We discovered 257,678 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 234,468 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 457 gTLDs. This is 8.6% lower than yesterday’s Aug 09, 2026 total of 256,603.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.0 avg length | 76.0% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (95.3%) | 2-5 years (4.5%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (21.4%) | Vercel (0.8%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.2%) | Squarespace (2.7%) | Afternic (22.4%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.3%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (98,293), .xyz (55,299), .top (10,392).
- .com: 98,293
- .xyz: 55,299
- .top: 10,392
- .net: 7,662
- .org: 7,107
- .online: 6,032
- .site: 4,738
- .store: 3,639
- .app: 3,265
- .vip: 2,753
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 98,293 domains
We discovered 98,293 .com domains in today’s report, a 6.6% decrease from yesterday’s 105,241. Of these, 89,792 were registered on Aug 09, 2026, 769 on Aug 08, 2026.
- Godaddy: 15,206 (15.5%)
- Namecheap: 11,491 (11.7%)
- Cloudflare: 8,885 (9.0%)
- Hostinger: 5,860 (6.0%)
- Squarespace: 5,309 (5.4%)
- Namesilo: 3,707 (3.8%)
- Spaceship: 3,125 (3.2%)
- Namebright: 3,050 (3.1%)
- Tucows: 3,004 (3.1%)
- GMO Internet: 2,847 (2.9%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.2 avg length | 78.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (90.8%) | 2-5 years (8.9%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (22.8%) | Vercel (1.0%) | WordPress.com (0.4%) | Wix (2.3%) | Squarespace (5.2%) | Afternic (1.1%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.3%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: youneedtoactuallybookthetripandstoptalkingaboutitinthegroupchat.com (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: daa9.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: howjensen.com
- Listed for sale: kointact.com
.xyz, 55,299 domains
We discovered 55,299 .xyz domains in today’s report, a 3.2% increase from yesterday’s 53,608. Of these, 54,804 were registered on Aug 09, 2026, 480 on Aug 08, 2026.
- GMO Internet: 51,144 (92.5%)
- Dynadot: 1,031 (1.9%)
- Godaddy: 894 (1.6%)
- Namecheap: 539 (1.0%)
- Spaceship: 218 (0.4%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 10.4 avg length | 93.7% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.9%) | 2-5 years (0.1%) | >5 years (0.0%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (2.9%) | Vercel (0.1%) | Afternic (92.5%) | Atom.com (0.8%)
Single-investor signal: GMO Internet accounts for 92.5% of today’s registrations, combined with 93.3% on resale platforms, suggesting likely a single investor. Worth continued monitoring.
TLD opportunity signal: Pure-alphabet share at 93.7% combined with 93.3% on resale platforms suggests this TLD may have promotional or market stimulus driving investment activity. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: jahoumomentosquetudopqreciaumaalegriamasontemmorreuozptg.xyz (56 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 6v2.xyz (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: launchivo.xyz
- Listed for sale: stayfresh.xyz
.top, 10,392 domains
We discovered 10,392 .top domains in today’s report, a 46.8% decrease from yesterday’s 19,519. Of these, 10,341 were registered on Aug 09, 2026, 23 on Aug 08, 2026.
- Alibaba cloud: 3,767 (36.2%)
- Spaceship: 1,990 (19.1%)
- Dynadot: 1,275 (12.3%)
- Namesilo: 775 (7.5%)
- Gname: 506 (4.9%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 7.6 avg length | 26.2% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.1%) | 2-5 years (0.7%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (19.8%) | Sedo (0.1%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 26.2% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: botdksnvnsdvsvkdmvdskvsvdnvsnvsxxx.top (34 chars)
- Shortest SLD: bu2.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: nvshenhai.top
- Listed for sale: mcmong.top
.net, 7,662 domains
We discovered 7,662 .net domains in today’s report, a 15.5% decrease from yesterday’s 9,064. Of these, 349 were registered on Aug 09, 2026, 7,292 on Aug 08, 2026.
- Dynadot: 1,775 (23.2%)
- Godaddy: 974 (12.7%)
- Namecheap: 575 (7.5%)
- Cloudflare: 550 (7.2%)
- Namesilo: 462 (6.0%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 9.8 avg length | 64.7% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (93.9%) | 2-5 years (5.8%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (29.8%) | Vercel (0.5%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (2.2%) | Squarespace (4.1%) | Afternic (0.2%) | Sedo (0.1%)
Anomaly signal: Only 349 domains registered on Aug 09, 2026 appears in today’s sample, compared with 7,292 from Aug 08, 2026. This indicates a delay in zone file updates from the registry, not an actual drop in registrations.
Examples
- Longest SLD: coalitionagainstmortgagefraudinamerica.net (38 chars)
- Shortest SLD: oa6.net (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: eqcheck.net
- Listed for sale: riotinto.net
.org, 7,107 domains
We discovered 7,107 .org domains in today’s report, a 5.3% increase from yesterday’s 6,749. Of these, 7,074 were registered on Aug 09, 2026, 1 on Aug 08, 2026.
- Dynadot: 1,382 (19.4%)
- Namecheap: 1,211 (17.0%)
- Godaddy: 805 (11.3%)
- Cloudflare: 621 (8.7%)
- Spaceship: 427 (6.0%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.4 avg length | 69.3% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (94.1%) | 2-5 years (5.7%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (23.0%) | Vercel (0.5%) | WordPress.com (0.6%) | Wix (2.2%) | Squarespace (5.3%) | Afternic (0.5%) | Sedo (0.2%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: interventionalalternativespineandwellness.org (41 chars)
- Shortest SLD: im9.org (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: glucopril.org
- Listed for sale: metaaidc.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 10, 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.