We discovered 348,838 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 335,201 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 498 gTLDs. This is 0.7% lower than yesterday’s Aug 18, 2026 total of 337,646.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.3 avg length | 75.7% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (94.9%) | 2-5 years (4.9%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (23.5%) | Vercel (0.8%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.2%) | Squarespace (2.7%) | Afternic (16.2%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (152,819), .xyz (59,479), .top (12,185).
- .com: 152,819
- .xyz: 59,479
- .top: 12,185
- .org: 9,281
- .online: 9,258
- .net: 9,045
- .site: 7,758
- .info: 5,475
- .store: 4,807
- .app: 4,489
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 152,819 domains
We discovered 152,819 .com domains in today’s report, a 1.8% decrease from yesterday’s 155,655. Of these, 142,858 were registered on Aug 18, 2026, 569 on Aug 17, 2026.
- Godaddy: 23,931 (15.7%)
- Namecheap: 16,456 (10.8%)
- Cloudflare: 11,357 (7.4%)
- Hostinger: 8,473 (5.5%)
- GMO Internet: 7,604 (5.0%)
- Squarespace: 7,578 (5.0%)
- Namesilo: 5,926 (3.9%)
- Spaceship: 5,917 (3.9%)
- Dynadot: 5,648 (3.7%)
- Tucows: 4,022 (2.6%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.8 avg length | 78.8% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (90.9%) | 2-5 years (8.8%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (23.3%) | Vercel (0.8%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (2.3%) | Squarespace (4.8%) | Afternic (1.0%) | Atom.com (0.3%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: aemibjgxrrxdvk5qypn0a1m35478laeasdasmxyxr9tljrxdd-yikjrxdd-sb.com (61 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 19qv.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: gwtrack.com
- Listed for sale: revivano.com
.xyz, 59,479 domains
We discovered 59,479 .xyz domains in today’s report, a 10.9% decrease from yesterday’s 66,752. Of these, 58,968 were registered on Aug 18, 2026, 33 on Aug 17, 2026.
- GMO Internet: 54,496 (91.6%)
- Dynadot: 864 (1.5%)
- Namecheap: 822 (1.4%)
- Godaddy: 752 (1.3%)
- Spaceship: 437 (0.7%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 9.8 avg length | 92.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.8%) | 2-5 years (0.1%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (7.4%) | Vercel (0.2%) | Afternic (87.3%) | Atom.com (0.1%)
TLD opportunity signal: Pure-alphabet share at 92.6% combined with 87.4% on resale platforms suggests this TLD may have promotional or market stimulus driving investment activity. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: configureuprootinginserversservicesd.xyz (36 chars)
- Shortest SLD: v4p.xyz (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: lumenzen.xyz
- Listed for sale: tryuniti.xyz
.top, 12,185 domains
We discovered 12,185 .top domains in today’s report, a 4.1% decrease from yesterday’s 12,702. Of these, 10,946 were registered on Aug 18, 2026, 38 on Aug 17, 2026.
- Spaceship: 2,692 (22.1%)
- Namesilo: 2,224 (18.3%)
- Alibaba cloud: 1,596 (13.1%)
- Dynadot: 1,581 (13.0%)
- Julyname: 1,026 (8.4%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 7.8 avg length | 33.2% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.1%) | 2-5 years (0.7%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (21.5%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 33.2% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: bukmekerskaya-kontora-leon-registratsiya-h6ui.top (45 chars)
- Shortest SLD: jo8.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: dietdiet.top
- Listed for sale: etre.top
.org, 9,281 domains
We discovered 9,281 .org domains in today’s report, a 4.7% increase from yesterday’s 8,865. Of these, 9,236 were registered on Aug 18, 2026, 5 on Aug 17, 2026.
- Namecheap: 1,530 (16.5%)
- Godaddy: 1,426 (15.4%)
- Spaceship: 803 (8.7%)
- Cloudflare: 776 (8.4%)
- Squarespace: 656 (7.1%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.2 avg length | 81.7% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.3%) | 2-5 years (8.1%) | >5 years (0.6%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (24.8%) | Vercel (0.5%) | WordPress.com (0.9%) | Wix (2.1%) | Squarespace (6.9%) | Afternic (5.2%) | Sedo (0.2%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: nehemiah-family-restoration-and-parent-education-of-sout.org (56 chars)
- Shortest SLD: d59.org (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: casinogday.org
- Listed for sale: galenic.org
.online, 9,258 domains
We discovered 9,258 .online domains in today’s report, a 5.0% increase from yesterday’s 8,820. Of these, 8,864 were registered on Aug 18, 2026, 18 on Aug 17, 2026.
- Namecheap: 2,086 (22.5%)
- Hostinger: 1,507 (16.3%)
- Godaddy: 981 (10.6%)
- Reg: 722 (7.8%)
- Publicdomainregistry: 336 (3.6%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.4 avg length | 76.4% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (98.2%) | 2-5 years (1.7%) | >5 years (0.0%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (24.6%) | Vercel (1.0%) | WordPress.com (0.4%) | Wix (0.5%) | Squarespace (0.1%) | Afternic (0.4%) | Sedo (0.6%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: erf8342vcbxcvm120zakrnnsdxaelrktj91384o6ujsdlkfbmnap9w8euh0jscx.online (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: m-q.online (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: ckut.online
- Listed for sale: viralt.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 19, 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.