We discovered 286,200 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 272,546 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 467 gTLDs. This is 47.4% lower than yesterday’s Sep 05, 2026 total of 517,998.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.0 avg length | 76.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (95.8%) | 2-5 years (4.1%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (20.9%) | Vercel (0.9%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (1.1%) | Squarespace (2.3%) | Afternic (21.9%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (115,071), .xyz (61,478), .top (14,155).
- .com: 115,071
- .xyz: 61,478
- .top: 14,155
- .net: 8,765
- .online: 7,338
- .app: 6,616
- .site: 5,988
- .org: 5,965
- .store: 4,030
- .asia: 3,394
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 115,071 domains
We discovered 115,071 .com domains in today’s report, a 62.5% decrease from yesterday’s 306,805. Of these, 113,656 were registered on Sep 05, 2026, 932 on Sep 04, 2026.
- Godaddy: 17,122 (14.9%)
- Namecheap: 16,034 (13.9%)
- Cloudflare: 9,289 (8.1%)
- Hostinger: 6,610 (5.7%)
- Squarespace: 5,130 (4.5%)
- Alibaba cloud: 4,625 (4.0%)
- Spaceship: 4,123 (3.6%)
- Dynadot: 3,590 (3.1%)
- Porkbun: 3,057 (2.7%)
- GMO Internet: 2,996 (2.6%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.2 avg length | 74.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (92.0%) | 2-5 years (7.7%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (24.3%) | Vercel (1.0%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (2.1%) | Squarespace (4.2%) | Afternic (1.4%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.3%)
Burst signal: 62.5% day-over-day decrease. With 24.3% on Cloudflare DNS, more of these domains appear directed toward end-user use than resale.
Examples
- Longest SLD: e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b85.com (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 2r84.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: qdgpzr.com
- Listed for sale: ppgblue.com
.xyz, 61,478 domains
We discovered 61,478 .xyz domains in today’s report, a 10.1% increase from yesterday’s 55,831. Of these, 60,727 were registered on Sep 05, 2026, 208 on Sep 04, 2026.
- GMO Internet: 50,204 (81.7%)
- Alibaba cloud: 7,780 (12.7%)
- Namecheap: 743 (1.2%)
- Dynadot: 527 (0.9%)
- Godaddy: 514 (0.8%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 10.9 avg length | 97.7% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.9%) | 2-5 years (0.1%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (2.0%) | Vercel (0.1%) | Afternic (93.9%)
Single-investor signal: GMO Internet accounts for 81.7% of today’s registrations, combined with 93.9% on resale platforms, suggesting likely a single investor. Worth continued monitoring.
TLD opportunity signal: Pure-alphabet share at 97.7% combined with 93.9% on resale platforms suggests this TLD may have promotional or market stimulus driving investment activity. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: notification-verification-messenger.xyz (35 chars)
- Shortest SLD: hz.xyz (2 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: rpkvvvt.xyz
- Listed for sale: zyttrence.xyz
.top, 14,155 domains
We discovered 14,155 .top domains in today’s report, a 2.1% increase from yesterday’s 13,870. Of these, 14,093 were registered on Sep 05, 2026, 10 on Sep 04, 2026.
- Alibaba cloud: 3,759 (26.6%)
- Dynadot: 2,076 (14.7%)
- Spaceship: 1,814 (12.8%)
- West.cn: 1,739 (12.3%)
- Namesilo: 1,234 (8.7%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 7.3 avg length | 27.9% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.5%) | 2-5 years (0.4%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (15.5%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 27.9% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: wohnungsanfrage-formular-a49b90b5f15ce514473.top (44 chars)
- Shortest SLD: vh3.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: ptwjp.top
.net, 8,765 domains
We discovered 8,765 .net domains in today’s report, a 7.6% decrease from yesterday’s 9,487. Of these, 1 was registered on Sep 05, 2026, 8,713 on Sep 04, 2026.
- Godaddy: 1,597 (18.2%)
- Namecheap: 842 (9.6%)
- Namesilo: 710 (8.1%)
- Cloudflare: 680 (7.8%)
- Dynadot: 609 (6.9%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.3 avg length | 79.8% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (92.2%) | 2-5 years (7.4%) | >5 years (0.4%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (25.9%) | Vercel (0.3%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (2.6%) | Squarespace (4.9%) | Afternic (0.2%) | Atom.com (0.1%)
Anomaly signal: Only 1 domain registered on Sep 05, 2026 appears in today’s sample, compared with 8,713 from Sep 04, 2026. This indicates a delay in zone file updates from the registry, not an actual drop in registrations.
Examples
- Longest SLD: minneapolisstpaulchamberofcommerce.net (34 chars)
- Shortest SLD: ql3.net (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: ownerside.net
- Listed for sale: mycroft.net
.online, 7,338 domains
We discovered 7,338 .online domains in today’s report, a 59.6% decrease from yesterday’s 18,176. Of these, 7,060 were registered on Sep 05, 2026, 5 on Sep 04, 2026.
- Namecheap: 1,626 (22.2%)
- Hostinger: 1,254 (17.1%)
- Godaddy: 734 (10.0%)
- Dynadot: 555 (7.6%)
- Reg: 481 (6.6%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.0 avg length | 75.3% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (98.3%) | 2-5 years (1.6%) | >5 years (0.0%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (20.1%) | Vercel (0.8%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (0.9%) | Squarespace (0.1%) | Afternic (0.4%)
Burst signal: 59.6% day-over-day decrease. With 20.1% on Cloudflare DNS, more of these domains appear directed toward end-user use than resale.
Examples
- Longest SLD: this-is-the-longest-domain-name-you-can-possibly-buy.online (52 chars)
- Shortest SLD: qb2.online (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: golddigest.online
- Listed for sale: algosiya.online
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 06, 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.