.cyou

491,658 domains as of 19 Aug 2026

Domains
491,658
19 Aug 2026
30-day change
Signed in root
✔ Yes
DS record present
Type
Generic
ASCII
Registrar figures are for December 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
Shortdot SA
Technical backend
CentralNic (Team Internet) via rdap host
Delegated
3 Apr 2015
Nameservers
a.nic.cyou, b.nic.cyou, c.nic.cyou, d.nic.cyou
RDAP
https://rdap.centralnic.com/cyou
Zone data
CZDS access approved — counted daily

Do people keep it?

all renewal rates ›

Of the 228,945 domains that came up for renewal between May 2025 and Apr 2026, the share renewed rather than deleted. How this is computed.

Keep rate
3.09%
below .com/.net/.org
Renewed
7,078
in twelve months
Deleted
221,867
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 4 of the 87 reporting here. This grouping is our inference, not ICANN's.

Month Dec 2025 latest
Gname.com Pte. Ltd. — 164.02k (36.24%)Dynadot Inc — 73,711 (16.29%)NameSilo, LLC — 50,825 (11.23%)Namecheap — 41,944 (9.27%)West263 International Limited — 30,427 (6.72%)Xiamen ChinaSource Internet Service Co., Ltd — 21,856 (4.83%)Chengdu West Dimension Digital Technology Co., Ltd. — 11,465 (2.53%)Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn) — 10,716 (2.37%)Web Commerce Communications Limited dba WebNic.cc — 8,107 (1.79%)Porkbun LLC — 8,048 (1.78%)Other — 31,455 (6.95%)
452.57kreported Dec 2025
Share of .cyou by registrar
Gname.com Pte. Ltd.164.02k36.24%
Dynadot Inc73,71116.29%
NameSilo, LLC50,82511.23%
Namecheap2 accreditations41,9449.27%
West263 International Limited30,4276.72%
Xiamen ChinaSource Internet Service Co., Ltd21,8564.83%
Chengdu West Dimension Digital Technology Co., Ltd.11,4652.53%
Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn)2 accreditations10,7162.37%
Web Commerce Communications Limited dba WebNic.cc8,1071.79%
Porkbun LLC8,0481.78%
Other77 more31,4556.95%

Domains by month, Apr 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.

Apr 2015 – Apr 2026 1y 3y 5y 10y All
0243.90k487.79k731.69k975.58kApr 2015Oct 2020Apr 2026
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MonthDomainsChangeRegistrarsNet addsDeletes
Apr 2026 524,314 ▲ +15,930 118 39,504 20,729
Mar 2026 508,384 ▲ +23,760 118 50,744 21,370
Feb 2026 484,624 ▲ +8,128 118 27,783 35,503
Jan 2026 476,496 ▲ +23,927 115 44,211 21,068
Dec 2025 452,569 ▲ +66,296 113 79,255 16,146
Nov 2025 386,273 ▲ +18,002 110 27,747 12,109

Showing the latest 6 of 133 months in this range. Show all 133.

