Of these, 469 were registered on Jul 31, 2026, 8,300 on Jul 30, 2026.

Top 5 registrars for .net newly registered domains on Aug 01, 2026

Usage Signals

Anomaly signal: Only 469 domains registered on Jul 31, 2026 appears in today’s sample, compared with 8,300 from Jul 30, 2026. This indicates a delay in zone file updates from the registry, not an actual drop in registrations.

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.org, 8,165 domains

We discovered 8,165 .org domains in today’s report, a 16.7% decrease from yesterday’s 9,801. Of these, 8,124 were registered on Jul 31, 2026, 1 on Jul 30, 2026.

Top 5 registrars for .org newly registered domains on Aug 01, 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.