.boston

4,320 domains as of 18 Aug 2026

Domains

4,320

18 Aug 2026

30-day change

–

Signed in root

✔ Yes

DS record present

Type

Generic

ASCII

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 details

From the IANA Root Zone Database and RDAP bootstrap.

Registry operator: Registry Services, LLC
Technical backend: ARI Registry Services (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 ›

Of the 4,083 domains that came up for renewal between May 2025 and Apr 2026, the share renewed rather than deleted. How this is computed.

Keep rate

64.22%

below .com/.net/.org

Renewed

2,622

in twelve months

Deleted

1,461

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, folding 11 of the 56 reporting here. This grouping is our inference, not ICANN's.

4.55kreported Apr 2026

Share of .boston by registrar
GoDaddy4 accreditations	2,048	45.03%
Namecheap2 accreditations	767	16.86%
Cloudflare, Inc.	263	5.78%
Porkbun LLC	244	5.36%
Newfold Digital3 accreditations	153	3.36%
CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.	117	2.57%
Tucows2 accreditations	102	2.24%
EnCirca, Inc.	95	2.09%
NameSilo, LLC	91	2%
Dynadot Inc	90	1.98%
Other46 more	578	12.71%

4,548 attributed to registrars in Apr 2026, against 4,320 in 18 Aug 2026’s zone — the zone is 228 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, Nov 2016 – 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.

