We discovered 356,541 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 338,692 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 499 gTLDs. This is 36.6% lower than yesterday’s Sep 22, 2026 total of 533,928.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.3 avg length | 70.8% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (94.6%) | 2-5 years (5.1%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (26.6%) | Vercel (0.8%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.4%) | Squarespace (3.1%) | Afternic (0.6%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (160,008), .top (33,355), .online (20,474).
- .com: 160,008
- .top: 33,355
- .online: 20,474
- .org: 18,611
- .net: 15,027
- .site: 10,953
- .info: 9,946
- .pro: 5,138
- .store: 5,094
- .vip: 4,112
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 160,008 domains
We discovered 160,008 .com domains in today’s report, a 39.1% decrease from yesterday’s 262,820. Of these, 158,374 were registered on Sep 22, 2026, 850 on Sep 21, 2026.
- Godaddy: 24,536 (15.3%)
- Namecheap: 15,886 (9.9%)
- Cloudflare: 11,735 (7.3%)
- Squarespace: 8,303 (5.2%)
- Spaceship: 8,044 (5.0%)
- Alibaba cloud: 7,590 (4.7%)
- Dynadot: 6,791 (4.2%)
- Hostinger: 6,513 (4.1%)
- Namesilo: 5,440 (3.4%)
- Tucows: 4,532 (2.8%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.5 avg length | 79.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.4%) | 2-5 years (8.3%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (24.3%) | Vercel (0.9%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (2.3%) | Squarespace (5.0%) | Afternic (0.9%) | Atom.com (0.4%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: singerstephenmcquadeservantofgodforjesuschristoursaviorspeople.com (62 chars)
- Shortest SLD: v2bf.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: kaelivor.com
- Listed for sale: giftsninja.com
.top, 33,355 domains
We discovered 33,355 .top domains in today’s report, a 6.0% increase from yesterday’s 31,472. Of these, 9,975 were registered on Sep 22, 2026, 23,155 on Sep 21, 2026.
- Godaddy: 14,621 (43.8%)
- Spaceship: 4,558 (13.7%)
- Namesilo: 3,655 (11.0%)
- Dynadot: 2,903 (8.7%)
- Alibaba cloud: 1,714 (5.1%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 6.9 avg length | 18.5% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.4%) | 2-5 years (0.5%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (15.3%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 18.5% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: mega555kf7lsmb54yd6etzglnolhxxi4ytdoma2rf77ngp555hfcnyid.top (56 chars)
- Shortest SLD: hn.top (2 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: djleandro.top
- Listed for sale: kiran.top
.online, 20,474 domains
We discovered 20,474 .online domains in today’s report, a 20.1% increase from yesterday’s 17,046. Of these, 10,361 were registered on Sep 22, 2026, 9,537 on Sep 21, 2026.
- Namecheap: 5,150 (25.2%)
- Hostinger: 2,804 (13.7%)
- Godaddy: 1,946 (9.5%)
- Reg: 1,554 (7.6%)
- Spaceship: 1,144 (5.6%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.0 avg length | 78.7% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (98.8%) | 2-5 years (1.2%) | >5 years (0.0%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (25.4%) | Vercel (0.8%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (0.9%) | Squarespace (0.1%) | Afternic (0.4%) | Sedo (0.1%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: singerstephenmcquademessengerofgodforjesuschristoursavior.online (57 chars)
- Shortest SLD: n2l.online (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: morpholabs.online
- Listed for sale: devweb.online
.org, 18,611 domains
We discovered 18,611 .org domains in today’s report, a 25.1% increase from yesterday’s 14,882. Of these, 9,191 were registered on Sep 22, 2026, 9,314 on Sep 21, 2026.
- Namecheap: 3,002 (16.1%)
- Godaddy: 2,751 (14.8%)
- Cloudflare: 1,589 (8.5%)
- Spaceship: 1,522 (8.2%)
- Squarespace: 1,207 (6.5%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 13.7 avg length | 79.1% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.4%) | 2-5 years (7.9%) | >5 years (0.6%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (30.4%) | Vercel (0.6%) | WordPress.com (0.6%) | Wix (2.0%) | Squarespace (6.4%) | Afternic (0.5%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: rajulakshmipathymantenaanticompetitivepractice.org (46 chars)
- Shortest SLD: h1q.org (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: nqmug.org
- Listed for sale: getfunds.org
.net, 15,027 domains
We discovered 15,027 .net domains in today’s report, a 34.0% increase from yesterday’s 11,216. Of these, 3 were registered on Sep 22, 2026, 9,362 on Sep 21, 2026.
- Godaddy: 2,346 (15.6%)
- : 2,208 (14.7%)
- Namecheap: 1,184 (7.9%)
- Cloudflare: 921 (6.1%)
- Namebright: 813 (5.4%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 10.9 avg length | 80.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (93.4%) | 2-5 years (6.3%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (25.4%) | Vercel (0.3%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (2.4%) | Squarespace (5.0%) | Afternic (0.2%)
Anomaly signal: Only 3 domains registered on Sep 22, 2026 appears in today’s sample, compared with 9,362 from Sep 21, 2026. This indicates a delay in zone file updates from the registry, not an actual drop in registrations.
Examples
- Longest SLD: southern-california-neighborhood-irate-over-repeated-pit.net (56 chars)
- Shortest SLD: k3e.net (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: puncakhoki.net
- Listed for sale: regai.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 23, 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.