.boston

4,293 domains as of 14 Oct 2026

Domains
4,293
14 Oct 2026
30-day change
▼ -22
-0.51%
Signed in root
✔ Yes
DS record present
Type
Generic
ASCII
Registrar figures are for July 2017. 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
Registry Services, LLC
Technical backend
GoDaddy Registry via ns ptr
Delegated
29 Nov 2016
Nameservers
a.nic.boston, b.nic.boston, c.nic.boston, x.nic.boston, y.nic.boston, z.nic.boston
RDAP
https://rdap.nic.boston
Zone data
CZDS access approved — counted daily

Do people keep it?

all renewal rates ›

Source: ICANN monthly registry reports

Of the 4,146 domains that came up for renewal between Jul 2025 and Jun 2026, the share renewed rather than deleted. How this is computed.

Keep rate
63.36%
below .com/.net/.org
Renewed
2,627
in twelve months
Deleted
1,519
in twelve months

For comparison, the median new gTLD keeps 67.83% and .com, .net and .org together keep 73.23%.

Registrar share

individual · combined

Source: ICANN monthly registry reports

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

Month ‹ › Jul 2017 latest
Name Share, Inc. — 1 (33.33%)Reserved for ICANN's Registry SLA Monitoring System transactions reporting — 1 (33.33%)Reserved for non-billable transactions where Registry Operator acts as Registrar — 1 (33.33%)
3reported Jul 2017
Share of .boston by registrar
Name Share, Inc.133.33%
Reserved for ICANN's Registry SLA Monitoring System transactions reporting133.33%
Reserved for non-billable transactions where Registry Operator acts as Registrar133.33%

Domains by month, Nov 2016 – Jun 2026

Source: ICANN monthly registry reports

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.

Nov 2016 – Jun 2026 1y 3y 5y All
06,02712,05418,08124,108Nov 2016Aug 2021Jun 2026
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MonthDomainsChangeRegistrarsNet addsDeletes
Jun 2026 4,433 ▼ -93 63 57 149
May 2026 4,526 ▼ -22 63 49 67
Apr 2026 4,548 ▼ -207 63 79 293
Mar 2026 4,755 ▲ +14 64 96 88
Feb 2026 4,741 ▼ -28 64 58 77
Jan 2026 4,769 ▼ -107 64 67 176

Showing the latest 6 of 116 months in this range. Show all 116.

Domains by day, 12 Aug 2026 – 14 Oct 2026

Source: Daily zone files

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

12 Aug 2026 – 14 Oct 2026 30d All
4,2914,2994,3084,3174,32512 Aug 2612 Sep 2614 Oct 26
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Daily change

