We discovered 367,404 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 350,115 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 488 gTLDs. This is 8.0% lower than yesterday’s Aug 05, 2026 total of 380,679.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.2 avg length | 69.4% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (95.2%) | 2-5 years (4.6%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (21.5%) | Vercel (0.6%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (1.2%) | Squarespace (2.8%) | Afternic (14.8%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.3%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (152,179), .xyz (57,224), .top (22,016).
- .com: 152,179
- .xyz: 57,224
- .top: 22,016
- .icu: 11,724
- .org: 10,539
- .net: 10,390
- .online: 9,329
- .site: 6,671
- .store: 4,886
- .info: 4,678
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 152,179 domains
We discovered 152,179 .com domains in today’s report, a 3.8% increase from yesterday’s 146,637. Of these, 142,146 were registered on Aug 05, 2026, 802 on Aug 04, 2026.
- Godaddy: 26,004 (17.1%)
- Namecheap: 17,146 (11.3%)
- Cloudflare: 10,237 (6.7%)
- Hostinger: 8,327 (5.5%)
- Squarespace: 8,300 (5.5%)
- GMO Internet: 8,280 (5.4%)
- Spaceship: 6,457 (4.2%)
- Dynadot: 4,478 (2.9%)
- Tucows: 4,150 (2.7%)
- Alibaba cloud: 3,964 (2.6%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.4 avg length | 77.3% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (90.9%) | 2-5 years (8.8%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (23.9%) | Vercel (0.8%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (2.2%) | Squarespace (5.3%) | Afternic (0.8%) | Atom.com (0.5%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: rebeccadillonsshortgayasstoldmecraigquitsouthallsosuckitrob.com (59 chars)
- Shortest SLD: an9i.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: telegramcu.com
- Listed for sale: bravekite.com
.xyz, 57,224 domains
We discovered 57,224 .xyz domains in today’s report, a 21.7% decrease from yesterday’s 73,053. Of these, 57,119 were registered on Aug 05, 2026, 46 on Aug 04, 2026.
- GMO Internet: 50,474 (88.2%)
- Spaceship: 1,888 (3.3%)
- Godaddy: 870 (1.5%)
- Namecheap: 743 (1.3%)
- Dynadot: 629 (1.1%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.7 avg length | 88.4% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.9%) | 2-5 years (0.1%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (3.1%) | Vercel (0.2%) | Afternic (88.0%) | Atom.com (0.4%)
TLD opportunity signal: Pure-alphabet share at 88.4% combined with 88.4% on resale platforms suggests this TLD may have promotional or market stimulus driving investment activity. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: nichosdecoracoesindustriaecomerciodemoveis.xyz (42 chars)
- Shortest SLD: ev6.xyz (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: dpgam.xyz
- Listed for sale: indexmoon.xyz
.top, 22,016 domains
We discovered 22,016 .top domains in today’s report, a 10.8% decrease from yesterday’s 24,695. Of these, 21,936 were registered on Aug 05, 2026, 41 on Aug 04, 2026.
- Alibaba cloud: 7,857 (35.7%)
- Godaddy: 5,067 (23.0%)
- Spaceship: 2,969 (13.5%)
- Namesilo: 1,725 (7.8%)
- Dynadot: 1,563 (7.1%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 7.5 avg length | 16.4% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.6%) | 2-5 years (0.3%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (9.7%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 16.4% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: 15ecb1747c0abe4b09324c5e12b51a43.top (32 chars)
- Shortest SLD: lj6.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: zuvvigo.top
- Listed for sale: barter.top
.icu, 11,724 domains
We discovered 11,724 .icu domains in today’s report, a 547.7% increase from yesterday’s 1,810. Of these, 11,665 were registered on Aug 05, 2026, 1 on Aug 04, 2026.
- 59: 9,989 (85.2%)
- West.cn: 520 (4.4%)
- Nicenic: 247 (2.1%)
- Dynadot: 180 (1.5%)
- Todaynic: 160 (1.4%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 8.8 avg length | 4.3% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (100.0%) | 2-5 years (0.0%) | >5 years (0.0%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (5.7%)
Burst signal: 547.7% day-over-day increase. With 5.7% on Cloudflare DNS, more of these domains appear directed toward end-user use than resale.
Registrar concentration signal: 59 accounts for 85.2% of today’s registrations, with no domains observed on Afternic, Sedo, or Atom.com. Worth continued monitoring.
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 4.3% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Short-term usage pattern: All domains are registered for exactly one year, with no resale-platform presence, indicating short-term usage intent. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: qgpogleworkspacesmartviewmn7bxtbv.icu (33 chars)
- Shortest SLD: bs2.icu (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: chenxingke.icu
.org, 10,539 domains
We discovered 10,539 .org domains in today’s report, a 12.0% increase from yesterday’s 9,409. Of these, 10,487 were registered on Aug 05, 2026, 2 on Aug 04, 2026.
- Namecheap: 1,587 (15.1%)
- Dynadot: 1,353 (12.8%)
- Godaddy: 1,335 (12.7%)
- Spaceship: 864 (8.2%)
- Cloudflare: 786 (7.5%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.9 avg length | 72.0% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (92.7%) | 2-5 years (7.0%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (25.8%) | Vercel (0.6%) | WordPress.com (0.5%) | Wix (2.2%) | Squarespace (6.4%) | Afternic (0.3%) | Atom.com (0.1%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: resonance-roots-university-of-wisconsin-stevens-point.org (53 chars)
- Shortest SLD: ht9.org (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: halutz.org
- Listed for sale: partnerre.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 06, 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.