We discovered 491,102 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 456,170 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 506 gTLDs. This is 18.2% lower than yesterday’s Sep 27, 2026 total of 557,636.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.3 avg length | 74.8% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (95.0%) | 2-5 years (4.8%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (23.9%) | Vercel (1.1%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.3%) | Squarespace (2.7%) | Afternic (11.9%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.3%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (218,704), .xyz (60,787), .top (29,608).
- .com: 218,704
- .xyz: 60,787
- .top: 29,608
- .online: 13,264
- .net: 12,740
- .org: 11,072
- .app: 10,967
- .site: 7,837
- .store: 7,428
- .info: 5,997
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 218,704 domains
We discovered 218,704 .com domains in today’s report, a 11.6% decrease from yesterday’s 247,397. Of these, 105,089 were registered on Sep 27, 2026, 111,919 on Sep 26, 2026.
- Godaddy: 32,196 (14.7%)
- Namecheap: 21,927 (10.0%)
- Cloudflare: 21,361 (9.8%)
- Hostinger: 12,056 (5.5%)
- Spaceship: 10,777 (4.9%)
- Squarespace: 10,393 (4.8%)
- Namesilo: 9,319 (4.3%)
- Dynadot: 8,611 (3.9%)
- Porkbun: 6,084 (2.8%)
- Tucows: 5,865 (2.7%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.2 avg length | 78.0% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.6%) | 2-5 years (8.1%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (24.0%) | Vercel (1.0%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (2.3%) | Squarespace (4.6%) | Afternic (1.2%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.4%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: bdmeducationalservicesbypassroasterpanihaldwanidisttnainital.com (60 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 5td2.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: tokahats.com
- Listed for sale: vaxready.com
.xyz, 60,787 domains
We discovered 60,787 .xyz domains in today’s report, a 40.6% decrease from yesterday’s 102,379. Of these, 5,749 were registered on Sep 27, 2026, 54,515 on Sep 26, 2026.
- GMO Internet: 51,026 (83.9%)
- Dynadot: 2,062 (3.4%)
- Godaddy: 1,673 (2.8%)
- Namecheap: 1,078 (1.8%)
- Alibaba cloud: 877 (1.4%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.7 avg length | 92.1% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.8%) | 2-5 years (0.1%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (5.5%) | Vercel (0.3%) | Afternic (83.9%) | Atom.com (0.1%)
TLD opportunity signal: Pure-alphabet share at 92.1% combined with 84.0% on resale platforms suggests this TLD may have promotional or market stimulus driving investment activity. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: 0x95f3ccbfbaa6ab5aa096230711a34809430b5851.xyz (42 chars)
- Shortest SLD: xs9.xyz (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: onomata.xyz
- Listed for sale: imdeja.xyz
.top, 29,608 domains
We discovered 29,608 .top domains in today’s report, a 14.0% increase from yesterday’s 25,963. Of these, 15,508 were registered on Sep 27, 2026, 13,987 on Sep 26, 2026.
- Alibaba cloud: 8,894 (30.0%)
- Godaddy: 5,738 (19.4%)
- Spaceship: 3,945 (13.3%)
- Namesilo: 3,357 (11.3%)
- : 2,000 (6.8%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 7.5 avg length | 25.3% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.5%) | 2-5 years (0.3%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (22.7%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 25.3% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: hhhfdhdfshh111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111.top (62 chars)
- Shortest SLD: wl1.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: rddbb.top
- Listed for sale: opensi.top
.online, 13,264 domains
We discovered 13,264 .online domains in today’s report, a 12.3% decrease from yesterday’s 15,125. Of these, 6,379 were registered on Sep 27, 2026, 6,573 on Sep 26, 2026.
- Namecheap: 2,392 (18.0%)
- Hostinger: 2,069 (15.6%)
- Godaddy: 1,468 (11.1%)
- Reg: 1,158 (8.7%)
- Dynadot: 849 (6.4%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.4 avg length | 77.3% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (98.5%) | 2-5 years (1.5%) | >5 years (0.0%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (20.7%) | Vercel (0.8%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (1.1%) | Squarespace (0.1%) | Afternic (0.6%) | Atom.com (0.1%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: casos-clinicos-practicos-medicina-urgencias-muye.online (48 chars)
- Shortest SLD: d2a.online (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: bugbw.online
- Listed for sale: appleone.online
.net, 12,740 domains
We discovered 12,740 .net domains in today’s report, a 17.2% decrease from yesterday’s 15,395. Of these, 1 was registered on Sep 27, 2026, 5,476 on Sep 26, 2026.
- Godaddy: 2,227 (17.5%)
- Namecheap: 1,292 (10.1%)
- Cloudflare: 956 (7.5%)
- Namebright: 855 (6.7%)
- Squarespace: 708 (5.6%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.2 avg length | 79.9% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (92.4%) | 2-5 years (7.3%) | >5 years (0.4%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (26.7%) | Vercel (0.4%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (3.2%) | Squarespace (5.3%) | Afternic (0.4%) | Atom.com (0.1%)
Anomaly signal: Only 1 domain registered on Sep 27, 2026 appears in today’s sample, compared with 5,476 from Sep 26, 2026. This indicates a delay in zone file updates from the registry, not an actual drop in registrations.
Examples
- Longest SLD: keeping-students-safe-in-the-digital-classroom.net (46 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 9vo.net (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: elfnote.net
- Listed for sale: goldboss.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 28, 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.