We discovered 526,888 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 498,743 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 511 gTLDs. This is 6.3% lower than yesterday’s Aug 26, 2026 total of 532,234.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.7 avg length | 71.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (93.7%) | 2-5 years (6.1%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (25.9%) | Vercel (0.9%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.7%) | Squarespace (3.5%) | Afternic (0.7%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (314,816), .top (18,148), .online (17,868).
- .com: 314,816
- .top: 18,148
- .online: 17,868
- .site: 12,576
- .net: 9,820
- .org: 9,400
- .store: 9,051
- .app: 8,107
- .click: 7,679
- .vip: 5,920
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 314,816 domains
We discovered 314,816 .com domains in today’s report, a 0.4% increase from yesterday’s 313,686. Of these, 146,932 were registered on Aug 26, 2026, 165,120 on Aug 25, 2026.
- Godaddy: 46,729 (14.8%)
- Namecheap: 34,313 (10.9%)
- Cloudflare: 22,813 (7.2%)
- Hostinger: 18,188 (5.8%)
- Tucows: 17,762 (5.6%)
- Squarespace: 16,049 (5.1%)
- Spaceship: 11,990 (3.8%)
- Alibaba cloud: 11,042 (3.5%)
- Dynadot: 9,764 (3.1%)
- Namesilo: 8,164 (2.6%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.6 avg length | 77.1% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.2%) | 2-5 years (8.5%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (23.3%) | Vercel (0.8%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (2.4%) | Squarespace (4.9%) | Afternic (1.0%) | Atom.com (0.3%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: in-his-house-at-rlyeh-dead-cthulhu-waits-dreaming-below-the-sea.com (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: x3x1.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: zzchenlu.com
- Listed for sale: jlhjj.com
.top, 18,148 domains
We discovered 18,148 .top domains in today’s report, a 41.1% decrease from yesterday’s 30,813. Of these, 18,074 were registered on Aug 26, 2026, 19 on Aug 25, 2026.
- namemart pte. ltd.: 6,072 (33.5%)
- Alibaba cloud: 3,900 (21.5%)
- Dynadot: 2,130 (11.7%)
- Spaceship: 1,813 (10.0%)
- Namesilo: 1,654 (9.1%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 7.3 avg length | 21.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.4%) | 2-5 years (0.5%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (12.6%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 21.6% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: 9ufdlebqum22p8dq4e4jb8a9ztaas2assdaw.top (36 chars)
- Shortest SLD: s41.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: lunarise.top
- Listed for sale: roadmap.top
.online, 17,868 domains
We discovered 17,868 .online domains in today’s report, a 5.3% decrease from yesterday’s 18,867. Of these, 8,905 were registered on Aug 26, 2026, 8,458 on Aug 25, 2026.
- Namecheap: 4,377 (24.5%)
- Hostinger: 2,801 (15.7%)
- Godaddy: 1,868 (10.5%)
- Reg: 1,388 (7.8%)
- Publicdomainregistry: 1,086 (6.1%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.7 avg length | 78.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (98.6%) | 2-5 years (1.3%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (25.7%) | Vercel (0.9%) | WordPress.com (0.1%) | Wix (0.9%) | Squarespace (0.1%) | Afternic (0.3%) | Sedo (0.2%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: das-deutsche-volk-bekennt-sich-zu-den-menschenrechten.online (53 chars)
- Shortest SLD: vl1.online (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: kaskdjad.online
- Listed for sale: easyspot.online
.site, 12,576 domains
We discovered 12,576 .site domains in today’s report, a 10.3% decrease from yesterday’s 14,020. Of these, 6,585 were registered on Aug 26, 2026, 5,785 on Aug 25, 2026.
- Namecheap: 5,747 (45.7%)
- Hostinger: 1,319 (10.5%)
- Godaddy: 1,024 (8.1%)
- Spaceship: 823 (6.5%)
- Dynadot: 442 (3.5%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.6 avg length | 63.7% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.2%) | 2-5 years (0.8%) | >5 years (0.0%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (46.2%) | Vercel (1.4%) | WordPress.com (0.1%) | Sedo (0.1%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: perioperativeandrehabilitationolderadultcaretec.site (47 chars)
- Shortest SLD: ws2.site (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: sasayki.site
- Listed for sale: hofu.site
.net, 9,820 domains
We discovered 9,820 .net domains in today’s report, a 27.2% decrease from yesterday’s 13,497. Of these, 2 were registered on Aug 26, 2026, 9,767 on Aug 25, 2026.
- Godaddy: 1,537 (15.7%)
- Tucows: 1,374 (14.0%)
- Dynadot: 947 (9.6%)
- Namecheap: 780 (7.9%)
- Cloudflare: 678 (6.9%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.0 avg length | 76.2% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (92.7%) | 2-5 years (6.9%) | >5 years (0.4%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (24.9%) | Vercel (0.3%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (2.8%) | Squarespace (5.5%) | Afternic (0.2%) | Sedo (0.1%)
Anomaly signal: Only 2 domains registered on Aug 26, 2026 appears in today’s sample, compared with 9,767 from Aug 25, 2026. This indicates a delay in zone file updates from the registry, not an actual drop in registrations.
Examples
- Longest SLD: 234454565465413254646542131345466546555441111213213235456848897.net (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 50w.net (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: buzzcastly.net
- Listed for sale: nexabet.net
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 27, 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.