Legacy-gTLD renewal rates

Every other page here counts domains. This one asks whether anyone wanted them a second year. Keep rate is the share of domains reaching a renewal decision that were renewed rather than deleted — May 2025 – Apr 2026, from the registries' own monthly reports to ICANN.

New gTLDs Legacy gTLDs All gTLDs

Median legacy gTLD

76.25%

half keep more, half less

.com, .net and .org

73.25%

the legacy benchmark

TLDs measured

at least 1,000 decisions

A keep rate is not a survival rate. A domain registered for three years reaches a decision once, not annually, so a TLD sold on long terms shows fewer renewals and fewer deletions rather than a different ratio. Renewals include auto-renewals, deletions include names dropped in the grace period, and transfers are excluded — a transfer is not a renewal decision, though it often carries one. How this is computed.

683 monthly filings report deleting more domains than the TLD has ever held. Those rates are shown as filed and marked filing, with the figure excluding the impossible month beside them. Nothing is silently dropped.

Showing 17 of 17 TLDs, sorted by keep rate. Every column heading sorts; paging is below.

TLD	Domains	Keep rate	Renewed	Deleted	Decisions
.tel	39,894	99.19%	30,896	253	31,149
.cat	117,609	97.22%	89,705	2,565	92,270
.jobs	10,983	92.23%	9,047	762	9,809
.aero	13,868	90.83%	10,150	1,025	11,175
.xxx	42,938	89.49%	33,085	3,885	36,970
.coop	8,653	88.70%	6,105	778	6,883
.name	98,526	88.05%	77,626	10,539	88,165
.museum	1,163	85.18%	937	163	1,100
.net	12,852,432	76.25%	8,336,401	2,596,662	10,933,063
.travel	27,746	74.41%	16,773	5,769	22,542
.mobi	435,597	74.02%	161,351	56,623	217,974
.com	168,322,419	73.34%	98,331,036	35,748,250	134,079,286
.biz	1,276,515	72.84%	779,582	290,632	1,070,214
.org	12,449,632	69.35%	7,863,820	3,475,034	11,338,854
.info	5,574,394	59.74%	2,163,758	1,458,269	3,622,027
.asia	597,716	35.62%	112,321	202,997	315,318
.pro	1,187,372	30.35%	237,156	544,175	781,331

Data currency. Domain counts on this page are from zone files dated 18 August 2026 and refresh daily. Registrar figures are from ICANN's monthly registry reports for April 2026, which ICANN publishes about three months in arrears; zone files contain no registrar information, so no fresher source exists. Full detail on methodology and live pipeline status.