We discovered 296,284 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 272,156 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 460 gTLDs. This is 16.9% lower than yesterday’s Aug 15, 2026 total of 327,334.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 10.3 avg length | 73.1% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (95.9%) | 2-5 years (3.9%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (20.9%) | Vercel (0.7%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.0%) | Squarespace (2.2%) | Afternic (19.0%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.5%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (111,576), .xyz (55,420), .top (18,074).
- .com: 111,576
- .xyz: 55,420
- .top: 18,074
- .net: 9,586
- .org: 7,156
- .online: 6,249
- .site: 5,403
- .store: 4,210
- .asia: 3,849
- .vip: 3,278
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 111,576 domains
We discovered 111,576 .com domains in today’s report, a 22.4% decrease from yesterday’s 143,738. Of these, 104,455 were registered on Aug 15, 2026, 761 on Aug 14, 2026.
- Godaddy: 17,479 (15.7%)
- Namecheap: 11,580 (10.4%)
- Cloudflare: 8,676 (7.8%)
- Hostinger: 6,099 (5.5%)
- Dynadot: 5,499 (4.9%)
- GMO Internet: 5,109 (4.6%)
- Squarespace: 4,865 (4.4%)
- Namesilo: 4,402 (3.9%)
- Spaceship: 3,830 (3.4%)
- Realtimeregister: 3,576 (3.2%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.0 avg length | 76.4% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (92.1%) | 2-5 years (7.6%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (27.2%) | Vercel (0.9%) | WordPress.com (0.4%) | Wix (2.1%) | Squarespace (4.2%) | Afternic (1.1%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.3%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: 676767676767676767676767676767676767676767676767676767676767sol.com (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: dbe8.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: bubbasonia.com
- Listed for sale: centromuse.com
.xyz, 55,420 domains
We discovered 55,420 .xyz domains in today’s report, a 11.8% decrease from yesterday’s 62,842. Of these, 55,127 were registered on Aug 15, 2026, 30 on Aug 14, 2026.
- GMO Internet: 50,298 (90.8%)
- Dynadot: 1,286 (2.3%)
- Godaddy: 1,134 (2.0%)
- Namecheap: 597 (1.1%)
- Name: 310 (0.6%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 8.6 avg length | 96.2% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.8%) | 2-5 years (0.1%) | >5 years (0.0%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (3.5%) | Vercel (0.1%) | Afternic (90.6%) | Atom.com (1.4%)
Single-investor signal: GMO Internet accounts for 90.8% of today’s registrations, combined with 92.0% on resale platforms, suggesting likely a single investor. Worth continued monitoring.
TLD opportunity signal: Pure-alphabet share at 96.2% combined with 92.0% on resale platforms suggests this TLD may have promotional or market stimulus driving investment activity. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: cnic-probe-aws-eu-frankfurt-live-1786838701.xyz (43 chars)
- Shortest SLD: c4.xyz (2 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: evobrain.xyz
- Listed for sale: payscanner.xyz
.top, 18,074 domains
We discovered 18,074 .top domains in today’s report, a 49.0% increase from yesterday’s 12,129. Of these, 18,026 were registered on Aug 15, 2026, 12 on Aug 14, 2026.
- Alibaba cloud: 7,278 (40.3%)
- Dynadot: 4,008 (22.2%)
- Spaceship: 1,677 (9.3%)
- namemart pte. ltd.: 1,225 (6.8%)
- Gname: 983 (5.4%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 7.2 avg length | 25.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.5%) | 2-5 years (0.4%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (8.9%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 25.6% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: jknzu02-vjiosj2-vosni823jvsp-jfdsij29-fsdfe.top (43 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 7mk.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: chonko.top
- Listed for sale: phyai.top
.net, 9,586 domains
We discovered 9,586 .net domains in today’s report, a 8.7% increase from yesterday’s 8,818. Of these, 455 were registered on Aug 15, 2026, 9,094 on Aug 14, 2026.
- Godaddy: 1,407 (14.7%)
- Dynadot: 1,317 (13.7%)
- Namecheap: 932 (9.7%)
- Cloudflare: 689 (7.2%)
- Namesilo: 643 (6.7%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 10.9 avg length | 71.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (92.7%) | 2-5 years (6.8%) | >5 years (0.5%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (29.3%) | Vercel (0.3%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (1.8%) | Squarespace (4.4%) | Afternic (0.1%)
Anomaly signal: Only 455 domains registered on Aug 15, 2026 appears in today’s sample, compared with 9,094 from Aug 14, 2026. This indicates a delay in zone file updates from the registry, not an actual drop in registrations.
Examples
- Longest SLD: nationalcoalitionofwomenofcolorinconstruction.net (45 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 1yv.net (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: outsidaz.net
- Listed for sale: claimsync.net
.org, 7,156 domains
We discovered 7,156 .org domains in today’s report, a 28.0% decrease from yesterday’s 9,944. Of these, 7,122 were registered on Aug 15, 2026, 1 on Aug 14, 2026.
- Dynadot: 1,179 (16.5%)
- Namecheap: 1,087 (15.2%)
- Godaddy: 897 (12.5%)
- Cloudflare: 680 (9.5%)
- Squarespace: 439 (6.1%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.6 avg length | 73.5% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (93.6%) | 2-5 years (6.0%) | >5 years (0.4%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (25.9%) | Vercel (0.6%) | WordPress.com (0.7%) | Wix (1.9%) | Squarespace (6.0%) | Afternic (0.3%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: sacaramentovalleyfeversurvivorsawareness.org (40 chars)
- Shortest SLD: m6e.org (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: grimbit.org
- Listed for sale: abluka.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 16, 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.