We discovered 692,680 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 656,540 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 526 gTLDs. This is 12.3% lower than yesterday’s Sep 16, 2026 total of 748,570.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.3 avg length | 68.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (94.9%) | 2-5 years (4.9%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (26.6%) | Vercel (0.9%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.3%) | Squarespace (2.9%) | Afternic (6.1%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.3%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (314,297), .xyz (45,224), .cfd (37,586).
- .com: 314,297
- .xyz: 45,224
- .cfd: 37,586
- .lol: 31,307
- .online: 30,357
- .top: 27,342
- .org: 18,157
- .net: 16,811
- .site: 11,881
- .app: 11,198
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 314,297 domains
We discovered 314,297 .com domains in today’s report, a 0.9% increase from yesterday’s 311,417. Of these, 151,456 were registered on Sep 16, 2026, 158,530 on Sep 15, 2026.
- Godaddy: 50,821 (16.2%)
- Namecheap: 35,830 (11.4%)
- Cloudflare: 24,158 (7.7%)
- Squarespace: 16,157 (5.1%)
- Spaceship: 14,589 (4.6%)
- Alibaba cloud: 13,713 (4.4%)
- Hostinger: 12,592 (4.0%)
- Namesilo: 11,614 (3.7%)
- Dynadot: 9,256 (2.9%)
- Tucows: 8,471 (2.7%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.6 avg length | 78.3% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.3%) | 2-5 years (8.4%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (26.1%) | Vercel (0.9%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (2.3%) | Squarespace (5.0%) | Afternic (1.2%) | Atom.com (0.5%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: synlab-mein-laborergebnis-385644d3-52ae-446c-b6c1-7082188537c4.com (62 chars)
- Shortest SLD: b555.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: eqduhkd.com
- Listed for sale: nighiri.com
.xyz, 45,224 domains
We discovered 45,224 .xyz domains in today’s report, a 71.2% decrease from yesterday’s 156,866. Of these, 45,200 were registered on Sep 16, 2026, 8 on Sep 15, 2026.
- GMO Internet: 40,649 (89.9%)
- Namecheap: 835 (1.8%)
- Godaddy: 690 (1.5%)
- Dynadot: 536 (1.2%)
- Nicnames: 431 (1.0%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.1 avg length | 86.2% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.9%) | 2-5 years (0.1%) | >5 years (0.0%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (3.0%) | Vercel (0.2%) | Afternic (78.8%)
Burst signal: 71.2% day-over-day decrease. With 78.8% listed for sale, more of these domains appear directed toward resale than end-user use.
TLD opportunity signal: Pure-alphabet share at 86.2% combined with 78.8% on resale platforms suggests this TLD may have promotional or market stimulus driving investment activity. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: ced74fb2e857f51884ff571366512e77069eaf811fd82b71336e2a7a6fac9ec.xyz (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 7tn.xyz (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: vbkharv.xyz
- Listed for sale: knky.xyz
.cfd, 37,586 domains
We discovered 37,586 .cfd domains in today’s report, a 23.4% increase from yesterday’s 30,463. Of these, 18,643 were registered on Sep 16, 2026, 18,814 on Sep 15, 2026.
- GMO Internet: 29,984 (79.8%)
- Spaceship: 5,985 (15.9%)
- Dynadot: 410 (1.1%)
- Namesilo: 304 (0.8%)
- Namecheap: 194 (0.5%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 9.7 avg length | 10.8% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (100.0%) | 2-5 years (0.0%) | >5 years (0.0%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (30.9%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 10.8% 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: 7mcn.cfd (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: mojsertvi.cfd
.lol, 31,307 domains
We discovered 31,307 .lol domains in today’s report, a 65.5% increase from yesterday’s 18,920. Of these, 21,503 were registered on Sep 16, 2026, 9,760 on Sep 15, 2026.
- GMO Internet: 27,482 (87.8%)
- Dynadot: 1,389 (4.4%)
- Namecheap: 965 (3.1%)
- Spaceship: 695 (2.2%)
- Porkbun: 229 (0.7%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 8.1 avg length | 13.0% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (100.0%) | 2-5 years (0.0%) | >5 years (0.0%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (23.7%) | Vercel (0.1%)
Burst signal: 65.5% day-over-day increase. With 23.7% on Cloudflare DNS, more of these domains appear directed toward end-user use than resale.
Registrar concentration signal: GMO Internet accounts for 87.8% of today’s registrations, with no domains observed on Afternic, Sedo, or Atom.com. Worth continued monitoring.
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 13.0% 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: instantwithdrawalcasino-compassaud.lol (34 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 6n.lol (2 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: egpleant.lol
- Listed for sale: oxygene.lol
.online, 30,357 domains
We discovered 30,357 .online domains in today’s report, a 14.1% increase from yesterday’s 26,614. Of these, 20,689 were registered on Sep 16, 2026, 9,272 on Sep 15, 2026.
- Synergy wholesale: 8,067 (26.6%)
- Namecheap: 4,992 (16.4%)
- West.cn: 2,715 (8.9%)
- Hostinger: 2,636 (8.7%)
- Godaddy: 1,970 (6.5%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.7 avg length | 77.0% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.0%) | 2-5 years (1.0%) | >5 years (0.0%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (17.4%) | Vercel (0.6%) | WordPress.com (0.1%) | Wix (0.7%) | Squarespace (0.1%) | Afternic (0.2%) | Sedo (0.1%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: securedconnectionaccountsystemultigfsuitaminmxsecure.online (52 chars)
- Shortest SLD: v8a.online (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: smswizard.online
- Listed for sale: obscura.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 17, 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.