.black
5,982 domains as of 19 Aug 2026
Registry details
From the IANA Root Zone Database and RDAP bootstrap.
- Registry operator
- Identity Digital Limited
- Technical backend
- Identity Digital via rdap host
- Delegated
- 27 Mar 2014
- Nameservers
- a0.nic.black, a2.nic.black, b0.nic.black, c0.nic.black
- RDAP
- https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap
- Zone data
- CZDS access approved — counted daily
Do people keep it?
all renewal rates ›Of the 7,027 domains that came up for renewal between May 2025 and Apr 2026, the share renewed rather than deleted. How this is computed.
For comparison, the median gTLD keeps 69.15% and .com, .net and .org together keep 73.25%.
Registrar share
individual · combinedRelated accreditations combined into corporate families, folding 14 of the 106 reporting here. This grouping is our inference, not ICANN's.
| GoDaddy4 accreditations | 1,172 | 16.64% |
|---|---|---|
| Namecheap2 accreditations | 1,052 | 14.94% |
| Chengdu West Dimension Digital Technology Co., Ltd. | 818 | 11.61% |
| Porkbun LLC | 455 | 6.46% |
| Domain Science Kutatási Szolgáltató Korlátolt Felelősségű Társaság | 387 | 5.49% |
| Dynadot Inc6 accreditations | 295 | 4.19% |
| Squarespace Domains II LLC | 239 | 3.39% |
| Tucows2 accreditations | 207 | 2.94% |
| Cloudflare, Inc. | 205 | 2.91% |
| Name.com, Inc. | 157 | 2.23% |
| Other96 more | 2,056 | 29.19% |
7,043 attributed to registrars in Apr 2026, against 5,982 in 19 Aug 2026’s zone — the zone is 1,061 smaller. The two are months apart, and a registry's own count also includes registrations that are not delegated in the zone. Why there are two clocks.
Domains by month, Mar 2014 – 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.
| Month | Domains | Change | Registrars | Net adds | Deletes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | 7,043 | ▼ -37 | 146 | 234 | 221 |
| Mar 2026 | 7,080 | ▼ -604 | 144 | 260 | 866 |
| Feb 2026 | 7,684 | ▼ -454 | 142 | 211 | 696 |
| Jan 2026 | 8,138 | ▼ -170 | 142 | 195 | 353 |
| Dec 2025 | 8,308 | ▲ +26 | 141 | 190 | 189 |
| Nov 2025 | 8,282 | ▼ -52 | 139 | 137 | 201 |
Showing the latest 6 of 146 months in this range. Show all 146.
Domains over time
Counted from daily zone files. Names with at least one NS record or a DS record.
Daily adds and drops
Day-over-day difference of the zone's name list, over the same window as the chart above.
- Added
- Dropped
Registrars
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.
| Month | Operational registrars | DNS queries (UDP) | RDAP queries | Creates | Deletes | Renews |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2017 | 163 | 85.41M | 0 | 201 | 254 | 1,639 |
| Nov 2017 | 163 | 74.52M | 0 | 565 | 375 | 655 |
| Oct 2017 | 188 | 81.94M | 0 | 279 | 227 | 727 |
| Sep 2017 | 189 | 83.52M | 0 | 313 | 469 | 1,484 |
| Aug 2017 | 189 | 86.10M | 0 | 210 | 723 | 11,070 |
| Jul 2017 | 188 | 89.63M | 0 | 713 | 1,470 | 2,081 |
| Jun 2017 | 188 | 81.91M | 0 | 313 | 317 | 486 |
| May 2017 | 189 | 87.35M | 0 | 1,074 | 409 | 486 |
| Apr 2017 | 187 | 81.15M | 0 | 5,725 | 531 | 489 |
| Mar 2017 | 186 | 87.60M | 0 | 378 | 14,769 | 2,486 |
| Feb 2017 | 186 | 84.61M | 0 | 457 | 690 | 50,026 |
| Jan 2017 | 184 | 95.53M | 0 | 152,977 | 355 | 719 |
| Dec 2016 | 181 | 93.88M | 0 | 765 | 3,689 | 1,891 |
| Nov 2016 | 180 | 88.11M | 0 | 1,844 | 431 | 1,303 |
| Oct 2016 | 183 | 85.65M | 0 | 792 | 119 | 370 |
| Sep 2016 | 181 | 82.13M | 0 | 518 | 70 | 282 |
| Aug 2016 | 170 | 103.90M | 0 | 257 | 77 | 351 |
| Jul 2016 | 113 | 91.48M | 0 | 705 | 58 | 233 |
| Jun 2016 | 112 | 83.71M | 0 | 978 | 62 | 227 |
| May 2016 | 110 | 83.26M | 0 | 1,138 | 66 | 190 |
| Apr 2016 | 108 | 76.65M | 0 | 2,739 | 162 | 241 |
| Mar 2016 | 108 | 77.84M | 0 | 4,026 | 725 | 240 |
| Feb 2016 | 95 | 59.77M | 0 | 1,262,039 | 577 | 685 |
| Jan 2016 | 91 | 53.18M | 0 | 2,720 | 658 | 704 |
| Dec 2015 | 91 | 55.55M | 0 | 1,917 | 815 | 948 |
| Nov 2015 | 89 | 37.40M | 0 | 2,133 | 364 | 886 |
| Oct 2015 | 88 | 21.69M | 0 | 453 | 164 | 873 |
| Sep 2015 | 86 | 17.89M | 0 | 397 | 14 | 211 |
| Aug 2015 | 86 | 20.56M | 0 | 390 | 9 | 260 |
| Jul 2015 | 86 | 20.65M | 0 | 1,259 | 9 | 141 |
| Jun 2015 | 86 | 17.70M | 0 | 2,088 | 2 | 79 |
| May 2015 | 87 | 20.84M | 0 | 732 | 3 | 50 |
| Apr 2015 | 87 | 20.84M | 0 | 1,725 | 4 | 39 |
| Mar 2015 | 87 | 24.60M | 0 | 652 | 7 | 39 |
| Feb 2015 | 87 | 24.97M | 0 | 2,029,175 | 289 | 37 |
| Jan 2015 | 85 | 21.06M | 0 | 16,400,932 | 75 | 45 |
| Dec 2014 | 80 | 20.91M | 0 | 2,204 | 19 | 36 |
| Nov 2014 | 79 | 19.91M | 0 | 1,225 | 36 | 26 |
| Oct 2014 | 75 | 19.30M | 0 | 2,601 | 2,059 | 48 |
| Sep 2014 | 72 | 14.36M | 0 | 3,078 | 6 | 8 |
| Aug 2014 | 63 | 11.32M | 0 | 84,493 | 53 | 9 |
| Jul 2014 | 45 | 8.74M | 0 | 143 | 212 | 6 |
| Jun 2014 | 0 | 12.33M | 0 | 0 | 120 | 0 |
| May 2014 | 0 | 9.40M | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Apr 2014 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2014 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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.