We discovered 499,993 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 474,439 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 483 gTLDs. This is 0.5% lower than yesterday’s Aug 28, 2026 total of 476,684.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.6 avg length | 70.5% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (93.9%) | 2-5 years (5.9%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (26.4%) | Vercel (1.0%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.6%) | Squarespace (3.3%) | Afternic (0.8%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.8%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (295,702), .vip (30,216), .online (17,463).
- .com: 295,702
- .vip: 30,216
- .online: 17,463
- .site: 13,597
- .asia: 11,891
- .top: 11,763
- .store: 8,918
- .net: 8,682
- .org: 8,060
- .xyz: 5,138
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 295,702 domains
We discovered 295,702 .com domains in today’s report, a 2.4% decrease from yesterday’s 302,880. Of these, 140,637 were registered on Aug 28, 2026, 151,198 on Aug 27, 2026.
- Godaddy: 43,254 (14.6%)
- Namecheap: 31,929 (10.8%)
- Cloudflare: 21,550 (7.3%)
- Hostinger: 16,625 (5.6%)
- Squarespace: 14,329 (4.8%)
- Alibaba cloud: 13,633 (4.6%)
- Spaceship: 13,216 (4.5%)
- Dynadot: 12,144 (4.1%)
- Cosmotown: 10,998 (3.7%)
- Tucows: 7,613 (2.6%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.4 avg length | 77.3% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.3%) | 2-5 years (8.4%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (23.9%) | Vercel (0.8%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (2.3%) | Squarespace (4.7%) | Afternic (1.1%) | Atom.com (1.3%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: google-site-verificationbfasmik5of4nc3ipxgjlvrmpozgaxswyah6-95o.com (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: kj8w.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: teamtagca.com
- Listed for sale: artlave.com
.vip, 30,216 domains
We discovered 30,216 .vip domains in today’s report, a 398.5% increase from yesterday’s 6,061. Of these, 27,287 were registered on Aug 28, 2026, 2,843 on Aug 27, 2026.
- Godaddy: 24,626 (81.5%)
- Dynadot: 3,691 (12.2%)
- Gname: 391 (1.3%)
- Namecheap: 352 (1.2%)
- Spaceship: 279 (0.9%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 6.5 avg length | 15.7% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.8%) | 2-5 years (0.2%) | >5 years (0.0%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (5.6%)
Burst signal: 398.5% day-over-day increase. With 5.6% on Cloudflare DNS, more of these domains appear directed toward end-user use than resale.
Registrar concentration signal: Godaddy accounts for 81.5% of today’s registrations, with no domains observed on Afternic, Sedo, or Atom.com. Worth continued monitoring.
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 15.7% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: yenilenenbizdenemebonuscusuyuztr.vip (32 chars)
- Shortest SLD: hc9.vip (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: froschliga.vip
- Listed for sale: pangea.vip
.online, 17,463 domains
We discovered 17,463 .online domains in today’s report, a 3.3% decrease from yesterday’s 18,057. Of these, 7,791 were registered on Aug 28, 2026, 8,869 on Aug 27, 2026.
- Namecheap: 3,389 (19.4%)
- Hostinger: 2,711 (15.5%)
- Reg: 2,101 (12.0%)
- Godaddy: 2,014 (11.5%)
- Publicdomainregistry: 809 (4.6%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.3 avg length | 79.2% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (98.6%) | 2-5 years (1.4%) | >5 years (0.0%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (22.0%) | Vercel (1.2%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (0.8%) | Squarespace (0.1%) | Afternic (0.5%) | Sedo (0.3%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: whataretheratesforanewdomainforfirstyearandyearsafter.online (53 chars)
- Shortest SLD: g-7.online (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: skymagic.online
- Listed for sale: createch.online
.site, 13,597 domains
We discovered 13,597 .site domains in today’s report, a 3.2% decrease from yesterday’s 14,046. Of these, 6,114 were registered on Aug 28, 2026, 7,236 on Aug 27, 2026.
- Namecheap: 5,561 (40.9%)
- Hostinger: 1,473 (10.8%)
- Godaddy: 965 (7.1%)
- Spaceship: 947 (7.0%)
- West.cn: 532 (3.9%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.5 avg length | 60.4% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.1%) | 2-5 years (0.9%) | >5 years (0.0%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (40.6%) | Vercel (3.5%) | Squarespace (0.1%) | Sedo (0.2%) | Atom.com (0.1%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: creditoconsumosantanderplusf340021badc5f856e608a3af039f6.site (56 chars)
- Shortest SLD: c8q.site (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: pgbetqljk.site
- Listed for sale: pixelcode.site
.asia, 11,891 domains
We discovered 11,891 .asia domains in today’s report, a 222.2% increase from yesterday’s 3,690. Of these, 11,871 were registered on Aug 28, 2026, 13 on Aug 27, 2026.
- Eranet: 11,099 (93.3%)
- Alibaba cloud: 231 (1.9%)
- Dnspod: 212 (1.8%)
- Namecheap: 92 (0.8%)
- Spaceship: 92 (0.8%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 20.5 avg length | 63.9% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.9%) | 2-5 years (0.1%) | >5 years (0.0%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (85.1%)
Burst signal: 222.2% day-over-day increase. With 85.1% on Cloudflare DNS, more of these domains appear directed toward end-user use than resale.
Registrar concentration signal: Eranet accounts for 93.3% of today’s registrations, with no domains observed on Afternic, Sedo, or Atom.com. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: qiutanbifenjishizuqiubifenguanwangshouji10pc.asia (44 chars)
- Shortest SLD: mlv.asia (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: hangbifen.asia
- Listed for sale: alert.asia
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 29, 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.