Daily Newly Registered Domains Intelligence: 470,242 Discovered Across 503 gTLDs on Oct 17, 2026
We discovered 486,298 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 470,242 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 503 gTLDs. This is 1.2% higher than yesterday’s Oct 16, 2026 total of 464,582.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.8 avg length | 80.7% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (96.5%) | 2-5 years (3.4%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (19.3%) | Vercel (0.7%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (0.9%) | Squarespace (1.8%) | Afternic (36.1%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .xyz (173,389), .com (160,391), .top (18,454).
- .xyz: 173,389
- .com: 160,391
- .top: 18,454
- .online: 9,235
- .org: 8,985
- .net: 8,242
- .vip: 6,755
- .site: 6,247
- .app: 6,156
- .cam: 5,941
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.xyz, 173,389 domains
We discovered 173,389 .xyz domains in today’s report, a 4.0% increase from yesterday’s 166,674. Of these, 173,340 were registered on Oct 16, 2026, 25 on Oct 15, 2026.
- GMO Internet: 168,148 (97.0%)
- Dynadot: 1,161 (0.7%)
- Godaddy: 786 (0.5%)
- Namecheap: 717 (0.4%)
- Spaceship: 487 (0.3%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.9 avg length | 98.2% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.9%) | 2-5 years (0.0%) | >5 years (0.0%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (1.2%) | Vercel (0.1%) | Afternic (96.9%)
Single-investor signal: GMO Internet accounts for 97.0% of today’s registrations, combined with 96.9% on resale platforms, suggesting likely a single investor. Worth continued monitoring.
TLD opportunity signal: Pure-alphabet share at 98.2% combined with 96.9% on resale platforms suggests this TLD may have promotional or market stimulus driving investment activity. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: services-notification-security-authentication-session.xyz (53 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 9l9.xyz (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: mediacove.xyz
- Listed for sale: assort.xyz
.com, 160,391 domains
We discovered 160,391 .com domains in today’s report, a 5.7% decrease from yesterday’s 170,108. Of these, 159,422 were registered on Oct 16, 2026, 272 on Oct 15, 2026.
- Godaddy: 23,648 (14.7%)
- Namecheap: 15,217 (9.5%)
- Cloudflare: 14,892 (9.3%)
- Spaceship: 8,878 (5.5%)
- Hostinger: 7,439 (4.6%)
- Squarespace: 7,127 (4.4%)
- GMO Internet: 6,764 (4.2%)
- Alibaba cloud: 6,212 (3.9%)
- Dynadot: 5,636 (3.5%)
- Porkbun: 4,604 (2.9%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.4 avg length | 78.4% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.7%) | 2-5 years (8.0%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (24.7%) | Vercel (1.1%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (2.0%) | Squarespace (4.2%) | Afternic (1.0%) | Sedo (0.1%) | Atom.com (0.4%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: dmdrxjusc2gnq298zhoqhfma0ia2zemqhqpbcsxdxi0fiosr9qbqze1mljm2ich.com (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: t9e9.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: apogatto.com
- Listed for sale: ekalm.com
.top, 18,454 domains
We discovered 18,454 .top domains in today’s report, a 3.4% increase from yesterday’s 17,840. Of these, 17,215 were registered on Oct 16, 2026, 26 on Oct 15, 2026.
- Alibaba cloud: 6,380 (34.6%)
- : 3,500 (19.0%)
- Namesilo: 3,383 (18.3%)
- Spaceship: 1,396 (7.6%)
- Dynadot: 1,197 (6.5%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 7.9 avg length | 38.5% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.3%) | 2-5 years (0.5%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (21.0%) | Atom.com (0.1%)
Low alpha signal: Pure-alphabet share at 38.5% is below the typical range. This batch of registrations warrants continued attention. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: voicemsg3fn2vxc51jconnectgsvoicesystem.top (38 chars)
- Shortest SLD: qj6.top (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: atxlfv.top
- Listed for sale: paysi.top
.online, 9,235 domains
We discovered 9,235 .online domains in today’s report, a 3.1% decrease from yesterday’s 9,534. Of these, 8,963 were registered on Oct 16, 2026, 16 on Oct 15, 2026.
- Namecheap: 2,054 (22.2%)
- Hostinger: 1,343 (14.5%)
- Godaddy: 1,050 (11.4%)
- Reg: 587 (6.4%)
- Spaceship: 532 (5.8%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.6 avg length | 81.1% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (98.2%) | 2-5 years (1.8%) | >5 years (0.0%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (24.5%) | Vercel (0.9%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (1.3%) | Squarespace (0.1%) | Afternic (0.3%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: nolanguagenoticiasisraeljudeogitanonomadepartygypsyparty.online (56 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 6mi.online (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: soldto.online
- Listed for sale: goenergy.online
.org, 8,985 domains
We discovered 8,985 .org domains in today’s report, a 1.6% decrease from yesterday’s 9,130. Of these, 8,907 were registered on Oct 16, 2026, 24 on Oct 15, 2026.
- Godaddy: 1,307 (14.5%)
- Namecheap: 1,132 (12.6%)
- Spaceship: 880 (9.8%)
- Cloudflare: 842 (9.4%)
- Dynadot: 704 (7.8%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 13.2 avg length | 80.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.2%) | 2-5 years (8.4%) | >5 years (0.4%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (27.8%) | Vercel (0.8%) | WordPress.com (0.5%) | Wix (2.0%) | Squarespace (7.4%) | Afternic (0.5%) | Atom.com (0.1%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: oasisworshipcenterinterdenominationalministriesfellowship.org (57 chars)
- Shortest SLD: pg8.org (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: vibemade.org
- Listed for sale: arctek.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 17, 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.