Nov 2016 – Apr 2026 1y 3y 5y All

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Month	Domains	Change	Registrars	Net adds	Deletes
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
Dec 2025	4,876	▼ -141	64	46	202
Nov 2025	5,017	▲ +18	63	99	88
Oct 2025	4,999	▼ -43	63	62	123
Sep 2025	5,042	▼ -23	62	41	69
Aug 2025	5,065	▲ +5	63	87	80
Jul 2025	5,060	▼ -48	62	47	107
Jun 2025	5,108	▼ -11	62	72	84
May 2025	5,119	▼ -18	62	70	74
Apr 2025	5,137	▼ -9	62	106	109
Mar 2025	5,146	▼ -66	62	92	170
Feb 2025	5,212	▲ +168	63	269	54
Jan 2025	5,044	▼ -7	63	56	119
Dec 2024	5,051	▼ -105	63	47	156
Nov 2024	5,156	▲ +110	63	182	66
Oct 2024	5,046	▼ -42	62	79	105
Sep 2024	5,088	▲ +39	61	81	63
Aug 2024	5,049	▲ +27	61	96	69
Jul 2024	5,022	▼ -18	60	67	90
Jun 2024	5,040	▲ +5	60	66	52
May 2024	5,035	▲ +53	60	119	71
Apr 2024	4,982	▼ -5	58	97	108
Mar 2024	4,987	▼ -223	59	155	352
Feb 2024	5,210	▼ -170	59	99	289
Jan 2024	5,380	▲ +281	59	385	110
Dec 2023	5,099	▲ +4	58	117	113
Nov 2023	5,095	▲ +16	58	92	63
Oct 2023	5,079	▲ +20	58	123	97
Sep 2023	5,059	▲ +46	57	107	55
Aug 2023	5,013	▲ +38	56	106	93
Jul 2023	4,975	▼ -82	56	98	174
Jun 2023	5,057	▲ +34	56	131	101
May 2023	5,023	▲ +24	55	125	86
Apr 2023	4,999	▲ +42	54	86	62
Mar 2023	4,957	▲ +40	53	92	52
Feb 2023	4,917	▲ +2	53	71	69
Jan 2023	4,915	▲ +111	53	270	102
Dec 2022	4,804	▲ +250	51	306	101
Nov 2022	4,554	▲ +178	51	211	55
Oct 2022	4,376	▲ +44	51	97	56
Sep 2022	4,332	▲ +24	51	77	51
Aug 2022	4,308	▲ +66	51	136	64
Jul 2022	4,242	▲ +25	51	67	52
Jun 2022	4,217	▲ +28	51	83	43
May 2022	4,189	▲ +124	51	172	52
Apr 2022	4,065	▲ +85	50	110	44
Mar 2022	3,980	▲ +59	50	80	26
Feb 2022	3,921	▲ +12	50	59	40
Jan 2022	3,909	▼ -87	49	68	183
Dec 2021	3,996	▲ +42	49	60	4
Nov 2021	3,954	▲ +68	49	106	39
Oct 2021	3,886	▲ +5	49	60	56
Sep 2021	3,881	▲ +17	49	65	39
Aug 2021	3,864	▲ +5	48	75	75
Jul 2021	3,859	▲ +48	48	76	30
Jun 2021	3,811	▲ +55	48	81	30
May 2021	3,756	▲ +54	48	94	34
Apr 2021	3,702	▲ +23	48	48	30
Mar 2021	3,679	▲ +31	48	69	35
Feb 2021	3,648	▲ +19	48	54	32
Jan 2021	3,629	▼ -334	47	70	415
Dec 2020	3,963	▼ -16	48	61	78
Nov 2020	3,979	▲ +10	48	39	31
Oct 2020	3,969	▲ +33	48	75	24
Sep 2020	3,936	▲ +17	48	47	47
Aug 2020	3,919	▲ +43	48	67	28
Jul 2020	3,876	▲ +33	48	63	30
Jun 2020	3,843	▼ -9,489	47	62	9,553
May 2020	13,332	▼ -3	46	66	68
Apr 2020	13,335	▼ -2	46	50	46
Mar 2020	13,337	▼ -5	45	56	69
Feb 2020	13,342	▼ -49	45	46	102
Jan 2020	13,391	▼ -391	44	41	437
Dec 2019	13,782	▼ -28	44	39	62
Nov 2019	13,810	▲ +12	44	32	24
Oct 2019	13,798	▲ +34	44	60	22
Sep 2019	13,764	▲ +35	44	70	24
Aug 2019	13,729	▲ +44	44	67	35
Jul 2019	13,685	▲ +34	44	68	36
Jun 2019	13,651	▲ +29	44	71	39
May 2019	13,622	▲ +19	44	73	61
Apr 2019	13,603	▼ -12	44	41	57
Mar 2019	13,615	▼ -7	44	9,580	9,575
Feb 2019	13,622	▼ -5,780	44	58	5,841
Jan 2019	19,402	▼ -2,920	43	80	3,004
Dec 2018	22,322	▲ +35	43	64	25
Nov 2018	22,287	▲ +58	42	53	4
Oct 2018	22,229	▲ +46	41	56	8
Sep 2018	22,183	▲ +37	41	39	4
Aug 2018	22,146	▲ +56	41	66	10
Jul 2018	22,090	▲ +70	41	67	8
Jun 2018	22,020	▲ +97	40	121	8
May 2018	21,923	▲ +101	39	104	3
Apr 2018	21,822	▲ +121	39	104	1
Mar 2018	21,701	▲ +166	39	213	2
Feb 2018	21,535	▲ +216	39	177	0
Jan 2018	21,319	▲ +166	38	194	28
Dec 2017	21,153	▲ +9,738	38	13,380	6
Nov 2017	11,415	▲ +6,121	38	4,291	2
Oct 2017	5,294	▲ +5,097	38	3,265	23
Sep 2017	197	▲ +10	17	10	0
Aug 2017	187	▲ +184	15	171	0
Jul 2017	3	▲ +2	3	0	0
Jun 2017	1	0	1	0	0
May 2017	1	0	1	0	0
Apr 2017	1	0	1	0	0
Mar 2017	1	0	1	0	0
Feb 2017	1	0	1	0	0
Jan 2017	1	0	1	0	0
Dec 2016	1	0	1	0	0
Nov 2016	1	–	1	0	0

Showing all 114 months in this range. Show the latest 6.

Domains over time

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

12 Aug 2026 – 18 Aug 2026

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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