Source: Daily zone files

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

  • Added
  • Dropped
+120-1212 Aug 2614 Oct 26

Registrars

Registrar figures are for June 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.
Registrar Domains Share Net adds Transfers in Deletes
GoDaddy.com, LLC 1,964
65466.7%
▲ +15 0 20
NameCheap, Inc. 557
18566.7%
▲ +13 0 31
Cloudflare, Inc. 275
9166.7%
▲ +8 0 1
Porkbun LLC 244
8133.3%
▲ +5 0 8
Spaceship, Inc. 169
5633.3%
▲ +8 3 22
Network Solutions, LLC 127
4233.3%
▲ +1 0 1
CSC Corporate Domains, Inc. 117
3900%
0 0 0
Tucows Domains Inc. 98
3266.7%
0 0 0
EnCirca, Inc. 94
3133.3%
0 0 0
Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE 85
2833.3%
0 0 0
Dynadot Inc 85
2833.3%
▲ +5 0 11
MarkMonitor Inc. 69
2300%
0 0 0
IONOS SE 46
1533.3%
0 0 1
NameSilo, LLC 41
1366.7%
0 0 50
Gandi SAS 35
1166.7%
0 0 0
101domain GRS Limited 30
1000%
0 0 1
Key-Systems, LLC 30
1000%
0 0 0
Global Domains International, Inc. DBA DomainCostClub.com 29
966.7%
0 0 0
GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC 27
900%
0 0 0
Wild West Domains, LLC 26
866.7%
0 0 0
Hello Internet Corp. 24
800%
0 0 0
Name.com, Inc. 21
700%
0 0 0
Domain.com - Network Solutions, LLC 19
633.3%
0 0 0
1API GmbH 19
633.3%
0 0 0
GoDaddy Online Services Cayman Islands Ltd. 15
500%
0 0 0
Go Canada Domains, LLC 14
466.7%
0 0 0
eNom, LLC 13
433.3%
0 0 0
Safenames Ltd 11
366.7%
0 0 0
Go China Domains, LLC 11
366.7%
0 0 0
Instra Corporation Pty Ltd. 11
366.7%
0 0 0
united-domains GmbH 11
366.7%
0 0 0
Go Australia Domains, LLC 10
333.3%
0 0 0
Go France Domains, LLC 9
300%
0 0 0
Lexsynergy Limited 9
300%
0 0 0
Gname.com Pte. Ltd. 8
266.7%
0 0 0
Sav.com, LLC 7
233.3%
0 0 0
Marcaria International LLC 7
233.3%
0 0 0
Go Montenegro Domains, LLC 7
233.3%
0 0 0
Blue Razor Domains, LLC 6
200%
0 0 0
Register.com - Network Solutions, LLC 5
166.7%
0 0 0
Namemart Limited 5
166.7%
0 0 0
Devexpanse Ltd 5
166.7%
0 0 0
InterNetX GmbH 4
133.3%
0 0 0
Epik LLC 4
133.3%
▲ +1 0 0
Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu 4
133.3%
0 0 0
Unstoppable Domains Inc. 4
133.3%
0 0 0
Dreamscape Networks International Pte Ltd 2
66.7%
0 0 0
INWX GmbH 2
66.7%
0 0 0
NETIM SAS 2
66.7%
▲ +1 0 3
Barbero & Associates Limited 2
66.7%
0 0 0
Reserved for billable transactions where Registry Operator acts as Registrar 2
66.7%
0 0 0
Abion AB 1
33.3%
0 0 0
Ascio Technologies, Inc. Danmark - Filial af Ascio technologies, Inc. USA 1
33.3%
0 0 0
BB-Online UK Limited 1
33.3%
0 0 0
Realtime Register B.V. 1
33.3%
0 0 0
Tiger Technologies LLC 1
33.3%
0 0 0
EuroDNS S.A. 1
33.3%
0 0 0
DomainContext, Inc. 1
33.3%
0 0 0
OwnRegistrar, Inc. 1
33.3%
0 0 0
Soluciones Corporativas IP, SL 1
33.3%
0 0 0
Domain Science Kutatási Szolgáltató Korlátolt Felelősségű Társaság 1
33.3%
0 0 0
Reserved for ICANN's Registry SLA Monitoring System transactions reporting 1
33.3%
0 0 0
Reserved for non-billable transactions where Registry Operator acts as Registrar 1
33.3%
0 0 0

Registry activity

Source: ICANN monthly registry reports

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 Transfers approved Rejected
Feb 2018 65 53.47M 0 217 0 0 6 0
Jan 2018 65 61.04M 0 328 2 6 6 0
Dec 2017 64 64.43M 0 13,449 9 0 1 0
Nov 2017 64 43.91M 0 6,295 43,140 6 0 0
Oct 2017 63 37.47M 0 275,973 15,871 161 0 0
Sep 2017 54 34.53M 0 30 0 0 0 0
Aug 2017 51 27.25M 0 2,212 0 0 0 0
Jul 2017 42 15.92M 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jun 2017 6 28.35M 0 0 0 0 0 0
May 2017 6 27.69M 0 0 0 0 0 0
Apr 2017 6 24.77M 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mar 2017 6 15.06M 0 0 0 0 0 0
Feb 2017 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jan 2017 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dec 2016 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nov 2016 6 0 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 June 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.