Daily Newly Registered Domains Intelligence: 445,589 Discovered Across 491 gTLDs on Oct 22, 2026
We discovered 461,489 newly active domains today. In our verifiable TLDs, 445,589 are confirmed as registered within the past 30 days across 491 gTLDs. This is 3.8% lower than yesterday’s Oct 21, 2026 total of 463,001.
Overall Usage Signals
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.2 avg length | 76.3% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (95.9%) | 2-5 years (3.9%) | >5 years (0.2%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (20.7%) | Vercel (0.9%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (1.0%) | Squarespace (2.0%) | Afternic (27.7%) | Atom.com (0.2%)
TLD Distribution
The top three TLDs today are .com (179,201), .xyz (127,031), .top (13,471).
- .com: 179,201
- .xyz: 127,031
- .top: 13,471
- .online: 9,311
- .org: 8,679
- .net: 8,585
- .lol: 8,477
- .site: 6,901
- .cam: 6,123
- .app: 5,738
Top 5 TLDs: Registrar and Usage Distribution
.com, 179,201 domains
We discovered 179,201 .com domains in today’s report, a 9.5% increase from yesterday’s 163,636. Of these, 176,962 were registered on Oct 21, 2026, 857 on Oct 20, 2026.
- Godaddy: 25,798 (14.4%)
- Alibaba cloud: 19,419 (10.8%)
- Namecheap: 16,174 (9.0%)
- Cloudflare: 15,774 (8.8%)
- Hostinger: 8,681 (4.8%)
- Spaceship: 8,100 (4.5%)
- Squarespace: 7,724 (4.3%)
- GMO Internet: 6,511 (3.6%)
- Dynadot: 5,811 (3.2%)
- Name: 5,634 (3.1%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.2 avg length | 72.9% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (91.7%) | 2-5 years (8.0%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (25.3%) | Vercel (1.4%) | WordPress.com (0.3%) | Wix (2.0%) | Squarespace (4.1%) | Afternic (0.8%) | Atom.com (0.3%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: google-site-verificationitcxfvisilorloqwsrig1khu4o4ukxfcpaj7n8v.com (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: 031w.com (4 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: ohcando.com
- Listed for sale: ncminfer.com
.xyz, 127,031 domains
We discovered 127,031 .xyz domains in today’s report, a 12.2% decrease from yesterday’s 144,602. Of these, 125,634 were registered on Oct 21, 2026, 29 on Oct 20, 2026.
- GMO Internet: 121,538 (95.7%)
- Dynadot: 1,232 (1.0%)
- Namecheap: 987 (0.8%)
- Godaddy: 867 (0.7%)
- Spaceship: 408 (0.3%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 14.3 avg length | 95.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.9%) | 2-5 years (0.1%) | >5 years (0.0%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (1.5%) | Vercel (0.1%) | Afternic (95.6%)
Single-investor signal: GMO Internet accounts for 95.7% of today’s registrations, combined with 95.6% on resale platforms, suggesting likely a single investor. Worth continued monitoring.
TLD opportunity signal: Pure-alphabet share at 95.6% combined with 95.6% on resale platforms suggests this TLD may have promotional or market stimulus driving investment activity. Worth continued monitoring.
Examples
- Longest SLD: accoyntzevicedept01systemettingslogscreationzsatisfaction.xyz (57 chars)
- Shortest SLD: xs.xyz (2 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: becekan.xyz
- Listed for sale: audiolab.xyz
.top, 13,471 domains
We discovered 13,471 .top domains in today’s report, a 18.1% decrease from yesterday’s 16,454. Of these, 13,346 were registered on Oct 21, 2026, 65 on Oct 20, 2026.
- Alibaba cloud: 5,844 (43.4%)
- Spaceship: 1,273 (9.4%)
- Godaddy: 1,198 (8.9%)
- : 1,001 (7.4%)
- Dynadot: 875 (6.5%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 7.8 avg length | 32.6% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (99.0%) | 2-5 years (0.7%) | >5 years (0.3%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (16.9%) | Vercel (0.1%)
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: dfghujiopihguyfdtrsegtdfyugifdc4345637256273.top (44 chars)
- Shortest SLD: hs.top (2 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: sakedewu.top
.online, 9,311 domains
We discovered 9,311 .online domains in today’s report, a 32.5% decrease from yesterday’s 13,785. Of these, 8,951 were registered on Oct 21, 2026, 9 on Oct 20, 2026.
- Namecheap: 1,999 (21.5%)
- Hostinger: 1,339 (14.4%)
- Godaddy: 1,066 (11.4%)
- Reg: 658 (7.1%)
- Dynadot: 481 (5.2%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 11.6 avg length | 79.2% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (98.4%) | 2-5 years (1.6%) | >5 years (0.0%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (24.2%) | Vercel (0.7%) | WordPress.com (0.2%) | Wix (1.3%) | Squarespace (0.1%) | Afternic (0.3%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: google-site-verificationitcxfvisilorloqwsrig1khu4o4ukxfcpaj7n8v.online (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: xs.online (2 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: ubierz.online
- Listed for sale: wallaby.online
.org, 8,679 domains
We discovered 8,679 .org domains in today’s report, a 5.5% decrease from yesterday’s 9,188. Of these, 8,620 were registered on Oct 21, 2026, 2 on Oct 20, 2026.
- Namecheap: 1,325 (15.3%)
- Godaddy: 1,306 (15.0%)
- Cloudflare: 906 (10.4%)
- Spaceship: 699 (8.1%)
- Squarespace: 570 (6.6%)
Usage Signals
- Structure: 12.5 avg length | 84.2% pure-alphabet
- Terms: 1-year (90.4%) | 2-5 years (9.0%) | >5 years (0.5%)
- Ecosystem: Cloudflare (26.7%) | Vercel (0.7%) | WordPress.com (0.7%) | Wix (2.1%) | Squarespace (6.4%) | Afternic (0.4%)
Examples
- Longest SLD: 0oooooooooo0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0oo0o0oo00oo0ooo0oo0o0o0oo0o0oo0.org (63 chars)
- Shortest SLD: x2g.org (3 chars)
- Hosted on Cloudflare: datasynth.org
- Listed for sale: ufaplus.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 22, 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.