NRDS · August 28, 2026

Daily Newly Registered Domains Intelligence: 476,684 Discovered Across 470 gTLDs on Aug 28, 2026

We discovered 500,862 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 476,684 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 470 gTLDs. This is 4.4% lower than yesterday’s Aug 27, 2026 total of 498,743.

Overall Usage Signals

Usage Signals

TLD Distribution

The top three TLDs today are .com (302,880), .online (18,057), .site (14,046).

Top gTLDs by newly registered domains volume on Aug 28, 2026

Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution

.com, 302,880 domains

We discovered 302,880 .com domains in today’s report, a 3.8% decrease from yesterday’s 314,816. Of these, 149,368 were registered on Aug 27, 2026, 149,687 on Aug 26, 2026.

Top 10 registrars for .com newly registered domains on Aug 28, 2026

Usage Signals

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.online, 18,057 domains

We discovered 18,057 .online domains in today’s report, a 1.1% increase from yesterday’s 17,868. Of these, 9,087 were registered on Aug 27, 2026, 8,664 on Aug 26, 2026.

Top 5 registrars for .online newly registered domains on Aug 28, 2026

Usage Signals

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.site, 14,046 domains

We discovered 14,046 .site domains in today’s report, a 11.7% increase from yesterday’s 12,576. Of these, 7,414 were registered on Aug 27, 2026, 6,418 on Aug 26, 2026.

Top 5 registrars for .site newly registered domains on Aug 28, 2026

Usage Signals

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.top, 13,623 domains

We discovered 13,623 .top domains in today’s report, a 24.9% decrease from yesterday’s 18,148. Of these, 13,552 were registered on Aug 27, 2026, 22 on Aug 26, 2026.

Top top 5 registrars for .2026 newly registered domains on Aug 28, 2026

Usage Signals

Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 21.2% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.

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.casa, 12,292 domains

We discovered 12,292 .casa domains in today’s report, a 4609.6% increase from yesterday’s 261. Of these, 12,289 were registered on Aug 27, 2026, 0 on Aug 26, 2026.

Top 5 registrars for .casa newly registered domains on Aug 28, 2026

Usage Signals

Burst signal: 4609.6% day-over-day increase. With 96.9% on Cloudflare DNS, more of these domains appear directed toward end-user use than resale.

Registrar concentration signal: Dynadot accounts for 99.1% of today’s registrations, with no domains observed on Afternic, Sedo, or Atom.com. Worth continued monitoring.

Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 46.1% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.

Short-term usage pattern: All domains are registered for exactly one year, with no resale-platform presence, indicating short-term usage intent. Worth continued monitoring.

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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.