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
489.58k490.14k490.69k491.25k491.81k12 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
+1.85k0-1.85k12 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
Apr 2026 335 20.97B 2.71M 36,018 22,081 628
Mar 2026 336 19.05B 2.39M 43,834 19,157 555
Feb 2026 336 14.43B 1.96M 34,084 21,778 426
Jan 2026 336 15.66B 1.76M 44,879 26,110 425
Dec 2025 335 15.69B 1.65M 81,339 23,659 443
Nov 2025 332 12.29B 1.27M 29,965 16,105 400
Oct 2025 331 12.47B 1.34M 26,463 13,373 431
Sep 2025 328 12.58B 979.48k 41,503 21,789 658
Aug 2025 326 12.94B 554.32k 33,097 13,559 599
Jul 2025 324 12.60B 438.31k 42,852 23,952 1,102
Jun 2025 322 12.60B 310.51k 31,372 11,593 651
May 2025 316 12.37B 325.02k 48,195 14,754 468
Apr 2025 316 9.64B 259.50k 23,884 15,469 399
Mar 2025 316 9.64B 251.94k 22,763 49,478 421
Feb 2025 316 9.01B 205.64k 18,322 55,032 376
Jan 2025 316 10.29B 161.88k 21,561 38,026 380
Dec 2024 314 9.18B 119.89k 22,370 6,090 408
Nov 2024 314 8.12B 94.62k 24,358 4,961 615
Oct 2024 310 8.44B 63.58k 15,666 4,368 358
Sep 2024 307 7.80B 55.50k 14,534 6,530 363
Aug 2024 302 8.41B 136.89k 13,238 13,618 389
Jul 2024 300 8.70B 33.92k 19,932 11,975 415
Jun 2024 301 7.45B 138.90k 10,983 7,297 747
May 2024 300 6.35B 200.60k 11,100 17,233 740
Apr 2024 288 2.39B 75.47k 12,406 21,344 583
Mar 2024 288 1.63B 43.10k 10,702 42,964 441
Feb 2024 285 5.65B 90.61k 51,617 95,430 563
Jan 2024 281 10.37B 111.58k 57,700 93,649 507
Dec 2023 280 7.81B 58.03k 32,005 12,608 362
Nov 2023 276 6.55B 84.13k 11,727 26,599 470
Oct 2023 275 5.58B 291.38k 5,557 18,447 556
Sep 2023 274 5.70B 0 3,964 13,266 442
Aug 2023 272 4.02B 0 6,426 9,923 336
Jul 2023 271 2.97B 0 13,352 14,143 523
Jun 2023 269 6.22B 0 0 85 0
May 2023 268 6.90B 0 8,174 27,651 484
Apr 2023 268 7.67B 0 15,991 103,833 359
Mar 2023 262 6.48B 0 20,237 80,983 393
Feb 2023 260 4.94B 0 28,080 158,460 647
Jan 2023 258 6.00B 0 42,079 144,373 325
Dec 2022 256 6.91B 0 51,544 21,679 332
Nov 2022 254 6.06B 0 10,336 18,819 665
Oct 2022 254 6.33B 0 24,685 7,877 379
Sep 2022 253 5.77B 0 10,438 21,708 496
Aug 2022 249 5.40B 0 13,813 15,418 310
Jul 2022 248 7.09B 0 10,236 11,316 427
Jun 2022 248 5.14B 0 3,403 10,039 409
May 2022 227 2.99B 0 4,177 11,969 418
Apr 2022 221 804.27M 0 8,243 14,068 319
Mar 2022 216 4.05B 0 3,498 8,648 400
Feb 2022 215 3.55B 0 80,114 9,615 314
Jan 2022 215 3.42B 0 54,558 12,772 314
Dec 2021 164 139.52B 0 118,768 10,389 389
Nov 2021 162 106.99B 0 42,856 9,924 368
Oct 2021 158 117.06B 0 8,593 9,279 415
Sep 2021 154 113.55B 0 9,412 5,947 237
Aug 2021 151 3.80B 0 19,347 7,741 202
Jul 2021 149 2.98B 0 15,991 620 398
Jun 2021 145 2.64M 0 10,092 117 291
May 2021 143 419.98M 0 11,682 127 166
Apr 2021 141 256.89M 0 0 0 0
Mar 2021 141 235.68M 0 14,857 159 17
Feb 2021 137 212.32M 0 10,224 187 58
Jan 2021 135 191.28M 0 10,151 296 68
Dec 2020 122 160.74M 0 12,973 172 116
Nov 2020 116 122.70M 0 10,458 76 75
Oct 2020 110 107.63M 0 12,483 193 522
Sep 2020 107 80.93M 0 9,900 797 225
Aug 2020 99 62.25M 0 7,305 549 78
Jul 2020 96 58.18M 0 1,045 13 6
Jun 2020 93 51.49M 0 40,302 44 51
May 2020 78 39.61M 0 34 1 1
Apr 2020 0 36.67M 0 0 0 0
Mar 2020 0 36.88M 0 0 0 0
Feb 2020 0 33.58M 0 792,371 88 3
Jan 2020 0 26.66M 0 344,626 920 0
Dec 2019 0 22.75M 0 8,231 3,494 0
Nov 2019 0 20.53M 0 395,158 6,182 164,743
Oct 2019 0 18.29M 0 29,013 87 14,815
Sep 2019 0 19.46M 0 312,572 1 0
Aug 2019 0 17.94M 0 373,689 120 0
Jul 2019 0 18.09M 0 0 0 0
Jun 2019 0 17.58M 0 0 0 0
May 2019 0 18.13M 0 0 0 0
Apr 2019 0 16.78M 0 0 0 0
Mar 2019 0 18.10M 0 0 0 0
Feb 2019 0 17.19M 0 0 0 0
Jan 2019 0 28.06M 0 0 0 0
Dec 2018 0 31.59M 0 0 0 0
Nov 2018 0 21.02M 0 0 0 0
Oct 2018 0 18.37M 0 0 0 0
Sep 2018 0 18.27M 0 0 0 0
Aug 2018 0 23.97M 0 0 0 0
Jul 2018 0 20.36M 0 0 0 0
Jun 2018 0 19.09M 0 0 0 0
May 2018 0 18.30M 0 2 0 0
Apr 2018 0 18.43M 0 17 2 0
Mar 2018 0 17.99M 0 0 0 0
Feb 2018 0 16.56M 0 9 1 0
Jan 2018 0 18.70M 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.