We discovered 328,596 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 306,231 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 478 gTLDs. This is 9.0% lower than yesterday’s Aug 13, 2026 total of 336,489.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.6 avg length | 75.8% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (94.8%) | 2-5 years (5.0%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (23.4%) | Vercel (0.7%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (1.2%) | Squarespace (3.0%) | Afternic (17.0%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.5%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (136,538), .xyz (56,597), .top (12,396).
- .com: 136,538
- .xyz: 56,597
- .top: 12,396
- .org: 9,160
- .net: 8,532
- .online: 8,424
- .info: 6,152
- .site: 5,471
- .store: 4,397
- .asia: 4,193
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 136,538 domains
We discovered 136,538 .com domains in today’s report, a 9.4% decrease from yesterday’s 150,673. Of these, 126,385 were registered on Aug 13, 2026, 179 on Aug 12, 2026.
- Godaddy: 23,553 (17.3%)
- Cloudflare: 11,548 (8.5%)
- Namecheap: 9,459 (6.9%)
- Hostinger: 8,165 (6.0%)
- Squarespace: 7,724 (5.7%)
- Spaceship: 5,035 (3.7%)
- Dynadot: 4,674 (3.4%)
- Tucows: 4,109 (3.0%)
- Alibaba cloud: 4,029 (3.0%)
- GMO Internet: 3,946 (2.9%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.7 avg length | 77.7% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (90.5%) | 2-5 years (9.1%) | >5 years (0.4%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (25.1%) | Vercel (0.9%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (2.4%) | Squarespace (5.5%) | Afternic (1.0%) | Atom.com (0.5%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: dwhci9axergmeylfku06x43zma5edlvy7nlt7d1xsdv54lztokfcmpbmidpaxrw.com (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: gc84.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: fwdquick.com
- Listed for sale: intramalo.com
.xyz, 56,597 domains
We discovered 56,597 .xyz domains in today’s report, a 6.2% decrease from yesterday’s 60,367. Of these, 56,420 were registered on Aug 13, 2026, 149 on Aug 12, 2026.
- GMO Internet: 50,671 (89.5%)
- Namecheap: 1,236 (2.2%)
- Godaddy: 1,199 (2.1%)
- Dynadot: 1,031 (1.8%)
- Spaceship: 389 (0.7%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.0 avg length | 96.0% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.9%) | 2-5 years (0.1%) | >5 years (0.0%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (3.2%) | Vercel (0.1%) | Afternic (89.3%) | Atom.com (1.1%)
Single-investor signal: GMO Internet accounts for 89.5% of today’s registrations, combined with 90.4% on resale platforms, suggesting likely a single investor. Worth continued monitoring.
TLD opportunity signal: Pure-alphabet share at 96.0% combined with 90.4% on resale platforms suggests this TLD may have promotional or market stimulus driving investment activity. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: yuanyangxianxinqishunyaoxinxizixunyouxiangongsi.xyz (47 chars)
- Shortest SLD: h00.xyz (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: bingqilin.xyz
- Listed for sale: easyukvisa.xyz
.top, 12,396 domains
We discovered 12,396 .top domains in today’s report, a 29.0% decrease from yesterday’s 17,458. Of these, 12,329 were registered on Aug 13, 2026, 36 on Aug 12, 2026.
- Alibaba cloud: 4,092 (33.0%)
- Spaceship: 1,824 (14.7%)
- Dynadot: 1,206 (9.7%)
- Namesilo: 1,167 (9.4%)
- West.cn: 957 (7.7%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 8.0 avg length | 24.2% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.0%) | 2-5 years (0.8%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (19.4%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 24.2% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: djklfghdfigho3i4g68934g7534985g34lks83945s345.top (45 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 5wt.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: indexfever.top
.org, 9,160 domains
We discovered 9,160 .org domains in today’s report, a 3.4% decrease from yesterday’s 9,478. Of these, 9,106 were registered on Aug 13, 2026, 0 on Aug 12, 2026.
- Dynadot: 1,465 (16.0%)
- Godaddy: 1,421 (15.5%)
- Cloudflare: 884 (9.7%)
- Namecheap: 781 (8.5%)
- Squarespace: 680 (7.4%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.2 avg length | 75.3% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (92.1%) | 2-5 years (7.3%) | >5 years (0.6%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (31.1%) | Vercel (0.6%) | WordPress.com (0.7%) | Wix (2.1%) | Squarespace (7.1%) | Afternic (0.4%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: docunamrimentonlinesgn-varlidatctionsarvinces.org (45 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 9ku.org (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: atasav.org
- Listed for sale: sbio.org
.net, 8,532 domains
We discovered 8,532 .net domains in today’s report, a 15.5% decrease from yesterday’s 10,100. Of these, 553 were registered on Aug 13, 2026, 7,912 on Aug 12, 2026.
- Godaddy: 1,521 (17.8%)
- Namecheap: 816 (9.6%)
- Cloudflare: 722 (8.5%)
- Dynadot: 716 (8.4%)
- Squarespace: 488 (5.7%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.2 avg length | 74.2% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.2%) | 2-5 years (8.2%) | >5 years (0.6%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (26.4%) | Vercel (0.5%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (2.4%) | Squarespace (5.5%) | Afternic (0.2%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
Anomaly signal: Only 553 domains registered on Aug 13, 2026 appears in today’s sample, compared with 7,912 from Aug 12, 2026. This indicates a delay in zone file updates from the registry, not an actual drop in registrations.
Examples
- Longest SLD: facebook-domain-verificationm5spcgbqvclffh0cx4u4p8ywebu4u1.net (58 chars)
- Shortest SLD: u1q.net (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: nexvivo.net
- Listed for sale: zorix.net
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 14, 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.