We discovered 353,750 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 337,646 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 470 gTLDs. This is 29.8% higher than yesterday’s Aug 17, 2026 total of 260,045.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.1 avg length | 77.4% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (95.3%) | 2-5 years (4.5%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (22.7%) | Vercel (0.7%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (1.1%) | Squarespace (2.6%) | Afternic (18.9%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (155,655), .xyz (66,752), .top (12,702).
- .com: 155,655
- .xyz: 66,752
- .top: 12,702
- .org: 8,865
- .online: 8,820
- .site: 7,300
- .net: 6,190
- .info: 5,721
- .store: 5,075
- .app: 4,033
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 155,655 domains
We discovered 155,655 .com domains in today’s report, a 42.3% increase from yesterday’s 109,413. Of these, 143,156 were registered on Aug 17, 2026, 886 on Aug 16, 2026.
- Godaddy: 23,932 (15.4%)
- Namecheap: 16,734 (10.8%)
- Cloudflare: 10,980 (7.1%)
- GMO Internet: 8,357 (5.4%)
- Hostinger: 8,278 (5.3%)
- Squarespace: 7,601 (4.9%)
- Spaceship: 6,106 (3.9%)
- Dynadot: 5,455 (3.5%)
- Cosmotown: 4,454 (2.9%)
- Realtimeregister: 4,426 (2.8%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.5 avg length | 78.0% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.6%) | 2-5 years (8.1%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (23.8%) | Vercel (0.8%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (2.2%) | Squarespace (4.7%) | Afternic (1.1%) | Atom.com (0.3%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: digital-portfolio-working-with-children-families-and-com.com (56 chars)
- Shortest SLD: otv2.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: webbokeptv.com
- Listed for sale: fogsup.com
.xyz, 66,752 domains
We discovered 66,752 .xyz domains in today’s report, a 17.8% increase from yesterday’s 56,647. Of these, 66,113 were registered on Aug 17, 2026, 35 on Aug 16, 2026.
- GMO Internet: 61,531 (92.2%)
- Namecheap: 982 (1.5%)
- Godaddy: 767 (1.1%)
- Dynadot: 746 (1.1%)
- Alibaba cloud: 517 (0.8%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 9.6 avg length | 96.8% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.9%) | 2-5 years (0.1%) | >5 years (0.0%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (2.8%) | Vercel (0.1%) | Afternic (92.1%) | Atom.com (0.1%)
Single-investor signal: GMO Internet accounts for 92.2% of today’s registrations, combined with 92.2% on resale platforms, suggesting likely a single investor. Worth continued monitoring.
TLD opportunity signal: Pure-alphabet share at 96.8% combined with 92.2% on resale platforms suggests this TLD may have promotional or market stimulus driving investment activity. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: temdiasdificeismastenhoacertezaquedepoisdatempestadevembon.xyz (58 chars)
- Shortest SLD: c2u.xyz (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: wuyupay.xyz
- Listed for sale: sizedesk.xyz
.top, 12,702 domains
We discovered 12,702 .top domains in today’s report, a 28.1% decrease from yesterday’s 17,661. Of these, 12,597 were registered on Aug 17, 2026, 23 on Aug 16, 2026.
- Alibaba cloud: 4,062 (32.0%)
- Spaceship: 1,914 (15.1%)
- Namesilo: 1,910 (15.0%)
- Dynadot: 1,425 (11.2%)
- Gname: 881 (6.9%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 8.3 avg length | 26.3% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.3%) | 2-5 years (0.6%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (18.2%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 26.3% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: 9f8yr2p2ygjz2l092nj8tv4hcjv392amhex7pw5rzr.top (42 chars)
- Shortest SLD: wts.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: rpqsykin.top
- Listed for sale: celestial.top
.org, 8,865 domains
We discovered 8,865 .org domains in today’s report, a 47.0% increase from yesterday’s 6,029. Of these, 8,819 were registered on Aug 17, 2026, 2 on Aug 16, 2026.
- Namecheap: 1,526 (17.2%)
- Godaddy: 1,236 (13.9%)
- Cloudflare: 902 (10.2%)
- Dynadot: 887 (10.0%)
- Squarespace: 592 (6.7%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.3 avg length | 78.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (92.2%) | 2-5 years (7.3%) | >5 years (0.5%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (29.0%) | Vercel (0.6%) | WordPress.com (0.7%) | Wix (2.1%) | Squarespace (6.5%) | Afternic (0.3%) | Sedo (0.1%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: la-grande-coalition-citoyenne-pour-le-senegal-guiss-si-sabop.org (60 chars)
- Shortest SLD: ti6.org (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: sctssa.org
- Listed for sale: booknest.org
.online, 8,820 domains
We discovered 8,820 .online domains in today’s report, a 52.0% increase from yesterday’s 5,802. Of these, 8,500 were registered on Aug 17, 2026, 4 on Aug 16, 2026.
- Namecheap: 2,261 (25.6%)
- Hostinger: 1,398 (15.9%)
- Godaddy: 896 (10.2%)
- Reg: 654 (7.4%)
- Publicdomainregistry: 366 (4.1%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.7 avg length | 79.5% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (98.0%) | 2-5 years (1.9%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (25.1%) | Vercel (0.9%) | WordPress.com (0.4%) | Wix (0.3%) | Squarespace (0.1%) | Afternic (0.2%) | Sedo (0.3%)
Burst signal: 52.0% day-over-day increase. With 25.1% on Cloudflare DNS, more of these domains appear directed toward end-user use than resale.
Examples
- Longest SLD: erf8342vcbxcvrn120zakmnsdxaeirktj9138406ujsdlkfbmnap9w8euhojscx.online (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 3dn.online (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: derenabka.online
- Listed for sale: boldline.online
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 18, 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.