We discovered 211,146 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 197,922 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 470 gTLDs. This is 1.5% higher than yesterday’s Aug 02, 2026 total of 195,008.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.0 avg length | 66.9% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (94.1%) | 2-5 years (5.7%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (24.3%) | Vercel (1.0%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.3%) | Squarespace (3.5%) | Afternic (0.6%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (104,456), .top (17,039), .net (6,930).
- .com: 104,456
- .top: 17,039
- .net: 6,930
- .online: 6,056
- .org: 5,921
- .app: 5,642
- .site: 4,552
- .store: 3,629
- .xyz: 3,514
- .vip: 3,482
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 104,456 domains
We discovered 104,456 .com domains in today’s report, a 3.2% increase from yesterday’s 101,245. Of these, 95,295 were registered on Aug 02, 2026, 724 on Aug 01, 2026.
- Godaddy: 16,716 (16.0%)
- Namecheap: 9,819 (9.4%)
- Cloudflare: 8,613 (8.2%)
- Squarespace: 5,907 (5.7%)
- Hostinger: 5,859 (5.6%)
- GMO Internet: 4,574 (4.4%)
- Alibaba cloud: 4,502 (4.3%)
- Namebright: 3,197 (3.1%)
- Tucows: 3,093 (3.0%)
- Realtimeregister: 2,911 (2.8%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.2 avg length | 76.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (90.9%) | 2-5 years (8.9%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (20.5%) | Vercel (1.0%) | WordPress.com (0.4%) | Wix (2.1%) | Squarespace (5.4%) | Afternic (0.9%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: google-site-verification-csuy-qgkzgtkvjdgaw-dutzemae03mvsfu-ils.com (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 62lv.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: prisware.com
- Listed for sale: techmadman.com
.top, 17,039 domains
We discovered 17,039 .top domains in today’s report, a 34.4% increase from yesterday’s 12,681. Of these, 16,999 were registered on Aug 02, 2026, 23 on Aug 01, 2026.
- Alibaba cloud: 5,123 (30.1%)
- Godaddy: 4,247 (24.9%)
- Spaceship: 1,947 (11.4%)
- Namesilo: 1,891 (11.1%)
- Dynadot: 1,250 (7.3%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 6.8 avg length | 14.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.5%) | 2-5 years (0.4%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (10.4%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 14.6% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: proletaya-nad-gnezdom-kukushki-1975.top (35 chars)
- Shortest SLD: qd8.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: vasgan.top
- Listed for sale: pawnshop.top
.net, 6,930 domains
We discovered 6,930 .net domains in today’s report, a 15.7% decrease from yesterday’s 8,217. Of these, 384 were registered on Aug 02, 2026, 6,517 on Aug 01, 2026.
- Dynadot: 1,003 (14.5%)
- Godaddy: 932 (13.4%)
- Namesilo: 687 (9.9%)
- Namecheap: 563 (8.1%)
- Cloudflare: 551 (8.0%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 10.4 avg length | 73.3% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (93.3%) | 2-5 years (6.3%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (24.1%) | Vercel (0.3%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (2.1%) | Squarespace (4.8%) | Afternic (0.2%)
Anomaly signal: Only 384 domains registered on Aug 02, 2026 appears in today’s sample, compared with 6,517 from Aug 01, 2026. This indicates a delay in zone file updates from the registry, not an actual drop in registrations.
Examples
- Longest SLD: michiganonlinedriverslicenserestoration.net (39 chars)
- Shortest SLD: oj8.net (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: sfqs.net
- Listed for sale: isne.net
.online, 6,056 domains
We discovered 6,056 .online domains in today’s report, a 2.6% decrease from yesterday’s 6,220. Of these, 5,773 were registered on Aug 02, 2026, 8 on Aug 01, 2026.
- Namecheap: 1,258 (20.8%)
- Hostinger: 1,031 (17.0%)
- Godaddy: 626 (10.3%)
- Reg: 448 (7.4%)
- Spaceship: 282 (4.7%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.5 avg length | 81.3% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (98.1%) | 2-5 years (1.8%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (19.9%) | Vercel (1.0%) | WordPress.com (0.4%) | Wix (0.4%) | Squarespace (0.1%) | Afternic (0.3%) | Sedo (1.2%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: foundational-pat-12523214-creates-infinite-ai-energy-onsite.online (59 chars)
- Shortest SLD: i9x.online (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: kratifitas.online
- Listed for sale: novatec.online
.org, 5,921 domains
We discovered 5,921 .org domains in today’s report, a 9.0% decrease from yesterday’s 6,508. Of these, 5,881 were registered on Aug 02, 2026, 1 on Aug 01, 2026.
- Namecheap: 930 (15.7%)
- Godaddy: 774 (13.1%)
- Cloudflare: 634 (10.7%)
- Dynadot: 561 (9.5%)
- Squarespace: 447 (7.5%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.7 avg length | 78.4% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (92.5%) | 2-5 years (7.1%) | >5 years (0.4%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (24.0%) | Vercel (0.6%) | WordPress.com (0.9%) | Wix (2.6%) | Squarespace (7.4%) | Afternic (0.2%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.1%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: 01001001011011010101001101101111011100100111001001111001.org (56 chars)
- Shortest SLD: cn5.org (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: bomapak.org
- Listed for sale: hexitec.org
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, Aug 03, 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.