We discovered 279,287 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 256,603 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 465 gTLDs. This is 18.5% lower than yesterday’s Aug 08, 2026 total of 314,669.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 10.6 avg length | 72.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (95.5%) | 2-5 years (4.3%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (18.7%) | Vercel (0.7%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.1%) | Squarespace (2.5%) | Afternic (20.0%) | Sedo (0.2%) | Atom.com (0.3%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (105,241), .xyz (53,608), .top (19,519).
- .com: 105,241
- .xyz: 53,608
- .top: 19,519
- .net: 9,064
- .org: 6,749
- .online: 6,333
- .app: 5,074
- .site: 4,193
- .store: 3,874
- .vip: 3,340
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 105,241 domains
We discovered 105,241 .com domains in today’s report, a 23.8% decrease from yesterday’s 138,192. Of these, 97,939 were registered on Aug 08, 2026, 916 on Aug 07, 2026.
- Godaddy: 15,964 (15.2%)
- Namecheap: 11,145 (10.6%)
- Cloudflare: 8,575 (8.1%)
- Namesilo: 7,018 (6.7%)
- Hostinger: 6,541 (6.2%)
- Squarespace: 5,254 (5.0%)
- GMO Internet: 3,584 (3.4%)
- Spaceship: 3,233 (3.1%)
- Dynadot: 3,227 (3.1%)
- Namebright: 3,163 (3.0%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.0 avg length | 75.8% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.3%) | 2-5 years (8.4%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (22.3%) | Vercel (1.0%) | WordPress.com (0.4%) | Wix (2.2%) | Squarespace (4.8%) | Afternic (1.1%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.3%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: taller-diesel-adomicilio-primemotors-mecanicos-a-domiciliomx.com (60 chars)
- Shortest SLD: ker7.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: jessiedfw.com
- Listed for sale: gchjt.com
.xyz, 53,608 domains
We discovered 53,608 .xyz domains in today’s report, a 6.5% decrease from yesterday’s 57,339. Of these, 53,572 were registered on Aug 08, 2026, 16 on Aug 07, 2026.
- GMO Internet: 49,878 (93.0%)
- Godaddy: 978 (1.8%)
- Dynadot: 563 (1.1%)
- Namecheap: 534 (1.0%)
- Spaceship: 249 (0.5%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 9.7 avg length | 97.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.8%) | 2-5 years (0.1%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (2.2%) | Vercel (0.1%) | Afternic (93.0%) | Atom.com (0.9%)
Single-investor signal: GMO Internet accounts for 93.0% of today’s registrations, combined with 93.9% on resale platforms, suggesting likely a single investor. Worth continued monitoring.
TLD opportunity signal: Pure-alphabet share at 97.6% combined with 93.9% on resale platforms suggests this TLD may have promotional or market stimulus driving investment activity. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: espdadadaadadadadwqdafa31fasfdasdwqdewqrewqfasfsadqwewqewqdas.xyz (61 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 2y8.xyz (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: grvtapp.xyz
- Listed for sale: romanhash.xyz
.top, 19,519 domains
We discovered 19,519 .top domains in today’s report, a 39.3% increase from yesterday’s 14,014. Of these, 19,477 were registered on Aug 08, 2026, 21 on Aug 07, 2026.
- namemart pte. ltd.: 6,231 (31.9%)
- Alibaba cloud: 3,762 (19.3%)
- Spaceship: 3,463 (17.7%)
- Namesilo: 1,636 (8.4%)
- Dynadot: 1,360 (7.0%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 7.1 avg length | 22.0% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.6%) | 2-5 years (0.3%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (9.3%) | Sedo (0.1%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 22.0% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: kumpgg5olzgoijfzz3yi2bxr519imbarmpcjqnkbt5lk32dhfsbbqypoxth.top (59 chars)
- Shortest SLD: t45.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: bidpal.top
- Listed for sale: kinogoc.top
.net, 9,064 domains
We discovered 9,064 .net domains in today’s report, a 9.9% decrease from yesterday’s 10,059. Of these, 364 were registered on Aug 08, 2026, 8,654 on Aug 07, 2026.
- Dynadot: 1,383 (15.3%)
- Godaddy: 1,382 (15.2%)
- Namecheap: 713 (7.9%)
- Cloudflare: 632 (7.0%)
- Namesilo: 533 (5.9%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 10.7 avg length | 71.5% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (92.7%) | 2-5 years (6.9%) | >5 years (0.4%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (27.8%) | Vercel (0.5%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (2.3%) | Squarespace (4.9%) | Afternic (0.3%) | Atom.com (0.1%)
Anomaly signal: Only 364 domains registered on Aug 08, 2026 appears in today’s sample, compared with 8,654 from Aug 07, 2026. This indicates a delay in zone file updates from the registry, not an actual drop in registrations.
Examples
- Longest SLD: golden-bar-pasticceria-di-misseri-vincenzo.net (42 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 7ri.net (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: datasdy.net
- Listed for sale: isole.net
.org, 6,749 domains
We discovered 6,749 .org domains in today’s report, a 23.5% decrease from yesterday’s 8,819. Of these, 6,717 were registered on Aug 08, 2026, 2 on Aug 07, 2026.
- Namecheap: 1,526 (22.6%)
- Godaddy: 940 (13.9%)
- Cloudflare: 597 (8.8%)
- Dynadot: 592 (8.8%)
- Squarespace: 456 (6.8%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.9 avg length | 78.7% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (92.9%) | 2-5 years (6.7%) | >5 years (0.4%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (23.7%) | Vercel (0.7%) | WordPress.com (0.5%) | Wix (2.0%) | Squarespace (6.5%) | Afternic (0.8%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: bonniebhonsleforboardofeducationdistrict5bryancounty.org (52 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 33c.org (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: loreth.org
- Listed for sale: lawvision.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 09, 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.