We discovered 785,515 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 748,570 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 531 gTLDs. This is 70.6% higher than yesterday’s Sep 15, 2026 total of 438,679.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.4 avg length | 73.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (95.5%) | 2-5 years (4.3%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (23.1%) | Vercel (0.8%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.1%) | Squarespace (2.5%) | Afternic (18.5%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (311,417), .xyz (156,866), .cfd (30,463).
- .com: 311,417
- .xyz: 156,866
- .cfd: 30,463
- .online: 26,614
- .top: 24,967
- .lol: 18,920
- .org: 17,818
- .net: 13,745
- .site: 13,211
- .store: 11,118
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 311,417 domains
We discovered 311,417 .com domains in today’s report, a 21.2% increase from yesterday’s 256,887. Of these, 156,309 were registered on Sep 15, 2026, 151,921 on Sep 14, 2026.
- Godaddy: 51,695 (16.6%)
- Namecheap: 36,352 (11.7%)
- Cloudflare: 23,970 (7.7%)
- Squarespace: 15,989 (5.1%)
- Spaceship: 14,518 (4.7%)
- Hostinger: 13,407 (4.3%)
- Alibaba cloud: 13,192 (4.2%)
- Dynadot: 9,060 (2.9%)
- GMO Internet: 8,743 (2.8%)
- Tucows: 8,434 (2.7%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.6 avg length | 78.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.3%) | 2-5 years (8.4%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (25.3%) | Vercel (0.9%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (2.2%) | Squarespace (4.9%) | Afternic (1.0%) | Atom.com (0.4%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: hamiseh-varedmishe-baraye-to-ma-mohandes-doroq-migeeeeeeeeeee.com (61 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 1n19.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: daticca.com
- Listed for sale: aabsi.com
.xyz, 156,866 domains
We discovered 156,866 .xyz domains in today’s report. Of these, 80,611 were registered on Sep 15, 2026, 58,627 on Sep 14, 2026.
- GMO Internet: 134,849 (86.0%)
- Spaceship: 6,729 (4.3%)
- Dynadot: 4,105 (2.6%)
- Godaddy: 3,645 (2.3%)
- Namecheap: 2,233 (1.4%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.2 avg length | 89.8% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.9%) | 2-5 years (0.1%) | >5 years (0.0%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (3.2%) | Vercel (0.2%) | Afternic (86.0%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
TLD opportunity signal: Pure-alphabet share at 89.8% combined with 86.2% on resale platforms suggests this TLD may have promotional or market stimulus driving investment activity. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: cnic-probe-aws-north-america-oregon-live-1789543202.xyz (51 chars)
- Shortest SLD: a9.xyz (2 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: sprintad.xyz
- Listed for sale: gurrhanns.xyz
.cfd, 30,463 domains
We discovered 30,463 .cfd domains in today’s report, a 322.0% increase from yesterday’s 7,219. Of these, 18,848 were registered on Sep 15, 2026, 6,463 on Sep 14, 2026.
- GMO Internet: 17,486 (57.4%)
- Spaceship: 11,413 (37.5%)
- Dynadot: 382 (1.3%)
- Namesilo: 295 (1.0%)
- Namecheap: 205 (0.7%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.9 avg length | 11.8% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (100.0%) | 2-5 years (0.0%) | >5 years (0.0%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (31.3%)
Burst signal: 322.0% day-over-day increase. With 31.3% on Cloudflare DNS, more of these domains appear directed toward end-user use than resale.
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 11.8% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Short-term usage pattern: All domains are registered for exactly one year, with no resale-platform presence, indicating short-term usage intent. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: klz-terminvereinbarung-zur-besichtigung-einer-wohnung.cfd (53 chars)
- Shortest SLD: xn88.cfd (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: noblesheen.cfd
.online, 26,614 domains
We discovered 26,614 .online domains in today’s report, a 66.3% increase from yesterday’s 16,007. Of these, 9,638 were registered on Sep 15, 2026, 8,966 on Sep 14, 2026.
- Namecheap: 4,834 (18.2%)
- Synergy wholesale: 3,795 (14.3%)
- Hostinger: 2,826 (10.6%)
- West.cn: 2,673 (10.0%)
- Godaddy: 2,194 (8.2%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.4 avg length | 73.9% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (98.9%) | 2-5 years (1.1%) | >5 years (0.0%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (19.9%) | Vercel (0.6%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (0.8%) | Squarespace (0.1%) | Afternic (0.3%)
Burst signal: 66.3% day-over-day increase. With 19.9% on Cloudflare DNS, more of these domains appear directed toward end-user use than resale.
Examples
- Longest SLD: the-cake-of-lost-things-fanouropita-or-phanouropita.online (51 chars)
- Shortest SLD: v8a.online (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: thepromind.online
- Listed for sale: obscura.online
.top, 24,967 domains
We discovered 24,967 .top domains in today’s report, a 35.2% increase from yesterday’s 18,461. Of these, 16,814 were registered on Sep 15, 2026, 7,954 on Sep 14, 2026.
- namemart pte. ltd.: 6,910 (27.7%)
- Spaceship: 4,326 (17.3%)
- Namesilo: 3,301 (13.2%)
- Dynadot: 2,404 (9.6%)
- Gname: 1,644 (6.6%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 7.4 avg length | 29.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.1%) | 2-5 years (0.7%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (23.9%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 29.6% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: nvhsuydyashghsyadyaggtyydsgadyygkadkaodoafsafdadahgngngngngn.top (60 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 17r.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: hitclubx.top
- Listed for sale: places.top
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 16, 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.