Daily Newly Registered Domains Intelligence: 464,582 Discovered Across 489 gTLDs on Oct 16, 2026
We discovered 481,746 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 464,582 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 489 gTLDs. This is 26.9% higher than yesterday’s Oct 15, 2026 total of 366,241.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.0 avg length | 81.1% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (96.3%) | 2-5 years (3.5%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (19.9%) | Vercel (0.7%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (0.9%) | Squarespace (2.0%) | Afternic (34.8%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (170,108), .xyz (166,674), .top (17,840).
- .com: 170,108
- .xyz: 166,674
- .top: 17,840
- .online: 9,534
- .org: 9,130
- .net: 8,461
- .site: 7,463
- .lol: 5,759
- .info: 5,459
- .app: 5,302
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 170,108 domains
We discovered 170,108 .com domains in today’s report, a 4.3% increase from yesterday’s 163,149. Of these, 167,541 were registered on Oct 15, 2026, 2,077 on Oct 14, 2026.
- Godaddy: 21,964 (12.9%)
- Namecheap: 17,006 (10.0%)
- Cloudflare: 15,913 (9.4%)
- Spaceship: 10,168 (6.0%)
- Alibaba cloud: 10,150 (6.0%)
- Hostinger: 8,274 (4.9%)
- Squarespace: 7,988 (4.7%)
- Porkbun: 4,765 (2.8%)
- GMO Internet: 4,708 (2.8%)
- Tucows: 4,432 (2.6%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.5 avg length | 78.4% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.8%) | 2-5 years (7.8%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (27.6%) | Vercel (1.1%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (2.0%) | Squarespace (4.5%) | Afternic (1.0%) | Atom.com (0.3%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: chrisandersonandassociatesllcdbaaphroditeaestheticswellness.com (59 chars)
- Shortest SLD: n54h.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: candymora.com
- Listed for sale: vortexlens.com
.xyz, 166,674 domains
We discovered 166,674 .xyz domains in today’s report, a 173.9% increase from yesterday’s 60,859. Of these, 164,825 were registered on Oct 15, 2026, 373 on Oct 14, 2026.
- GMO Internet: 161,602 (97.0%)
- Namecheap: 884 (0.5%)
- Dynadot: 633 (0.4%)
- Godaddy: 616 (0.4%)
- Spaceship: 406 (0.2%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.7 avg length | 95.7% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.9%) | 2-5 years (0.0%) | >5 years (0.0%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (2.0%) | Vercel (0.1%) | Afternic (95.9%)
Burst signal: 173.9% day-over-day increase. With 95.9% listed for sale, more of these domains appear directed toward resale than end-user use.
Single-investor signal: GMO Internet accounts for 97.0% of today’s registrations, combined with 95.9% on resale platforms, suggesting likely a single investor. Worth continued monitoring.
TLD opportunity signal: Pure-alphabet share at 95.7% combined with 95.9% on resale platforms suggests this TLD may have promotional or market stimulus driving investment activity. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: sparklehousecleaningservicesrichmondhill.xyz (40 chars)
- Shortest SLD: ta1.xyz (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: advorozo.xyz
- Listed for sale: palmlab.xyz
.top, 17,840 domains
We discovered 17,840 .top domains in today’s report, a 35.2% decrease from yesterday’s 27,540. Of these, 17,729 were registered on Oct 15, 2026, 39 on Oct 14, 2026.
- namemart pte. ltd.: 5,361 (30.1%)
- Alibaba cloud: 4,539 (25.4%)
- Spaceship: 1,771 (9.9%)
- : 1,501 (8.4%)
- Dynadot: 1,202 (6.7%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 7.1 avg length | 32.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.4%) | 2-5 years (0.5%) | >5 years (0.1%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (13.7%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 32.6% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: aid-from-serv1ces-aiihere183847363810937742783747.top (49 chars)
- Shortest SLD: as4.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: abotomo.top
.online, 9,534 domains
We discovered 9,534 .online domains in today’s report, a 7.5% decrease from yesterday’s 10,306. Of these, 9,162 were registered on Oct 15, 2026, 15 on Oct 14, 2026.
- Namecheap: 2,049 (21.5%)
- Hostinger: 1,557 (16.3%)
- Godaddy: 883 (9.3%)
- Reg: 578 (6.1%)
- Spaceship: 349 (3.7%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.6 avg length | 80.4% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (98.1%) | 2-5 years (1.8%) | >5 years (0.0%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (24.6%) | Vercel (1.0%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (1.3%) | Squarespace (0.1%) | Afternic (0.2%) | Sedo (0.1%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: 6000000figureitup-out-at-there-that-those-with-you-an-yourself.online (62 chars)
- Shortest SLD: c4d.online (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: nodirbek.online
- Listed for sale: autopass.online
.org, 9,130 domains
We discovered 9,130 .org domains in today’s report, a 7.7% decrease from yesterday’s 9,893. Of these, 9,069 were registered on Oct 15, 2026, 3 on Oct 14, 2026.
- Namecheap: 1,276 (14.0%)
- Godaddy: 1,211 (13.3%)
- Cloudflare: 883 (9.7%)
- Dynadot: 641 (7.0%)
- Squarespace: 594 (6.5%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 13.1 avg length | 78.1% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.2%) | 2-5 years (8.1%) | >5 years (0.7%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (32.4%) | Vercel (0.8%) | WordPress.com (0.7%) | Wix (2.1%) | Squarespace (6.3%) | Afternic (0.5%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: protectingaccesstonutritionindialysisassociation.org (48 chars)
- Shortest SLD: x1o.org (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: planaiv.org
- Listed for sale: fulltext.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 16, 2026.
- Daily Top gTLD Rankings by active domain count: Top gTLDs.
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 ABTdomain Daily JSON.