We discovered 341,011 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 328,700 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 478 gTLDs. This is 8.2% lower than yesterday’s Sep 11, 2026 total of 358,152.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.0 avg length | 72.1% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (95.2%) | 2-5 years (4.6%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (22.5%) | Vercel (0.7%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (1.2%) | Squarespace (2.7%) | Afternic (16.2%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.3%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (142,881), .xyz (57,438), .top (31,507).
- .com: 142,881
- .xyz: 57,438
- .top: 31,507
- .online: 8,898
- .net: 8,884
- .org: 8,613
- .site: 5,595
- .info: 4,802
- .store: 4,787
- .click: 3,083
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 142,881 domains
We discovered 142,881 .com domains in today’s report, a 7.9% decrease from yesterday’s 155,072. Of these, 140,371 were registered on Sep 11, 2026, 1,794 on Sep 10, 2026.
- Godaddy: 21,417 (15.0%)
- Namecheap: 17,127 (12.0%)
- Cloudflare: 10,880 (7.6%)
- Squarespace: 7,444 (5.2%)
- Alibaba cloud: 7,057 (4.9%)
- Hostinger: 6,603 (4.6%)
- Spaceship: 6,331 (4.4%)
- Namesilo: 4,506 (3.2%)
- GMO Internet: 4,401 (3.1%)
- Dynadot: 4,293 (3.0%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.7 avg length | 78.4% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.1%) | 2-5 years (8.6%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (25.3%) | Vercel (0.9%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (2.1%) | Squarespace (5.0%) | Afternic (1.1%) | Atom.com (0.6%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: xn--0mqy6g3yaqni8b63v5je9ws66cv5qa311af63ev3sk2vgme2zb87vyno5xc.com (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 421o.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: lyantechbq.com
- Listed for sale: etudelec.com
.xyz, 57,438 domains
We discovered 57,438 .xyz domains in today’s report, a 23.1% decrease from yesterday’s 74,693. Of these, 57,385 were registered on Sep 11, 2026, 36 on Sep 10, 2026.
- GMO Internet: 50,976 (88.7%)
- Godaddy: 1,222 (2.1%)
- Dynadot: 1,209 (2.1%)
- Namecheap: 815 (1.4%)
- Nicnames: 452 (0.8%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 10.9 avg length | 95.8% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.8%) | 2-5 years (0.1%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (4.4%) | Vercel (0.3%) | Afternic (88.8%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
TLD opportunity signal: Pure-alphabet share at 95.8% combined with 89.0% on resale platforms suggests this TLD may have promotional or market stimulus driving investment activity. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: my-pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.xyz (48 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 8-k.xyz (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: katakjppod.xyz
- Listed for sale: fomochart.xyz
.top, 31,507 domains
We discovered 31,507 .top domains in today’s report, a 182.7% increase from yesterday’s 11,147. Of these, 31,425 were registered on Sep 11, 2026, 16 on Sep 10, 2026.
- Godaddy: 23,132 (73.4%)
- Spaceship: 1,783 (5.7%)
- Namesilo: 1,634 (5.2%)
- Dynadot: 1,298 (4.1%)
- Gname: 672 (2.1%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 5.7 avg length | 11.3% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.6%) | 2-5 years (0.3%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (8.4%)
Burst signal: 182.7% day-over-day increase. With 8.4% on Cloudflare DNS, more of these domains appear directed toward end-user use than resale.
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 11.3% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: ncsmqf93v0eqlyicnobc33zyvkoqyzam62duah.top (38 chars)
- Shortest SLD: pk3.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: afedotif.top
.online, 8,898 domains
We discovered 8,898 .online domains in today’s report, a 8.1% decrease from yesterday’s 9,686. Of these, 8,480 were registered on Sep 11, 2026, 4 on Sep 10, 2026.
- Namecheap: 1,590 (17.9%)
- Hostinger: 1,296 (14.6%)
- Godaddy: 1,109 (12.5%)
- Reg: 846 (9.5%)
- Spaceship: 472 (5.3%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.7 avg length | 77.1% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (97.9%) | 2-5 years (2.1%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (20.5%) | Vercel (0.7%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (2.6%) | Squarespace (0.1%) | Afternic (0.4%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: xn--fhqxa21b2loos01aqvdd9kz5ak4ap8nb6or6jrk7c52dhu2ko8a.online (55 chars)
- Shortest SLD: ras.online (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: msuplants.online
- Listed for sale: flocksnap.online
.net, 8,884 domains
We discovered 8,884 .net domains in today’s report, a 19.5% decrease from yesterday’s 11,034. Of these, 6 were registered on Sep 11, 2026, 8,821 on Sep 10, 2026.
- Godaddy: 1,526 (17.2%)
- Dynadot: 810 (9.1%)
- Namecheap: 716 (8.1%)
- Cloudflare: 654 (7.4%)
- Namesilo: 555 (6.2%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.1 avg length | 73.3% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (92.0%) | 2-5 years (7.4%) | >5 years (0.6%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (25.9%) | Vercel (0.5%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (2.5%) | Squarespace (5.7%) | Afternic (0.2%)
Anomaly signal: Only 6 domains registered on Sep 11, 2026 appears in today’s sample, compared with 8,821 from Sep 10, 2026. This indicates a delay in zone file updates from the registry, not an actual drop in registrations.
Examples
- Longest SLD: businesseshelpingbusinesseslakecountyca.net (39 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 94c.net (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: beatmasuk.net
- Listed for sale: cyberjobs.net
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 12, 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.