We discovered 281,841 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 260,045 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 464 gTLDs. This is 4.5% lower than yesterday’s Aug 16, 2026 total of 272,156.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 10.5 avg length | 74.3% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (95.7%) | 2-5 years (4.1%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (20.0%) | Vercel (0.8%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.1%) | Squarespace (2.3%) | Afternic (20.8%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.3%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (109,413), .xyz (56,647), .top (17,661).
- .com: 109,413
- .xyz: 56,647
- .top: 17,661
- .net: 8,303
- .org: 6,029
- .online: 5,802
- .site: 4,745
- .info: 4,561
- .app: 4,281
- .store: 3,979
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 109,413 domains
We discovered 109,413 .com domains in today’s report, a 1.9% decrease from yesterday’s 111,576. Of these, 100,893 were registered on Aug 16, 2026, 130 on Aug 15, 2026.
- Godaddy: 17,622 (16.1%)
- Namecheap: 10,886 (9.9%)
- Cloudflare: 8,689 (7.9%)
- GMO Internet: 7,535 (6.9%)
- Hostinger: 5,989 (5.5%)
- Squarespace: 5,064 (4.6%)
- Realtimeregister: 4,240 (3.9%)
- Spaceship: 3,468 (3.2%)
- Namebright: 3,070 (2.8%)
- Tucows: 3,034 (2.8%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.1 avg length | 77.8% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.6%) | 2-5 years (8.1%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (25.0%) | Vercel (1.0%) | WordPress.com (0.4%) | Wix (2.3%) | Squarespace (4.5%) | Afternic (1.0%) | Atom.com (0.5%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: certification-construction-materials-testing-exam.com (49 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 4i88.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: cuankuyapk.com
- Listed for sale: edgevoyage.com
.xyz, 56,647 domains
We discovered 56,647 .xyz domains in today’s report, a 2.2% increase from yesterday’s 55,420. Of these, 55,301 were registered on Aug 16, 2026, 23 on Aug 15, 2026.
- GMO Internet: 52,849 (93.3%)
- Namecheap: 702 (1.2%)
- Dynadot: 684 (1.2%)
- Godaddy: 545 (1.0%)
- Spaceship: 245 (0.4%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 9.1 avg length | 96.5% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.9%) | 2-5 years (0.1%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (2.4%) | Vercel (0.1%) | Afternic (92.6%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
Single-investor signal: GMO Internet accounts for 93.3% of today’s registrations, combined with 92.8% on resale platforms, suggesting likely a single investor. Worth continued monitoring.
TLD opportunity signal: Pure-alphabet share at 96.5% combined with 92.8% on resale platforms suggests this TLD may have promotional or market stimulus driving investment activity. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: lkjhgfdfghjklkjhgfddfghjklkjhgfdsdfghjklkjhgfdfghjk.xyz (51 chars)
- Shortest SLD: oo0.xyz (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: sandustry.xyz
- Listed for sale: leaffarms.xyz
.top, 17,661 domains
We discovered 17,661 .top domains in today’s report, a 2.3% decrease from yesterday’s 18,074. Of these, 17,597 were registered on Aug 16, 2026, 17 on Aug 15, 2026.
- namemart pte. ltd.: 6,244 (35.4%)
- Alibaba cloud: 3,855 (21.8%)
- Dynadot: 2,309 (13.1%)
- Spaceship: 1,649 (9.3%)
- Namesilo: 919 (5.2%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 6.7 avg length | 20.4% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.6%) | 2-5 years (0.3%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (10.1%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 20.4% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: xn--vhqrb84br6iwzb15ax33cpknq9mx9kp5fsr0auj2c.top (45 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 2w6.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: jaway.top
- Listed for sale: waypoint.top
.net, 8,303 domains
We discovered 8,303 .net domains in today’s report, a 13.4% decrease from yesterday’s 9,586. Of these, 383 were registered on Aug 16, 2026, 7,896 on Aug 15, 2026.
- Dynadot: 2,359 (28.4%)
- Godaddy: 917 (11.0%)
- Cloudflare: 584 (7.0%)
- Namecheap: 563 (6.8%)
- Ionos: 461 (5.6%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 10.0 avg length | 63.9% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (94.8%) | 2-5 years (5.0%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (22.9%) | Vercel (0.3%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (1.4%) | Squarespace (3.4%) | Afternic (0.2%) | Atom.com (0.1%)
Anomaly signal: Only 383 domains registered on Aug 16, 2026 appears in today’s sample, compared with 7,896 from Aug 15, 2026. This indicates a delay in zone file updates from the registry, not an actual drop in registrations.
Examples
- Longest SLD: tradingandinvestingexplainedasifyouwereafiveyearold.net (51 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 9yo.net (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: visolute.net
- Listed for sale: annualized.net
.org, 6,029 domains
We discovered 6,029 .org domains in today’s report, a 15.7% decrease from yesterday’s 7,156. Of these, 5,962 were registered on Aug 16, 2026, 13 on Aug 15, 2026.
- Namecheap: 1,021 (16.9%)
- Godaddy: 899 (14.9%)
- Cloudflare: 670 (11.1%)
- Dynadot: 474 (7.9%)
- Squarespace: 412 (6.8%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.1 avg length | 80.2% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (92.6%) | 2-5 years (6.9%) | >5 years (0.4%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (25.3%) | Vercel (0.9%) | WordPress.com (0.8%) | Wix (2.7%) | Squarespace (6.6%) | Afternic (0.6%) | Sedo (0.1%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: orderofclericsregularofsomascaseap-motheroforphans.org (50 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 1bz.org (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: patchesbay.org
- Listed for sale: finedb.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 17, 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.