We discovered 492,194 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 475,816 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 528 gTLDs. This is 31.8% lower than yesterday’s Sep 18, 2026 total of 697,219.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.3 avg length | 74.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (96.0%) | 2-5 years (3.8%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (24.0%) | Vercel (0.8%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (0.9%) | Squarespace (2.1%) | Afternic (20.2%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (142,472), .xyz (106,426), .top (29,441).
- .com: 142,472
- .xyz: 106,426
- .top: 29,441
- .online: 18,208
- .net: 17,714
- .org: 17,458
- .site: 11,133
- .store: 9,171
- .info: 9,064
- .app: 7,873
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 142,472 domains
We discovered 142,472 .com domains in today’s report, a 53.9% decrease from yesterday’s 309,365. Of these, 139,403 were registered on Sep 18, 2026, 2,619 on Sep 17, 2026.
- Godaddy: 22,276 (15.6%)
- Namecheap: 14,648 (10.3%)
- Cloudflare: 10,900 (7.7%)
- Spaceship: 8,692 (6.1%)
- Squarespace: 6,999 (4.9%)
- Hostinger: 5,945 (4.2%)
- Alibaba cloud: 5,720 (4.0%)
- GMO Internet: 4,189 (2.9%)
- Dynadot: 4,146 (2.9%)
- Tucows: 3,950 (2.8%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.9 avg length | 77.3% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.2%) | 2-5 years (8.5%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (24.7%) | Vercel (0.9%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (2.2%) | Squarespace (4.7%) | Afternic (1.0%) | Atom.com (0.4%)
Burst signal: 53.9% day-over-day decrease. With 24.7% on Cloudflare DNS, more of these domains appear directed toward end-user use than resale.
Examples
- Longest SLD: xn--79q90cz3anzxiua27i9j69uf54bzdb1y2dswcyxghybb0i4rvbjf6d094z.com (62 chars)
- Shortest SLD: ze69.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: rexysdr.com
- Listed for sale: jwdfilms.com
.xyz, 106,426 domains
We discovered 106,426 .xyz domains in today’s report, a 33.3% decrease from yesterday’s 159,673. Of these, 46,092 were registered on Sep 18, 2026, 59,267 on Sep 17, 2026.
- GMO Internet: 94,243 (88.6%)
- Dynadot: 2,392 (2.2%)
- Namecheap: 1,848 (1.7%)
- Spaceship: 1,486 (1.4%)
- Godaddy: 1,372 (1.3%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.7 avg length | 94.1% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.8%) | 2-5 years (0.1%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (3.9%) | Vercel (0.2%) | Afternic (88.5%) | Atom.com (0.1%)
TLD opportunity signal: Pure-alphabet share at 94.1% combined with 88.6% on resale platforms suggests this TLD may have promotional or market stimulus driving investment activity. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: xn--ykqg85d51gsow7d1zwwnb6n04nfzpx0br2l71fkp9bnrtz1owwqtqar331a.xyz (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 1d1.xyz (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: pyxaqen.xyz
- Listed for sale: nodemines.xyz
.top, 29,441 domains
We discovered 29,441 .top domains in today’s report, a 35.5% increase from yesterday’s 21,720. Of these, 18,271 were registered on Sep 18, 2026, 11,051 on Sep 17, 2026.
- godaddy.com: 10,114 (34.4%)
- Spaceship: 4,264 (14.5%)
- Namesilo: 3,355 (11.4%)
- Dynadot: 3,228 (11.0%)
- Gname: 1,134 (3.9%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 7.4 avg length | 19.8% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.0%) | 2-5 years (0.8%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (17.9%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 19.8% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: weltweiteversandinfrastrukturinternationalespaket.top (49 chars)
- Shortest SLD: a94.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: chaussures.top
- Listed for sale: taco.top
.online, 18,208 domains
We discovered 18,208 .online domains in today’s report, a 20.7% decrease from yesterday’s 22,962. Of these, 8,300 were registered on Sep 18, 2026, 9,516 on Sep 17, 2026.
- Namecheap: 3,807 (20.9%)
- Hostinger: 2,569 (14.1%)
- Godaddy: 1,907 (10.5%)
- Reg: 1,576 (8.7%)
- Spaceship: 794 (4.4%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.5 avg length | 76.2% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (98.2%) | 2-5 years (1.8%) | >5 years (0.0%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (24.4%) | Vercel (0.7%) | WordPress.com (0.1%) | Wix (1.4%) | Squarespace (0.1%) | Afternic (0.3%) | Sedo (0.1%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: xn--5hqs0f02bcc55aw8mzrkmyffiw2ymsa8cz27c0rxbs7dvbkwo6aprx2m1a.online (62 chars)
- Shortest SLD: w8a.online (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: uereswe.online
- Listed for sale: relativity.online
.net, 17,714 domains
We discovered 17,714 .net domains in today’s report, a 3.4% increase from yesterday’s 17,138. Of these, 3 were registered on Sep 18, 2026, 9,027 on Sep 17, 2026.
- Godaddy: 3,239 (18.3%)
- Dynadot: 1,616 (9.1%)
- Namecheap: 1,604 (9.1%)
- Cloudflare: 1,021 (5.8%)
- Squarespace: 962 (5.4%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.4 avg length | 75.1% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (92.0%) | 2-5 years (7.5%) | >5 years (0.5%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (25.7%) | Vercel (0.3%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (2.8%) | Squarespace (5.2%) | Afternic (0.2%)
Anomaly signal: Only 3 domains registered on Sep 18, 2026 appears in today’s sample, compared with 9,027 from Sep 17, 2026. This indicates a delay in zone file updates from the registry, not an actual drop in registrations.
Examples
- Longest SLD: voiceanchtgfgudtdhgdd-eddm-57654-baseuu-64683.net (45 chars)
- Shortest SLD: y0h.net (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: myhomecore.net
- Listed for sale: fabor.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 19, 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.