Registrars

Registrar	Domains	Share	Net adds	Transfers in	Deletes
GoDaddy.com, LLC	1,977	43.5%	▲ +35	0	60
NameCheap, Inc.	586	12.9%	▲ +7	0	16
Cloudflare, Inc.	263	5.8%	▲ +8	28	0
Porkbun LLC	244	5.4%	▲ +18	1	5
Spaceship, Inc.	181	4%	▲ +7	0	6
Network Solutions, LLC	129	2.8%	▲ +1	0	0
CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.	117	2.6%	0	0	0
Tucows Domains Inc.	101	2.2%	0	0	3
EnCirca, Inc.	95	2.1%	0	0	0
NameSilo, LLC	91	2%	0	0	1
Dynadot Inc	90	2%	▲ +1	0	160
Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE	85	1.9%	0	0	0
MarkMonitor Inc.	73	1.6%	0	0	0
IONOS SE	47	1%	0	0	1
Gandi SAS	34	0.7%	0	0	0
101domain GRS Limited	31	0.7%	0	0	0
Global Domains International, Inc. DBA DomainCostClub.com	30	0.7%	0	0	0
Key-Systems, LLC	29	0.6%	0	0	0
Wild West Domains, LLC	28	0.6%	0	0	0
GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC	27	0.6%	0	0	1
Hello Internet Corp.	24	0.5%	0	0	0
Name.com, Inc.	20	0.4%	▲ +1	0	0
Domain.com - Network Solutions, LLC	19	0.4%	0	0	3
1API GmbH	19	0.4%	0	0	1
GoDaddy Online Services Cayman Islands Ltd.	16	0.4%	0	0	0
Go Canada Domains, LLC	14	0.3%	0	0	0
eNom, LLC	13	0.3%	▲ +1	0	0
Safenames Ltd	11	0.2%	0	0	0
Go China Domains, LLC	11	0.2%	0	0	0
Instra Corporation Pty Ltd.	11	0.2%	0	0	0
united-domains GmbH	11	0.2%	0	0	0
Gname.com Pte. Ltd.	11	0.2%	0	0	35
Go Australia Domains, LLC	10	0.2%	0	0	0
Go France Domains, LLC	9	0.2%	0	0	0
Lexsynergy Limited	9	0.2%	0	0	0
Sav.com, LLC	7	0.2%	0	0	0
Marcaria International LLC	7	0.2%	0	0	0
Go Montenegro Domains, LLC	7	0.2%	0	0	0
Blue Razor Domains, LLC	6	0.1%	0	0	0
Register.com - Network Solutions, LLC	5	0.1%	0	0	0
Namemart Limited	5	0.1%	0	0	0
Devexpanse Ltd	5	0.1%	0	0	0
InterNetX GmbH	4	0.1%	0	0	0
Epik LLC	4	0.1%	0	0	0
NETIM SAS	4	0.1%	0	0	0
Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu	4	0.1%	0	0	0
Unstoppable Domains Inc.	4	0.1%	0	0	0
Dreamscape Networks International Pte Ltd	2	0%	0	0	0
INWX GmbH	2	0%	0	0	0
Barbero & Associates Limited	2	0%	0	0	0
Reserved for billable transactions where Registry Operator acts as Registrar	2	0%	0	0	0
Abion AB	1	0%	0	0	0
Ascio Technologies, Inc. Danmark - Filial af Ascio technologies, Inc. USA	1	0%	0	0	0
BB-Online UK Limited	1	0%	0	0	0
Realtime Register B.V.	1	0%	0	0	0
Tiger Technologies LLC	1	0%	0	0	0
EuroDNS S.A.	1	0%	0	0	0
DomainContext, Inc.	1	0%	0	0	0
OwnRegistrar, Inc.	1	0%	0	0	0
Soluciones Corporativas IP, SL	1	0%	0	0	0
Domain Science Kutatási Szolgáltató Korlátolt Felelősségű Társaság	1	0%	0	0	0
Reserved for ICANN's Registry SLA Monitoring System transactions reporting	1	0%	0	0	0
Reserved for non-billable transactions where Registry Operator acts as Registrar	1	0%	0	0	0

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)	Creates	Deletes	Renews
Dec 2017	64	64.43M	13,449	9	0
Nov 2017	64	43.91M	6,295	43,140	6
Oct 2017	63	37.47M	275,973	15,871	161
Sep 2017	54	34.53M	30	0	0
Aug 2017	51	27.25M	2,212	0	0
Jul 2017	42	15.92M	0	0	0
Jun 2017	6	28.35M	0	0	0
May 2017	6	27.69M	0	0	0
Apr 2017	6	24.77M	0	0	0
Mar 2017	6	15.06M	0	0	0
Feb 2017	6	0	0	0	0
Jan 2017	6	0	0	0	0
Dec 2016	6	0	0	0	0
Nov 2016	6	0	0	0	0

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.