We discovered 346,255 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 327,334 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 488 gTLDs. This is 6.9% higher than yesterday’s Aug 14, 2026 total of 306,231.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.4 avg length | 74.3% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (95.3%) | 2-5 years (4.5%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (23.3%) | Vercel (0.7%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (1.0%) | Squarespace (2.5%) | Afternic (16.2%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.5%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (143,738), .xyz (62,842), .top (12,129).
- .com: 143,738
- .xyz: 62,842
- .top: 12,129
- .org: 9,944
- .net: 8,818
- .online: 8,300
- .site: 6,624
- .store: 5,172
- .vip: 5,051
- .app: 4,356
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 143,738 domains
We discovered 143,738 .com domains in today’s report, a 5.3% increase from yesterday’s 136,538. Of these, 134,851 were registered on Aug 14, 2026, 769 on Aug 13, 2026.
- Godaddy: 22,554 (15.7%)
- Namecheap: 17,744 (12.3%)
- Cloudflare: 10,877 (7.6%)
- Hostinger: 7,155 (5.0%)
- Squarespace: 6,629 (4.6%)
- Spaceship: 5,564 (3.9%)
- Dynadot: 4,780 (3.3%)
- Namesilo: 4,450 (3.1%)
- Realtimeregister: 4,290 (3.0%)
- GMO Internet: 4,162 (2.9%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.5 avg length | 77.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.3%) | 2-5 years (8.4%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (25.4%) | Vercel (0.8%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (2.0%) | Squarespace (4.5%) | Afternic (0.8%) | Atom.com (0.6%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: aemibjgxrrxdvk5qypn0a1m35478laemibjgmxyxr9tljrxdd-yikjrxdd-yik.com (62 chars)
- Shortest SLD: gg-5.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: buamgpv.com
- Listed for sale: canweuse.com
.xyz, 62,842 domains
We discovered 62,842 .xyz domains in today’s report, a 11.0% increase from yesterday’s 56,597. Of these, 61,820 were registered on Aug 14, 2026, 242 on Aug 13, 2026.
- GMO Internet: 56,760 (90.3%)
- Godaddy: 1,475 (2.3%)
- Dynadot: 993 (1.6%)
- Namecheap: 882 (1.4%)
- Name: 371 (0.6%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.6 avg length | 92.4% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.8%) | 2-5 years (0.1%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (3.7%) | Vercel (0.1%) | Afternic (82.0%) | Atom.com (1.2%)
TLD opportunity signal: Pure-alphabet share at 92.4% combined with 83.2% on resale platforms suggests this TLD may have promotional or market stimulus driving investment activity. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: xn—-vb6eh6nxjp4rxuc10fqqrk0ie2hgk1a52dhsc.xyz (43 chars)
- Shortest SLD: mg4.xyz (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: avfddj.xyz
- Listed for sale: wenstakes.xyz
.top, 12,129 domains
We discovered 12,129 .top domains in today’s report, a 2.2% decrease from yesterday’s 12,396. Of these, 12,048 were registered on Aug 14, 2026, 41 on Aug 13, 2026.
- Alibaba cloud: 3,979 (32.8%)
- Spaceship: 1,813 (14.9%)
- Namesilo: 1,592 (13.1%)
- Dynadot: 1,443 (11.9%)
- todaynic com inc: 676 (5.6%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 8.4 avg length | 28.4% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.2%) | 2-5 years (0.7%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (22.4%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 28.4% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: dh6283-jus6027vfd-3jui7fd0-3nuijf7sd2.top (37 chars)
- Shortest SLD: k0s.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: ailabway.top
.org, 9,944 domains
We discovered 9,944 .org domains in today’s report, a 8.6% increase from yesterday’s 9,160. Of these, 9,908 were registered on Aug 14, 2026, 4 on Aug 13, 2026.
- Namecheap: 1,402 (14.1%)
- Dynadot: 1,324 (13.3%)
- Godaddy: 1,267 (12.7%)
- Cloudflare: 798 (8.0%)
- Squarespace: 623 (6.3%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.8 avg length | 76.1% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (92.6%) | 2-5 years (6.9%) | >5 years (0.5%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (24.4%) | Vercel (0.5%) | WordPress.com (0.7%) | Wix (1.7%) | Squarespace (6.0%) | Afternic (0.5%) | Sedo (0.1%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: docuinmentlnonlrline-sharingsignzification.org (42 chars)
- Shortest SLD: b0z.org (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: locallynet.org
- Listed for sale: softwarex.org
.net, 8,818 domains
We discovered 8,818 .net domains in today’s report, a 3.4% increase from yesterday’s 8,532. Of these, 442 were registered on Aug 14, 2026, 8,328 on Aug 13, 2026.
- Godaddy: 1,486 (16.9%)
- Dynadot: 827 (9.4%)
- Cloudflare: 743 (8.4%)
- Namecheap: 566 (6.4%)
- Squarespace: 499 (5.7%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.0 avg length | 71.8% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.8%) | 2-5 years (7.7%) | >5 years (0.5%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (28.9%) | Vercel (0.4%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (2.6%) | Squarespace (5.5%) | Afternic (0.2%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
Anomaly signal: Only 442 domains registered on Aug 14, 2026 appears in today’s sample, compared with 8,328 from Aug 13, 2026. This indicates a delay in zone file updates from the registry, not an actual drop in registrations.
Examples
- Longest SLD: bgibsonconsultationandpsychotherapyllc.net (38 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 75p.net (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: rarecase.net
- Listed for sale: legaljoint.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 15, 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.