We discovered 540,957 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 517,998 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 490 gTLDs. This is 7.3% lower than yesterday’s Sep 04, 2026 total of 558,651.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.9 avg length | 76.5% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (94.2%) | 2-5 years (5.5%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (27.3%) | Vercel (0.9%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.4%) | Squarespace (3.1%) | Afternic (10.4%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.3%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (306,805), .xyz (55,831), .online (18,176).
- .com: 306,805
- .xyz: 55,831
- .online: 18,176
- .top: 13,870
- .site: 12,868
- .asia: 10,556
- .store: 10,257
- .net: 9,487
- .org: 8,436
- .vip: 6,800
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 306,805 domains
We discovered 306,805 .com domains in today’s report, a 5.0% decrease from yesterday’s 322,823. Of these, 149,783 were registered on Sep 04, 2026, 153,561 on Sep 03, 2026.
- Godaddy: 46,929 (15.3%)
- Namecheap: 36,263 (11.8%)
- Cloudflare: 22,141 (7.2%)
- Hostinger: 16,426 (5.4%)
- Squarespace: 14,913 (4.9%)
- Alibaba cloud: 14,329 (4.7%)
- Namesilo: 13,570 (4.4%)
- Spaceship: 12,688 (4.1%)
- Dynadot: 10,214 (3.3%)
- GMO Internet: 8,447 (2.8%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.5 avg length | 78.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.4%) | 2-5 years (8.3%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (25.9%) | Vercel (0.9%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (2.1%) | Squarespace (4.6%) | Afternic (1.0%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.5%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: globaling-offensive-chemical-weapons-che-presentially-controled.com (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: f20e.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: getsociamz.com
- Listed for sale: dkcargo.com
.xyz, 55,831 domains
We discovered 55,831 .xyz domains in today’s report, a 19.1% decrease from yesterday’s 69,001. Of these, 55,656 were registered on Sep 04, 2026, 138 on Sep 03, 2026.
- GMO Internet: 50,344 (90.2%)
- Dynadot: 971 (1.7%)
- Namecheap: 946 (1.7%)
- Godaddy: 894 (1.6%)
- Alibaba cloud: 410 (0.7%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 10.8 avg length | 95.2% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.8%) | 2-5 years (0.1%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (3.7%) | Vercel (0.2%) | Afternic (90.3%) | Atom.com (0.1%)
Single-investor signal: GMO Internet accounts for 90.2% of today’s registrations, combined with 90.4% on resale platforms, suggesting likely a single investor. Worth continued monitoring.
TLD opportunity signal: Pure-alphabet share at 95.2% combined with 90.4% on resale platforms suggests this TLD may have promotional or market stimulus driving investment activity. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: sessionclearprotectdynamiccheckmonitortrustedlogin.xyz (50 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 1wy.xyz (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: abaystore.xyz
- Listed for sale: aemiliadex.xyz
.online, 18,176 domains
We discovered 18,176 .online domains in today’s report, a 9.9% decrease from yesterday’s 20,167. Of these, 8,426 were registered on Sep 04, 2026, 9,374 on Sep 03, 2026.
- Namecheap: 4,067 (22.4%)
- Hostinger: 2,927 (16.1%)
- Godaddy: 1,812 (10.0%)
- Reg: 1,408 (7.7%)
- Publicdomainregistry: 836 (4.6%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.7 avg length | 76.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (98.1%) | 2-5 years (1.8%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (25.2%) | Vercel (0.9%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (1.0%) | Squarespace (0.1%) | Afternic (0.3%) | Sedo (0.1%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: test-bhcom-mydomain17884131446747aq4ki-13144674.online (47 chars)
- Shortest SLD: hi2.online (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: demongold.online
- Listed for sale: auratech.online
.top, 13,870 domains
We discovered 13,870 .top domains in today’s report, a 33.7% decrease from yesterday’s 20,935. Of these, 13,797 were registered on Sep 04, 2026, 19 on Sep 03, 2026.
- Alibaba cloud: 3,831 (27.6%)
- Spaceship: 2,010 (14.5%)
- Dynadot: 1,897 (13.7%)
- Namesilo: 1,617 (11.7%)
- Godaddy: 1,159 (8.4%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 7.9 avg length | 25.8% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.2%) | 2-5 years (0.6%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (17.6%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 25.8% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: supportchecksecureadvancedclientdefensesecurity.top (47 chars)
- Shortest SLD: mo7.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: nlwyv.top
.site, 12,868 domains
We discovered 12,868 .site domains in today’s report, a 12.8% decrease from yesterday’s 14,752. Of these, 5,833 were registered on Sep 04, 2026, 6,815 on Sep 03, 2026.
- Namecheap: 5,644 (43.9%)
- Hostinger: 1,691 (13.1%)
- Godaddy: 879 (6.8%)
- Spaceship: 645 (5.0%)
- Dynadot: 495 (3.8%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.1 avg length | 64.0% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.0%) | 2-5 years (1.0%) | >5 years (0.0%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (42.5%) | Vercel (1.4%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: shopping-yahoo-com-article-robo-forex-partner-code-qbm.site (54 chars)
- Shortest SLD: gcf.site (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: portalwave.site
- Listed for sale: northstar.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, Sep 05, 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.