We discovered 356,559 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 336,489 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 479 gTLDs. This is 4.6% lower than yesterday’s Aug 12, 2026 total of 352,537.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.6 avg length | 74.7% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (95.0%) | 2-5 years (4.7%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (23.6%) | Vercel (0.7%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.2%) | Squarespace (2.8%) | Afternic (16.2%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.4%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (150,673), .xyz (60,367), .top (17,458).
- .com: 150,673
- .xyz: 60,367
- .top: 17,458
- .net: 10,100
- .org: 9,478
- .online: 8,784
- .site: 6,296
- .biz: 5,262
- .info: 5,028
- .store: 4,886
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 150,673 domains
We discovered 150,673 .com domains in today’s report, a 0.9% decrease from yesterday’s 151,979. Of these, 137,966 were registered on Aug 12, 2026, 788 on Aug 11, 2026.
- Godaddy: 25,272 (16.8%)
- Namecheap: 17,173 (11.4%)
- Cloudflare: 11,304 (7.5%)
- Hostinger: 8,291 (5.5%)
- Squarespace: 7,726 (5.1%)
- Dynadot: 5,624 (3.7%)
- Spaceship: 5,587 (3.7%)
- Publicdomainregistry: 4,680 (3.1%)
- Realtimeregister: 4,399 (2.9%)
- Tucows: 4,056 (2.7%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.5 avg length | 77.7% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (90.9%) | 2-5 years (8.8%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (24.3%) | Vercel (0.8%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (2.2%) | Squarespace (5.0%) | Afternic (0.8%) | Atom.com (0.6%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: domain-verification4b9e2f7c2cddbc7f1ee6867f191d1143348ef7b2.com (59 chars)
- Shortest SLD: d88n.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: getadbrief.com
- Listed for sale: ficnest.com
.xyz, 60,367 domains
We discovered 60,367 .xyz domains in today’s report, a 10.7% decrease from yesterday’s 67,578. Of these, 59,691 were registered on Aug 12, 2026, 647 on Aug 11, 2026.
- GMO Internet: 52,996 (87.8%)
- Dynadot: 2,900 (4.8%)
- Namecheap: 1,192 (2.0%)
- Godaddy: 888 (1.5%)
- Namesilo: 315 (0.5%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.1 avg length | 93.4% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.8%) | 2-5 years (0.1%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (6.9%) | Vercel (0.1%) | Afternic (87.8%) | Atom.com (0.6%)
TLD opportunity signal: Pure-alphabet share at 93.4% 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: facebook-domain-verificationm5spcgbqvclffh0cx4u4p8ywebu4u1.xyz (58 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 5d.xyz (2 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: kwpoxbh.xyz
- Listed for sale: getphae.xyz
.top, 17,458 domains
We discovered 17,458 .top domains in today’s report, a 34.3% increase from yesterday’s 13,004. Of these, 17,400 were registered on Aug 12, 2026, 32 on Aug 11, 2026.
- Alibaba cloud: 8,014 (45.9%)
- Spaceship: 2,029 (11.6%)
- Dynadot: 1,914 (11.0%)
- Namesilo: 1,829 (10.5%)
- Todaynic: 723 (4.1%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 8.4 avg length | 21.7% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.3%) | 2-5 years (0.5%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (17.6%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 21.7% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: xn—–1-53dbbc9abbdvrauilie3anijbf6byaskw6czdul.top (48 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 4lu.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: ravelixa.top
.net, 10,100 domains
We discovered 10,100 .net domains in today’s report, a 11.7% increase from yesterday’s 9,041. Of these, 494 were registered on Aug 12, 2026, 9,564 on Aug 11, 2026.
- Dynadot: 1,797 (17.8%)
- Godaddy: 1,610 (15.9%)
- Namecheap: 823 (8.1%)
- Cloudflare: 689 (6.8%)
- Squarespace: 497 (4.9%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 10.7 avg length | 66.8% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (92.2%) | 2-5 years (7.2%) | >5 years (0.6%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (31.2%) | Vercel (0.3%) | WordPress.com (0.1%) | Wix (2.5%) | Squarespace (4.7%) | Afternic (0.1%)
Anomaly signal: Only 494 domains registered on Aug 12, 2026 appears in today’s sample, compared with 9,564 from Aug 11, 2026. This indicates a delay in zone file updates from the registry, not an actual drop in registrations.
Examples
- Longest SLD: avoidandreverseskinmummificationwhilestillalive.net (47 chars)
- Shortest SLD: u1e.net (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: grandivyuk.net
- Listed for sale: aiusage.net
.org, 9,478 domains
We discovered 9,478 .org domains in today’s report, a 2.1% increase from yesterday’s 9,287. Of these, 9,403 were registered on Aug 12, 2026, 17 on Aug 11, 2026.
- Namecheap: 1,350 (14.2%)
- Godaddy: 1,322 (13.9%)
- Dynadot: 1,244 (13.1%)
- Cloudflare: 762 (8.0%)
- Squarespace: 673 (7.1%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.5 avg length | 78.4% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (92.4%) | 2-5 years (7.0%) | >5 years (0.6%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (27.0%) | Vercel (0.8%) | WordPress.com (0.8%) | Wix (2.0%) | Squarespace (6.8%) | Afternic (0.5%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: premiumfashioncollectiondesmoneyclothingfootwearacces.org (53 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 3xs.org (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: phenomsoft.org
- Listed for sale: mariya.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 13, 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.