We discovered 634,111 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 603,445 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 535 gTLDs. This is 33.6% higher than yesterday’s Oct 02, 2026 total of 451,669.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.3 avg length | 74.5% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (94.5%) | 2-5 years (5.3%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (25.8%) | Vercel (1.0%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (1.5%) | Squarespace (3.1%) | Afternic (9.9%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.3%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (304,071), .xyz (66,099), .top (42,981).
- .com: 304,071
- .xyz: 66,099
- .top: 42,981
- .online: 18,772
- .org: 18,139
- .net: 16,449
- .site: 9,926
- .app: 9,542
- .info: 9,409
- .store: 8,361
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 304,071 domains
We discovered 304,071 .com domains in today’s report, a 88.3% increase from yesterday’s 161,469. Of these, 141,180 were registered on Oct 02, 2026, 160,864 on Oct 01, 2026.
- Godaddy: 46,940 (15.4%)
- Namecheap: 32,166 (10.6%)
- Cloudflare: 27,517 (9.0%)
- Hostinger: 16,371 (5.4%)
- Squarespace: 15,919 (5.2%)
- Spaceship: 12,896 (4.2%)
- Dynadot: 9,337 (3.1%)
- Tucows: 8,421 (2.8%)
- GMO Internet: 8,315 (2.7%)
- Porkbun: 8,095 (2.7%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.7 avg length | 79.8% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.1%) | 2-5 years (8.6%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (25.7%) | Vercel (1.0%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (2.4%) | Squarespace (5.0%) | Afternic (1.3%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.4%)
Burst signal: 88.3% day-over-day increase. With 25.7% on Cloudflare DNS, more of these domains appear directed toward end-user use than resale.
Examples
- Longest SLD: yuioiuytree5tyu0987654356r7890987i6uyertfyuioipuytrxtfcghvjbklk.com (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 5ctl.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: letmeiniam.com
- Listed for sale: baoconnex.com
.xyz, 66,099 domains
We discovered 66,099 .xyz domains in today’s report, a 238.2% increase from yesterday’s 19,547. Of these, 56,827 were registered on Oct 02, 2026, 8,592 on Oct 01, 2026.
- GMO Internet: 55,459 (83.9%)
- Dynadot: 2,408 (3.6%)
- Namecheap: 1,460 (2.2%)
- Godaddy: 1,196 (1.8%)
- Spaceship: 807 (1.2%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 9.6 avg length | 88.1% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.7%) | 2-5 years (0.2%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (5.8%) | Vercel (0.4%) | Afternic (83.8%)
Burst signal: 238.2% day-over-day increase. With 83.8% listed for sale, more of these domains appear directed toward resale than end-user use.
TLD opportunity signal: Pure-alphabet share at 88.1% combined with 83.8% on resale platforms suggests this TLD may have promotional or market stimulus driving investment activity. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: xn--tlqs2ff2bh2aca11dd344jmyoe5byybh7lbvcru1ajc2857a749bhvyatnw.xyz (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: prg.xyz (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: spilker.xyz
- Listed for sale: cutlady.xyz
.top, 42,981 domains
We discovered 42,981 .top domains in today’s report, a 23.8% decrease from yesterday’s 56,377. Of these, 12,966 were registered on Oct 02, 2026, 29,093 on Oct 01, 2026.
- godaddy.com: 12,325 (28.7%)
- Alibaba cloud: 6,405 (14.9%)
- namemart pte. ltd.: 5,463 (12.7%)
- Namesilo: 3,048 (7.1%)
- Spaceship: 2,537 (5.9%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 6.9 avg length | 23.8% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.6%) | 2-5 years (0.3%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (12.5%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 23.8% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: master1ngsapcloudteamonlineofficialsecuremailappwebnethqprosupp.top (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 6jg.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: xipjx.top
- Listed for sale: musehack.top
.online, 18,772 domains
We discovered 18,772 .online domains in today’s report, a 7.2% decrease from yesterday’s 20,238. Of these, 8,718 were registered on Oct 02, 2026, 9,707 on Oct 01, 2026.
- Namecheap: 4,766 (25.4%)
- Hostinger: 2,653 (14.1%)
- Reg: 1,552 (8.3%)
- Godaddy: 1,497 (8.0%)
- Dynadot: 773 (4.1%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.9 avg length | 78.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (98.6%) | 2-5 years (1.4%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (28.2%) | Vercel (0.9%) | WordPress.com (0.1%) | Wix (1.1%) | Squarespace (0.1%) | Afternic (0.3%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: themostamazingandwonderfulplaceontheinternetforeveryone.online (55 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 0ki.online (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: rolber.online
- Listed for sale: connectme.online
.org, 18,139 domains
We discovered 18,139 .org domains in today’s report, a 0.4% increase from yesterday’s 18,058. Of these, 9,063 were registered on Oct 02, 2026, 8,972 on Oct 01, 2026.
- Godaddy: 2,732 (15.1%)
- Namecheap: 2,338 (12.9%)
- Cloudflare: 1,691 (9.3%)
- Squarespace: 1,282 (7.1%)
- Spaceship: 1,107 (6.1%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 13.6 avg length | 79.1% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.9%) | 2-5 years (7.6%) | >5 years (0.5%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (29.6%) | Vercel (0.7%) | WordPress.com (0.7%) | Wix (2.0%) | Squarespace (6.9%) | Afternic (0.5%) | Atom.com (0.1%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: cookies-angels-the-michelle-butler-blue-foundation.org (50 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 3mk.org (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: anigram.org
- Listed for sale: modelsi.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, Oct 03, 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.