.bible

1,465 domains as of 19 Aug 2026

Domains
1,465
19 Aug 2026
30-day change
Signed in root
✔ Yes
DS record present
Type
Generic
ASCII
Registrar figures are for November 2025. ICANN publishes monthly registry reports about three months in arrears, and they are the only source that attributes domains to registrars — zone files do not contain registrar information. Methodology.

Registry details

From the IANA Root Zone Database and RDAP bootstrap.

Registry operator
American Bible Society
Technical backend
ARI Registry Services (GoDaddy Registry) via ns ptr
Delegated
2 Jun 2015
Nameservers
a.nic.bible, b.nic.bible, c.nic.bible, ns1.dns.nic.bible, ns2.dns.nic.bible, ns3.dns.nic.bible
RDAP
https://rdap.nic.bible
Zone data
CZDS access approved — counted daily

Do people keep it?

all renewal rates ›

Of the 1,104 domains that came up for renewal between May 2025 and Apr 2026, the share renewed rather than deleted. How this is computed.

Keep rate
82.52%
above .com/.net/.org
Renewed
911
in twelve months
Deleted
193
in twelve months

For comparison, the median gTLD keeps 69.15% and .com, .net and .org together keep 73.25%.

Registrar share

individual · combined

Related accreditations combined into corporate families. This grouping is our inference, not ICANN's.

Month Nov 2025 latest
Porkbun LLC — 529 (37.17%)Epik LLC — 328 (23.05%)NameSilo, LLC — 212 (14.9%)Dynadot Inc — 64 (4.5%)MarkMonitor Inc. — 45 (3.16%)101domain GRS Limited — 41 (2.88%)OVH sas — 29 (2.04%)eNom, LLC — 26 (1.83%)Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE — 26 (1.83%)Gandi SAS — 20 (1.41%)Other — 103 (7.24%)
1.42kreported Nov 2025
Share of .bible by registrar
Porkbun LLC52937.17%
Epik LLC32823.05%
NameSilo, LLC21214.9%
Dynadot Inc644.5%
MarkMonitor Inc.453.16%
101domain GRS Limited412.88%
OVH sas292.04%
eNom, LLC261.83%
Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE261.83%
Gandi SAS201.41%
Other24 more1037.24%

Domains by month, Jun 2015 – Apr 2026

From ICANN's monthly registry reports — the registry's own count, summed across registrars. This is the long history: it reaches back to delegation, where the daily series below can only start when this site began collecting zone files.

Jun 2015 – Apr 2026 1y 3y 5y 10y All
05171,0341,5512,068Jun 2015Nov 2020Apr 2026
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MonthDomainsChangeRegistrarsNet addsDeletes
Apr 2026 1,438 ▲ +15 35 35 14
Mar 2026 1,423 ▲ +13 35 31 19
Feb 2026 1,410 ▼ -7 34 17 30
Jan 2026 1,417 ▼ -1 34 19 21
Dec 2025 1,418 ▼ -5 34 23 24
Nov 2025 1,423 ▲ +4 34 23 16

Showing the latest 6 of 131 months in this range. Show all 131.

Domains over time

Counted from daily zone files. Names with at least one NS record or a DS record.

12 Aug 2026 – 19 Aug 2026
1,4521,4561,4591,4621,46612 Aug 2615 Aug 2619 Aug 26
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Daily adds and drops

Day-over-day difference of the zone's name list, over the same window as the chart above.

  • Added
  • Dropped
+40-412 Aug 2619 Aug 26

Registrars

Registrar figures are for April 2026. ICANN publishes monthly registry reports about three months in arrears, and they are the only source that attributes domains to registrars — zone files do not contain registrar information. Methodology.

Registry activity

Query volumes and EPP operations reported monthly by the registry. The only public signal of how much a TLD is actually resolved rather than merely registered.

MonthOperational registrarsDNS queries (UDP)RDAP queriesCreatesDeletesRenews
Dec 2017 20 44.44M 0 17 4 30
Nov 2017 20 0 0 121 9 6
Oct 2017 20 39.65M 0 58 54 21
Sep 2017 20 43.15M 0 44 2 22
Aug 2017 20 42.67M 0 15 0 24
Jul 2017 19 43.00M 0 103 0 11
Jun 2017 31 43.42M 0 86 1 6
May 2017 31 44.26M 0 28 2 5
Apr 2017 18 37.01M 0 297 73 18
Mar 2017 17 35.16M 0 35 42 45
Feb 2017 29 29.63M 0 28 0 64
Jan 2017 28 29.04M 0 10 3 45
Dec 2016 28 31.57M 0 23 0 25
Nov 2016 28 28.28M 0 5 0 1
Oct 2016 28 28.56M 0 22 0 0
Sep 2016 28 25.02M 0 57 14 0
Aug 2016 28 26.34M 0 29 3 0
Jul 2016 28 28.30M 0 8 1 0
Jun 2016 28 22.36M 0 22 1 1
May 2016 28 20.01M 0 305 1 0
Apr 2016 28 18.65M 0 125 1 1
Mar 2016 27 18.65M 0 342 0 0
Feb 2016 27 16.40M 0 118 0 0
Jan 2016 23 16.85M 0 87 0 12
Dec 2015 15 17.09M 0 40 0 0
Nov 2015 3 16.93M 0 11 0 0
Oct 2015 3 17.31M 0 3 0 2
Sep 2015 3 15.57M 0 13 0 0
Aug 2015 2 14.58M 0 0 0 0
Jul 2015 1 15.62M 0 0 1 0
Jun 2015 0 14.19M 0 1 0 0

Data currency. Domain counts on this page are from zone files dated 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.