We discovered 532,508 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 494,143 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 500 gTLDs. This is 8.2% higher than yesterday’s Sep 20, 2026 total of 456,717.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.6 avg length | 77.7% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (95.5%) | 2-5 years (4.3%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (21.7%) | Vercel (0.9%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.2%) | Squarespace (2.5%) | Afternic (21.5%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.3%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (220,072), .xyz (110,888), .top (19,010).
- .com: 220,072
- .xyz: 110,888
- .top: 19,010
- .online: 13,371
- .net: 13,292
- .org: 10,911
- .site: 8,809
- .store: 7,680
- .app: 6,236
- .vip: 5,509
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 220,072 domains
We discovered 220,072 .com domains in today’s report, a 13.3% decrease from yesterday’s 253,746. Of these, 107,831 were registered on Sep 20, 2026, 108,224 on Sep 19, 2026.
- Godaddy: 31,416 (14.3%)
- Namecheap: 21,757 (9.9%)
- Cloudflare: 18,986 (8.6%)
- Alibaba cloud: 11,222 (5.1%)
- Squarespace: 10,056 (4.6%)
- Spaceship: 10,027 (4.6%)
- Cosmotown: 9,982 (4.5%)
- Hostinger: 9,368 (4.3%)
- Dynadot: 6,552 (3.0%)
- Namesilo: 6,501 (3.0%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.2 avg length | 77.1% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.9%) | 2-5 years (7.8%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (24.8%) | Vercel (0.9%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (2.2%) | Squarespace (4.4%) | Afternic (1.5%) | Atom.com (0.4%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: metanamepdomain-verifycontent13eebc11d6f1f7d5b9d0b0b747a1d899or.com (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: jr2.com (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: frigoborsa.com
- Listed for sale: dizlike.com
.xyz, 110,888 domains
We discovered 110,888 .xyz domains in today’s report. Of these, 54,092 were registered on Sep 20, 2026, 56,743 on Sep 19, 2026.
- GMO Internet: 101,980 (92.0%)
- Namecheap: 1,518 (1.4%)
- Godaddy: 1,212 (1.1%)
- Dynadot: 1,191 (1.1%)
- Alibaba cloud: 1,109 (1.0%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 13.1 avg length | 96.7% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.8%) | 2-5 years (0.1%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (3.1%) | Vercel (0.2%) | Afternic (92.0%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
Single-investor signal: GMO Internet accounts for 92.0% of today’s registrations, combined with 92.2% on resale platforms, suggesting likely a single investor. Worth continued monitoring.
TLD opportunity signal: Pure-alphabet share at 96.7% combined with 92.2% on resale platforms suggests this TLD may have promotional or market stimulus driving investment activity. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: hbasdhgashdjgsjhgshjfghsagfuashjdghjsadghsdafghjsafd.xyz (52 chars)
- Shortest SLD: jw.xyz (2 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: testhack.xyz
- Listed for sale: applycale.xyz
.top, 19,010 domains
We discovered 19,010 .top domains in today’s report, a 34.6% decrease from yesterday’s 29,052. Of these, 8,214 were registered on Sep 20, 2026, 10,732 on Sep 19, 2026.
- Spaceship: 4,019 (21.1%)
- godaddy.com: 3,499 (18.4%)
- Dynadot: 2,356 (12.4%)
- Namesilo: 2,321 (12.2%)
- Gname: 946 (5.0%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 7.4 avg length | 24.4% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.1%) | 2-5 years (0.7%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (22.1%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 24.4% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: start-voice01-e663con-listen22note.top (34 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 1pj.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: osiranew.top
- Listed for sale: cloudhost.top
.online, 13,371 domains
We discovered 13,371 .online domains in today’s report, a 8.2% decrease from yesterday’s 14,570. Of these, 7,065 were registered on Sep 20, 2026, 6,019 on Sep 19, 2026.
- Namecheap: 3,136 (23.5%)
- Hostinger: 2,164 (16.2%)
- Godaddy: 1,473 (11.0%)
- Reg: 1,080 (8.1%)
- Spaceship: 536 (4.0%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.5 avg length | 77.8% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (98.4%) | 2-5 years (1.5%) | >5 years (0.0%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (23.2%) | Vercel (1.0%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (1.0%) | Squarespace (0.1%) | Afternic (0.4%) | Sedo (0.1%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: accountsworkspace-googleverificationsecuredsystemsaverportal.online (60 chars)
- Shortest SLD: sou.online (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: bahinet.online
- Listed for sale: werent.online
.net, 13,292 domains
We discovered 13,292 .net domains in today’s report, a 20.7% decrease from yesterday’s 16,767. Of these, 2 were registered on Sep 20, 2026, 5,551 on Sep 19, 2026.
- Godaddy: 2,453 (18.5%)
- Namecheap: 1,051 (7.9%)
- Cloudflare: 991 (7.5%)
- Dynadot: 861 (6.5%)
- Namebright: 804 (6.0%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.3 avg length | 77.2% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (92.5%) | 2-5 years (7.1%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (26.6%) | Vercel (0.2%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (2.8%) | Squarespace (5.5%) | Afternic (0.2%)
Anomaly signal: Only 2 domains registered on Sep 20, 2026 appears in today’s sample, compared with 5,551 from Sep 19, 2026. This indicates a delay in zone file updates from the registry, not an actual drop in registrations.
Examples
- Longest SLD: representingmalowayeliasoninsuranceagenciestravelcentreltd.net (58 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 5m2.net (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: dbmjw.net
- Listed for sale: museads.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 21, 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.