We discovered 639,305 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 609,841 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 540 gTLDs. This is 80.1% higher than yesterday’s Sep 23, 2026 total of 338,692.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.5 avg length | 75.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (94.5%) | 2-5 years (5.3%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (25.5%) | Vercel (0.9%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.5%) | Squarespace (3.1%) | Afternic (8.1%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (314,767), .xyz (51,160), .top (27,067).
- .com: 314,767
- .xyz: 51,160
- .top: 27,067
- .online: 20,636
- .org: 18,407
- .net: 18,205
- .site: 10,959
- .info: 10,049
- .store: 9,966
- .biz: 9,402
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 314,767 domains
We discovered 314,767 .com domains in today’s report, a 96.7% increase from yesterday’s 160,008. Of these, 153,455 were registered on Sep 23, 2026, 158,931 on Sep 22, 2026.
- Godaddy: 50,708 (16.1%)
- Namecheap: 31,967 (10.2%)
- Cloudflare: 24,218 (7.7%)
- Squarespace: 16,246 (5.2%)
- Spaceship: 14,488 (4.6%)
- Dynadot: 14,238 (4.5%)
- Alibaba cloud: 13,416 (4.3%)
- Hostinger: 13,413 (4.3%)
- Namesilo: 10,862 (3.5%)
- Tucows: 8,759 (2.8%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.5 avg length | 79.0% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.2%) | 2-5 years (8.5%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (24.4%) | Vercel (0.9%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (2.4%) | Squarespace (5.0%) | Afternic (1.4%) | Atom.com (0.4%)
Burst signal: 96.7% day-over-day increase. With 24.4% on Cloudflare DNS, more of these domains appear directed toward end-user use than resale.
Examples
- Longest SLD: singerstephenmcquadeservantofgodforjesuschristoursaviorspeople.com (62 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 9no.com (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: inmous.com
- Listed for sale: riskssi.com
.xyz, 51,160 domains
We discovered 51,160 .xyz domains in today’s report. Of these, 1,580 were registered on Sep 23, 2026, 49,485 on Sep 22, 2026.
- GMO Internet: 44,224 (86.4%)
- Godaddy: 1,186 (2.3%)
- Namecheap: 1,053 (2.1%)
- Dynadot: 1,014 (2.0%)
- Alibaba cloud: 796 (1.6%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.8 avg length | 95.3% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.7%) | 2-5 years (0.2%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (5.3%) | Vercel (0.4%) | Afternic (86.4%) | Atom.com (0.1%)
Anomaly signal: Only 1,580 domains registered on Sep 23, 2026 appears in today’s sample, compared with 49,485 from Sep 22, 2026. This indicates a delay in zone file updates from the registry, not an actual drop in registrations.
TLD opportunity signal: Pure-alphabet share at 95.3% combined with 86.5% on resale platforms suggests this TLD may have promotional or market stimulus driving investment activity. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: xn--halfevwjekqkvweleklbwndilnklndwi-z9fk.xyz (41 chars)
- Shortest SLD: xy3.xyz (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: uehda.xyz
- Listed for sale: orchardmcp.xyz
.top, 27,067 domains
We discovered 27,067 .top domains in today’s report, a 18.9% decrease from yesterday’s 33,355. Of these, 17,010 were registered on Sep 23, 2026, 9,835 on Sep 22, 2026.
- namemart pte. ltd.: 8,413 (31.1%)
- Spaceship: 4,145 (15.3%)
- Namesilo: 3,866 (14.3%)
- Dynadot: 3,737 (13.8%)
- Gname: 1,089 (4.0%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 7.3 avg length | 29.4% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.3%) | 2-5 years (0.5%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (21.2%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 29.4% 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: cdqul.top
- Listed for sale: aito.top
.online, 20,636 domains
We discovered 20,636 .online domains in today’s report, a 0.8% increase from yesterday’s 20,474. Of these, 10,179 were registered on Sep 23, 2026, 9,967 on Sep 22, 2026.
- Namecheap: 5,043 (24.4%)
- Hostinger: 2,946 (14.3%)
- Godaddy: 2,036 (9.9%)
- Reg: 1,648 (8.0%)
- Dynadot: 1,211 (5.9%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.8 avg length | 78.5% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (98.7%) | 2-5 years (1.3%) | >5 years (0.0%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (26.6%) | Vercel (1.2%) | WordPress.com (0.1%) | Wix (0.9%) | Squarespace (0.2%) | Afternic (0.3%) | Sedo (0.1%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: singerstephenmcquademessengerofgodforjesuschristoursavior.online (57 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 1ic.online (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: nonz.online
- Listed for sale: myfuture.online
.org, 18,407 domains
We discovered 18,407 .org domains in today’s report, a 1.1% decrease from yesterday’s 18,611. Of these, 9,183 were registered on Sep 23, 2026, 9,136 on Sep 22, 2026.
- Godaddy: 2,915 (15.8%)
- Namecheap: 2,557 (13.9%)
- Cloudflare: 1,564 (8.5%)
- Spaceship: 1,373 (7.5%)
- Dynadot: 1,297 (7.0%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 13.6 avg length | 77.1% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.2%) | 2-5 years (8.2%) | >5 years (0.6%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (31.2%) | Vercel (0.8%) | WordPress.com (0.6%) | Wix (2.0%) | Squarespace (6.8%) | Afternic (0.4%) | Sedo (0.1%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: provenance-bound-evidence-state-compiler-world999-labs.org (54 chars)
- Shortest SLD: j92.org (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: encontrate.org
- Listed for sale: iconsqatar.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 24, 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.