We discovered 427,076 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 397,666 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 474 gTLDs. This is 16.2% lower than yesterday’s Aug 29, 2026 total of 474,439.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.2 avg length | 68.4% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (93.7%) | 2-5 years (6.0%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (24.7%) | Vercel (1.0%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.6%) | Squarespace (3.2%) | Afternic (0.9%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.9%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (249,017), .vip (29,823), .online (14,672).
- .com: 249,017
- .vip: 29,823
- .online: 14,672
- .top: 13,667
- .site: 11,950
- .store: 8,415
- .net: 7,349
- .org: 6,934
- .app: 6,023
- .xyz: 4,456
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 249,017 domains
We discovered 249,017 .com domains in today’s report, a 15.8% decrease from yesterday’s 295,702. Of these, 103,544 were registered on Aug 29, 2026, 142,676 on Aug 28, 2026.
- Godaddy: 35,166 (14.1%)
- Namecheap: 27,539 (11.1%)
- Cloudflare: 19,817 (8.0%)
- Hostinger: 16,000 (6.4%)
- Alibaba cloud: 11,938 (4.8%)
- Squarespace: 11,868 (4.8%)
- Dynadot: 10,516 (4.2%)
- Spaceship: 9,734 (3.9%)
- Cosmotown: 6,916 (2.8%)
- Tucows: 6,477 (2.6%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.3 avg length | 77.0% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.2%) | 2-5 years (8.5%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (25.2%) | Vercel (0.9%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (2.3%) | Squarespace (4.6%) | Afternic (1.3%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (1.5%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: google-site-verificationbfasmik5of4nc3ipxgjlvrmpozgaxswyah6-95o.com (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 89y9.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: filmyop.com
- Listed for sale: ysfzs.com
.vip, 29,823 domains
We discovered 29,823 .vip domains in today’s report, a 1.3% decrease from yesterday’s 30,216. Of these, 2,528 were registered on Aug 29, 2026, 27,198 on Aug 28, 2026.
- Godaddy: 24,622 (82.6%)
- Dynadot: 3,431 (11.5%)
- Gname: 379 (1.3%)
- Namecheap: 311 (1.0%)
- namemart pte. ltd.: 244 (0.8%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 6.4 avg length | 15.2% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.8%) | 2-5 years (0.2%) | >5 years (0.0%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (5.5%)
Anomaly signal: Only 2,528 domains registered on Aug 29, 2026 appears in today’s sample, compared with 27,198 from Aug 28, 2026. This indicates a delay in zone file updates from the registry, not an actual drop in registrations.
Registrar concentration signal: Godaddy accounts for 82.6% of today’s registrations, with no domains observed on Afternic, Sedo, or Atom.com. Worth continued monitoring.
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 15.2% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: yenilenenbizdenemebonuscusuyuztr.vip (32 chars)
- Shortest SLD: m87.vip (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: retroarch.vip
.online, 14,672 domains
We discovered 14,672 .online domains in today’s report, a 16.0% decrease from yesterday’s 17,463. Of these, 6,326 were registered on Aug 29, 2026, 7,574 on Aug 28, 2026.
- Hostinger: 2,539 (17.3%)
- Namecheap: 2,488 (17.0%)
- Reg: 1,779 (12.1%)
- Godaddy: 1,648 (11.2%)
- Publicdomainregistry: 651 (4.4%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.4 avg length | 77.5% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (98.4%) | 2-5 years (1.5%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (16.9%) | Vercel (1.2%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.0%) | Squarespace (0.1%) | Afternic (0.4%) | Sedo (0.2%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: google-site-verificationbraesvyebikyznrd21ddqcgkahrcg34ziz.online (58 chars)
- Shortest SLD: ak7.online (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: curvit.online
- Listed for sale: bitcom.online
.top, 13,667 domains
We discovered 13,667 .top domains in today’s report, a 16.2% increase from yesterday’s 11,763. Of these, 13,618 were registered on Aug 29, 2026, 14 on Aug 28, 2026.
- Alibaba cloud: 3,740 (27.4%)
- namemart pte. ltd.: 3,075 (22.5%)
- Spaceship: 1,695 (12.4%)
- Dynadot: 1,406 (10.3%)
- Namesilo: 851 (6.2%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 7.3 avg length | 20.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.5%) | 2-5 years (0.4%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (8.5%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 20.6% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: t72wey78rddcijcoxm3r0idpvkscdk.top (30 chars)
- Shortest SLD: bm3.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: jiusevip.top
- Listed for sale: saatsatmak.top
.site, 11,950 domains
We discovered 11,950 .site domains in today’s report, a 12.1% decrease from yesterday’s 13,597. Of these, 5,809 were registered on Aug 29, 2026, 5,950 on Aug 28, 2026.
- Namecheap: 4,723 (39.5%)
- Hostinger: 1,339 (11.2%)
- West.cn: 1,125 (9.4%)
- Godaddy: 843 (7.1%)
- Spaceship: 520 (4.4%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.2 avg length | 53.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.1%) | 2-5 years (0.9%) | >5 years (0.0%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (39.3%) | Vercel (2.3%) | Sedo (0.2%) | Atom.com (0.1%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: abodeinfraconsukhshantikoparsector9byneelkanthdevelopers.site (56 chars)
- Shortest SLD: mpp.site (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: blacksms.site
- Listed for sale: ktvslot.site
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 30, 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.