We discovered 211,041 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 189,094 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 465 gTLDs. This is 10.8% lower than yesterday’s Aug 23, 2026 total of 212,092.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.0 avg length | 70.3% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (94.7%) | 2-5 years (5.1%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (27.3%) | Vercel (1.1%) | WordPress.com (0.4%) | Wix (1.6%) | Squarespace (3.0%) | Afternic (0.6%) | Sedo (0.2%) | Atom.com (0.4%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (99,739), .top (11,330), .online (6,516).
- .com: 99,739
- .top: 11,330
- .online: 6,516
- .net: 6,452
- .app: 6,072
- .org: 5,857
- .site: 4,821
- .xyz: 4,403
- .store: 3,780
- .vip: 2,790
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 99,739 domains
We discovered 99,739 .com domains in today’s report, a 2.6% decrease from yesterday’s 102,405. Of these, 98,498 were registered on Aug 23, 2026, 793 on Aug 22, 2026.
- Godaddy: 15,705 (15.7%)
- Namecheap: 10,798 (10.8%)
- Cloudflare: 8,085 (8.1%)
- GMO Internet: 6,052 (6.1%)
- Hostinger: 5,742 (5.8%)
- Squarespace: 4,693 (4.7%)
- Namesilo: 4,306 (4.3%)
- Spaceship: 4,103 (4.1%)
- Dynadot: 3,455 (3.5%)
- Namebright: 2,452 (2.5%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.1 avg length | 76.5% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (92.0%) | 2-5 years (7.7%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (24.9%) | Vercel (1.1%) | WordPress.com (0.4%) | Wix (2.5%) | Squarespace (4.5%) | Afternic (0.9%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: 3bbfd379246e6266315233532fc411d3924da1654415243cc3171e9f75d2d12.com (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: kw10.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: thinksaf.com
- Listed for sale: skillfood.com
.top, 11,330 domains
We discovered 11,330 .top domains in today’s report, a 34.9% decrease from yesterday’s 17,394. Of these, 11,217 were registered on Aug 23, 2026, 13 on Aug 22, 2026.
- Alibaba cloud: 3,399 (30.0%)
- Godaddy: 1,863 (16.4%)
- Spaceship: 1,578 (13.9%)
- Dynadot: 1,201 (10.6%)
- Namesilo: 945 (8.3%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 7.6 avg length | 18.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.3%) | 2-5 years (0.6%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (15.4%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 18.6% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: js555-5-ertryb4t-1ee3rypt-osf31n-431167878a-b08554045756bvervie.top (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: v6.top (2 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: johnton.top
- Listed for sale: gohealth.top
.online, 6,516 domains
We discovered 6,516 .online domains in today’s report, a 0.2% decrease from yesterday’s 6,532. Of these, 6,212 were registered on Aug 23, 2026, 3 on Aug 22, 2026.
- Namecheap: 1,591 (24.4%)
- Hostinger: 1,011 (15.5%)
- Godaddy: 672 (10.3%)
- Reg: 511 (7.8%)
- Spaceship: 294 (4.5%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.4 avg length | 77.3% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (98.3%) | 2-5 years (1.6%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (21.6%) | Vercel (1.3%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.2%) | Squarespace (0.1%) | Afternic (0.3%) | Sedo (0.8%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: reading-to-write-sample-three-week-unit-of-work-for-n.online (53 chars)
- Shortest SLD: hj2.online (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: sazeit.online
- Listed for sale: growthbox.online
.net, 6,452 domains
We discovered 6,452 .net domains in today’s report, a 28.6% decrease from yesterday’s 9,035. Of these, 395 were registered on Aug 23, 2026, 6,030 on Aug 22, 2026.
- Godaddy: 1,046 (16.2%)
- Cloudflare: 578 (9.0%)
- Namecheap: 558 (8.6%)
- Dynadot: 503 (7.8%)
- Namesilo: 426 (6.6%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 10.6 avg length | 73.5% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (93.3%) | 2-5 years (6.4%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (23.6%) | Vercel (0.3%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (2.6%) | Squarespace (4.4%) | Afternic (0.3%) | Sedo (0.1%)
Anomaly signal: Only 395 domains registered on Aug 23, 2026 appears in today’s sample, compared with 6,030 from Aug 22, 2026. This indicates a delay in zone file updates from the registry, not an actual drop in registrations.
Examples
- Longest SLD: instituteofsequencedfunctionalmedicine.net (38 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 84w.net (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: besouros.net
- Listed for sale: zolwix.net
.app, 6,072 domains
We discovered 6,072 .app domains in today’s report. Of these, 1,933 were registered on Aug 23, 2026, 2,957 on Aug 22, 2026.
- Cloudflare: 1,279 (21.1%)
- Name: 850 (14.0%)
- Dynadot: 713 (11.7%)
- Namecheap: 697 (11.5%)
- Godaddy: 681 (11.2%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 8.5 avg length | 81.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (96.1%) | 2-5 years (3.9%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (34.0%) | Vercel (4.5%) | Wix (0.9%) | Squarespace (1.8%) | Afternic (0.3%) | Sedo (0.1%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: sidehustlecompletemonetizationpackage.app (37 chars)
- Shortest SLD: d4.app (2 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: rndnexus.app
- Listed for sale: thearchive.app
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 24, 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.