This week in domain intelligence:
- The single-registrar surge in one alternative extension, which had stopped a week earlier, resumed mid-week on a different marketplace’s nameservers.
- The largest keyword moves are sets of look-alike names built around one name and registered in near-equal daily blocks across several registrars.
- A national election left a small mark on the record, most of it registered after the vote.
- The week’s largest reported prices came from private sales and a company filing with no platform named; the ranked table is led by names outside the largest extension.
- A commerce platform’s quarterly filing pointed to the price of a domain it bought in September, and a registrar group reported lower domain revenue.
Domain Registration Intelligence
Weekly Registration Overview
New registrations for November 2 to 8, 2026, compared with October 26 to November 1. Data available as of November 11. Source: DomainKits TLD Trends.
| TLD | Nov 2-8 total | Daily avg | Oct 26-Nov 1 total | Daily avg | Daily avg change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| .com | 1,030,054 | 147,151 | 1,072,872 | 153,267 | -6,116 |
| .org | 60,318 | 8,617 | 56,656 | 8,094 | +523 |
| .net | 52,174 | 7,453 | 51,252 | 7,322 | +131 |
| .app | 34,515 | 4,931 | 34,042 | 4,863 | +68 |
| .dev | 10,711 | 1,530 | 10,647 | 1,521 | +9 |
| .xyz | 203,234 | 29,033 | 53,114 | 7,588 | +21,445 |
The .xyz surge through Onamae.com resumed on November 5. The registrar registered 135,552 .xyz names in the four days to November 8 (DomainKits NRDS), against 9,980 in the previous week; 135,524 of them are delegated to Sedo’s parking nameservers, and 51,719 of the 135,552 contain a digit. Two one-day blocks came first: 4,349 nine-digit names through Dynadot on one placeholder nameserver pair on November 3 and 13,507 names through GoDaddy on Afternic’s nameservers on November 4. Of the other five extensions only .com fell.
Hot Keywords
Weekly counts from October 12 to November 8, 2026. Pure-letter .com registrations only. Among the twenty highest-volume keywords, the table shows the two largest weekly gainers and three largest decliners by percentage. Source: DomainKits Trends.
| Keyword | Oct 12-18 | Oct 19-25 | Oct 26-Nov 1 | Nov 2-8 | W-o-W |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| solutions | 3,645 | 3,449 | 3,297 | 3,494 | +6.0% |
| try | 3,374 | 3,463 | 3,364 | 3,499 | +4.0% |
| lab | 3,413 | 3,199 | 3,373 | 3,023 | -10.4% |
| my | 7,126 | 6,956 | 7,397 | 6,665 | -9.9% |
| hub | 3,610 | 3,901 | 3,857 | 3,491 | -9.5% |
Four of the twenty rose. The three decliners each ended below the three earlier weeks shown, “my” after leading last issue’s gainers; “capital” held at 1,865 against 1,886.
Emerging .com Keywords
The table lists the five largest emerging keywords. Each had at least 100 registrations this week and a count at least double its average for the previous three weeks; the average is shown rounded and vs. avg uses the unrounded value. Pure-letter .com registrations only, deduplicated by domain, with stop words and words bound to a fixed phrase left out. Source: DomainKits NRDS.
| Keyword | Prior 3-week avg | Report week | vs. avg | Peak day share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pinpoint | 35 | 575 | +1,527% | 32% |
| register | 69 | 189 | +173% | 74% |
| patrol | 54 | 186 | +247% | 82% |
| nonstop | 32 | 182 | +463% | 52% |
| aussie | 67 | 157 | +133% | 48% |
One name, many variants
“pinpoint” is one name multiplied: 568 of the 575 domains put a short word before and after it (firstpinpointnetwork, dailypinpointspot, openpinpointcare). Most arrived on November 3, 4 and 5 in near-equal daily blocks through four registrars, 46 to 48 names a day each at NameSilo, Porkbun and Spaceship and 33 to 44 at Dynadot, with 26 more on November 6.
“patrol” and “nonstop” are the same construction: 146 names around patrol and patrolapp through Porkbun on November 2 (teampatrolapp, patrolappflow), and 170 around nonstopautomation through Cloudflare’s registrar on one Cloudflare pair on November 3 and 5 (nonstopautomationusa, simplynonstopautomation). “register” and “aussie” are a different template, a list of gambling-site names with one word attached: 130 names that put a betting-site name in front of register, through one registrar on one Cloudflare pair on November 6, and 65 names ending in aussiecasino through another registrar on another pair on November 2. That registrar and pair registered 363 .com names in the week, most of them the same casino template with Dutch, Swedish and German country words.
