We discovered 575,515 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 533,928 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 550 gTLDs. This is 8.1% higher than yesterday’s Sep 21, 2026 total of 494,143.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.4 avg length | 72.9% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (95.1%) | 2-5 years (4.7%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (23.1%) | Vercel (0.8%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.3%) | Squarespace (2.8%) | Afternic (10.1%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.3%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (262,820), .xyz (56,246), .top (31,472).
- .com: 262,820
- .xyz: 56,246
- .top: 31,472
- .online: 17,046
- .org: 14,882
- .cyou: 11,820
- .net: 11,216
- .site: 10,248
- .store: 8,883
- .info: 7,524
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 262,820 domains
We discovered 262,820 .com domains in today’s report, a 19.4% increase from yesterday’s 220,072. Of these, 152,521 were registered on Sep 21, 2026, 108,364 on Sep 20, 2026.
- Godaddy: 36,790 (14.0%)
- Namecheap: 25,741 (9.8%)
- Cloudflare: 20,738 (7.9%)
- Cosmotown: 15,301 (5.8%)
- Squarespace: 12,835 (4.9%)
- Alibaba cloud: 11,094 (4.2%)
- Hostinger: 10,662 (4.1%)
- Spaceship: 10,597 (4.0%)
- Dynadot: 9,043 (3.4%)
- Namesilo: 8,966 (3.4%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.3 avg length | 77.3% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.7%) | 2-5 years (8.0%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (23.7%) | Vercel (0.8%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (2.2%) | Squarespace (4.7%) | Afternic (1.2%) | Atom.com (0.4%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: google-site-verificationi1fmsy1min36k8djyvfw3qswweihevjndt2lewj.com (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 6h7.com (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: cheaparkg.com
- Listed for sale: everquad.com
.xyz, 56,246 domains
We discovered 56,246 .xyz domains in today’s report, a 49.3% decrease from yesterday’s 110,888. Of these, 56,172 were registered on Sep 21, 2026, 51 on Sep 20, 2026.
- GMO Internet: 50,274 (89.4%)
- Namecheap: 981 (1.7%)
- Godaddy: 834 (1.5%)
- Spaceship: 805 (1.4%)
- Dynadot: 657 (1.2%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.9 avg length | 96.0% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.8%) | 2-5 years (0.1%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (3.6%) | Vercel (0.3%) | Afternic (89.3%) | Atom.com (0.1%)
TLD opportunity signal: Pure-alphabet share at 96.0% combined with 89.4% on resale platforms suggests this TLD may have promotional or market stimulus driving investment activity. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: xn--77-3qia2fbmg1b4abjjc7im5afbap9cde2a6nb9s4dqf7a4g.xyz (52 chars)
- Shortest SLD: aa6.xyz (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: pipovega.xyz
- Listed for sale: mychannel.xyz
.top, 31,472 domains
We discovered 31,472 .top domains in today’s report, a 65.6% increase from yesterday’s 19,010. Of these, 23,194 were registered on Sep 21, 2026, 8,192 on Sep 20, 2026.
- Godaddy: 14,867 (47.2%)
- Spaceship: 4,452 (14.1%)
- Dynadot: 2,502 (7.9%)
- Namesilo: 2,202 (7.0%)
- Alibaba cloud: 1,767 (5.6%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 6.8 avg length | 15.5% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.3%) | 2-5 years (0.5%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (12.3%)
Burst signal: 65.6% day-over-day increase. With 12.3% on Cloudflare DNS, more of these domains appear directed toward end-user use than resale.
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 15.5% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: xn--22rsmap-tp4kfd355dlramb368gs90kd1wcx4o.top (42 chars)
- Shortest SLD: bt7.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: qyyzsmod.top
- Listed for sale: cloudhost.top
.online, 17,046 domains
We discovered 17,046 .online domains in today’s report, a 27.5% increase from yesterday’s 13,371. Of these, 9,843 were registered on Sep 21, 2026, 6,810 on Sep 20, 2026.
- Namecheap: 4,690 (27.5%)
- Hostinger: 2,376 (13.9%)
- Godaddy: 1,703 (10.0%)
- Reg: 1,268 (7.4%)
- Spaceship: 634 (3.7%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.9 avg length | 79.0% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (98.7%) | 2-5 years (1.3%) | >5 years (0.0%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (25.1%) | Vercel (0.9%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (1.0%) | Squarespace (0.1%) | Afternic (0.5%) | Sedo (0.1%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: accountsystexxtigfsuitaminmxsecureconfigurationsecured.online (54 chars)
- Shortest SLD: sou.online (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: vitalmente.online
- Listed for sale: airmax.online
.org, 14,882 domains
We discovered 14,882 .org domains in today’s report, a 36.4% increase from yesterday’s 10,911. Of these, 9,347 were registered on Sep 21, 2026, 5,441 on Sep 20, 2026.
- Namecheap: 2,469 (16.6%)
- Godaddy: 2,062 (13.9%)
- Cloudflare: 1,414 (9.5%)
- Spaceship: 1,409 (9.5%)
- Squarespace: 1,004 (6.7%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 13.3 avg length | 82.7% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.9%) | 2-5 years (7.6%) | >5 years (0.5%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (28.8%) | Vercel (0.8%) | WordPress.com (0.7%) | Wix (2.2%) | Squarespace (6.6%) | Afternic (0.6%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: thexn--bdk8bb6fc6c1651bq4hpqj7zht80er0vach3byliup8a.org (51 chars)
- Shortest SLD: zc3.org (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: dhgroups.org
- Listed for sale: metajev.org
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 22, 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.