We discovered 473,110 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 451,669 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 538 gTLDs. This is 33.0% lower than yesterday’s Oct 01, 2026 total of 674,221.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 10.7 avg length | 66.8% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (95.5%) | 2-5 years (4.3%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (27.9%) | Vercel (1.0%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.2%) | Squarespace (2.5%) | Afternic (1.9%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (161,469), .top (56,377), .online (20,238).
- .com: 161,469
- .top: 56,377
- .online: 20,238
- .vip: 20,192
- .xyz: 19,547
- .org: 18,058
- .net: 17,468
- .site: 10,289
- .app: 9,951
- .info: 9,721
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 161,469 domains
We discovered 161,469 .com domains in today’s report, a 51.6% decrease from yesterday’s 333,647. Of these, 160,491 were registered on Oct 01, 2026, 207 on Sep 30, 2026.
- Godaddy: 24,559 (15.2%)
- Namecheap: 17,144 (10.6%)
- Cloudflare: 13,976 (8.7%)
- Hostinger: 8,507 (5.3%)
- Squarespace: 8,196 (5.1%)
- Spaceship: 6,759 (4.2%)
- Dynadot: 5,515 (3.4%)
- opusdns gmbh: 5,078 (3.1%)
- Cosmotown: 4,454 (2.8%)
- Porkbun: 4,373 (2.7%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.8 avg length | 80.0% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.3%) | 2-5 years (8.4%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (26.6%) | Vercel (1.0%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (2.4%) | Squarespace (4.9%) | Afternic (1.6%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.4%)
Burst signal: 51.6% day-over-day decrease. With 26.6% on Cloudflare DNS, more of these domains appear directed toward end-user use than resale.
Examples
- Longest SLD: 1-internet-casinos-online-gambling-online-casino-gambling-atlas.com (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: ad-3.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: frosthy.com
- Listed for sale: napihealth.com
.top, 56,377 domains
We discovered 56,377 .top domains in today’s report, a 11.5% decrease from yesterday’s 63,679. Of these, 29,145 were registered on Oct 01, 2026, 25,481 on Sep 30, 2026.
- godaddy.com: 12,809 (22.7%)
- Godaddy: 11,311 (20.1%)
- Alibaba cloud: 6,569 (11.7%)
- Namesilo: 5,821 (10.3%)
- Spaceship: 3,177 (5.6%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 6.9 avg length | 22.4% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.6%) | 2-5 years (0.3%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (13.9%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 22.4% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: master1ngsapcloudteamonlineofficialsecuremailappwebnethqprosupp.top (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 2c7.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: gjjkx.top
- Listed for sale: musehack.top
.online, 20,238 domains
We discovered 20,238 .online domains in today’s report, a 0.6% decrease from yesterday’s 20,357. Of these, 10,129 were registered on Oct 01, 2026, 9,675 on Sep 30, 2026.
- Namecheap: 5,447 (26.9%)
- Hostinger: 2,868 (14.2%)
- Godaddy: 1,601 (7.9%)
- Reg: 1,493 (7.4%)
- Dynadot: 958 (4.7%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.1 avg length | 79.1% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (98.7%) | 2-5 years (1.3%) | >5 years (0.0%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (28.8%) | Vercel (0.7%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (1.1%) | Squarespace (0.1%) | Afternic (0.3%) | Atom.com (0.1%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: 8sr8y4cp6d1bwjwa4qeq2u1p1sdbfkdtper9gxbdmjbkh6r32kffrgsdhsds.online (60 chars)
- Shortest SLD: si.online (2 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: wworkgh.online
- Listed for sale: watchme.online
.vip, 20,192 domains
We discovered 20,192 .vip domains in today’s report, a 32.2% decrease from yesterday’s 29,765. Of these, 3,367 were registered on Oct 01, 2026, 16,755 on Sep 30, 2026.
- Godaddy: 14,418 (71.4%)
- Dynadot: 3,501 (17.3%)
- Gname: 728 (3.6%)
- Namecheap: 386 (1.9%)
- Spaceship: 311 (1.5%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 6.5 avg length | 16.3% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.7%) | 2-5 years (0.3%) | >5 years (0.0%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (9.3%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 16.3% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: ofertaformacaomdemecanicodoseletricos.vip (37 chars)
- Shortest SLD: s-i.vip (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: brunsia.vip
.xyz, 19,547 domains
We discovered 19,547 .xyz domains in today’s report, a 54.3% decrease from yesterday’s 42,805. Of these, 8,670 were registered on Oct 01, 2026, 10,192 on Sep 30, 2026.
- GMO Internet: 5,513 (28.2%)
- Namecheap: 4,554 (23.3%)
- Dynadot: 2,440 (12.5%)
- Godaddy: 1,373 (7.0%)
- Spaceship: 962 (4.9%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 9.0 avg length | 59.7% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.0%) | 2-5 years (0.7%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (19.3%) | Vercel (1.2%) | Squarespace (0.1%) | Afternic (28.1%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.1%)
Burst signal: 54.3% day-over-day decrease. With 28.3% listed for sale, more of these domains appear directed toward resale than end-user use.
Examples
- Longest SLD: xn--tlqs2ff2bh2aca11dd344jmyoe5byybh7lbvcru1ajc2857a749bhvyatnw.xyz (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: u63.xyz (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: quorvela.xyz
- Listed for sale: ftpgen.xyz
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, Oct 02, 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.