Event check
The week’s largest outside event was the US midterm elections on November 3 (ABC News). Its mark on the record is small and came mostly after the vote: of the 168 names carrying “senator”, “ballot” or “election”, 139 were registered from November 4 to 8. “senator” appeared in 52 pure-letter .com names against 7 the week before, 34 of them on November 5 and built as senator plus a name (senatorglanville, senatorhoskins); “ballot” appeared in 72 against 38, 36 of them on one Cloudflare pair on November 7 and built as a state plus ballot (nvballot, virginiaballot); “election” itself appeared in 44 against 33, and “vote” in 182 against 158. None of the three reached the table’s threshold of 100, and across all tracked extensions their pure-letter counts are 62, 88 and 67 names.
Follow-up from last week
Last issue’s templates fell back: “garage” to 729 names from 1,824 and “chimney” to 206 from 577, and the NameSilo Cloudflare pair that carried both sets added none. The October 31 shop-name block did not recur (“liquors” 12 names from 383), and the Porkbun debt and lien set fell back as well, to 148 names from 722 and 59 from 532. “artie” and “wiley” stopped at 2 and 17 names, while the Cloudflare pair that carried them brought a third word, “pushly”, with 40. “binance” fell to 15 names from 35.
Registration data reflects observed patterns in newly registered domain names and does not constitute investment advice. Individual registrant intent cannot be confirmed from registration data alone.
Domain Trading Intelligence
Selected Sales
The five highest-priced sales listed in the daily sales reports for November 2 to 8 with a named platform and a registry record consistent with the report.
| Domain | Price | Platform | Daily report date |
|---|---|---|---|
| disco.ai | $112,000 | Fruits.co | Nov 6 |
| open.bot | $111,000 | Spaceship | Nov 8 |
| lambda.si | $100,000 | Atom | Nov 2 |
| ash.ai | $75,000 | Atom | Nov 5 |
| skydrop.ai | $53,995 | Afternic | Nov 6 |
Six reported sales priced above the fifth row are not ranked. The seller of tokens.com received its $5,000,000 on October 23, before the week, according to its quarterly filing (Neighborhood Intelligence 10-Q); epidemic.com at $1,000,000 and anna.ai at $350,000 were reported by their sellers with no platform named; dailyhealth.com at $250,000, resu.com at $99,999 and linkland.com at $80,000 show no registry change in the week or after the report. disco.ai was created in 2017 and open.bot in 2023; neither buyer has been publicly disclosed.
Industry News
Shopify’s filing points to $99 million for shop.com. Shopify’s quarterly report, filed on November 3, shows $99 million used for the acquisition of intangible assets in the third quarter (Shopify 10-Q). The filing does not name the asset. Shopify acquired shop.com in late September, and Domain Name Wire and DNJournal read the line as the domain’s price; DNJournal lists it as the largest publicly reported domain sale on record.
Tucows reports its third quarter. Tucows said on November 5 that revenue at Tucows Domain Services was $63.9 million against $67.8 million a year earlier (Tucows release). The company also lowered its guidance for the domains business, citing a smaller contribution from expired-domain sales (Domain Name Wire, November 6).
Premium Domain Intelligence
Selected .com expirations detected from November 2 to 8 by DomainKits Changes Monitor.
Notable Expirations
The five oldest domains, by original creation date, among this week’s five- to ten-letter expirations still using expiry-hold nameservers on November 11, excluding expirations reported in an earlier issue. A .com expiration date automatically advances by a year at the registry, so the date alone does not confirm renewal.
| Domain | Length | Original creation year | Registrar | Detected |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| lifeagent.com | 9L | 1995 | Network Solutions | Nov 4 |
| devair.com | 6L | 1996 | PublicDomainRegistry | Nov 6 |
| sourceon.com | 8L | 1997 | Network Solutions | Nov 7 |
| comeva.com | 6L | 1997 | PublicDomainRegistry | Nov 6 |
| buymicro.com | 8L | 1998 | PublicDomainRegistry | Nov 2 |
The five remain on their registrars’ expiry-hold nameservers with no redemption or pending-delete status, and registrants can typically still renew at this stage. Two names of similar age were past it on November 11: labvision.com (1995) and smartsense.com (1996) carried pending delete status, the registry’s final stage before release.
Names Followed From Earlier Issues
- greaton.com. The nameservers left the registrar’s expiry set for Afternic’s on November 7 with the registrar unchanged and the status active.
Weekly Insight
This week’s spikes are again registrations made in blocks, of a different kind from last week’s town-by-town templates: one name multiplied into dozens or hundreds of variants within a few days, at fourteen of the 26 keywords that met the rule. The week’s national election, by contrast, left a few dozen names each for senator, ballot and election, most of them after the vote. Search the week’s names in DomainKits NRDS.
Method Notes
- Counts. Daily trend series for the overview, prior week recomputed; keyword counts word-based, pure-letter .com, deduplicated by domain.
- Sales. Named platform and a registry record change inside the week or after the report; batch-list sales dated by that change.
- Dates. Expirations detected November 2 to 8; sale dates as listed in the daily reports; registry records checked November 11.
Data Sources: Sales: collected public reports; the selected table identifies the platform named in each report. Registration and trend data: DomainKits. Domain changes: DomainKits Changes. For reference only, not investment advice.
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