.free
2,871 domains as of 19 Aug 2026
Registry details
From the IANA Root Zone Database and RDAP bootstrap.
- Registry operator
- Amazon Registry Services, Inc.
- Technical backend
- Nominet via rdap host
- Delegated
- 8 Nov 2016
- Nameservers
- dns1.nic.free, dns2.nic.free, dns3.nic.free, dns4.nic.free, dnsa.nic.free, dnsb.nic.free, dnsc.nic.free, dnsd.nic.free
- RDAP
- https://rdap.nominet.uk/free
- Zone data
- CZDS access approved — counted daily
Registrar share
individual · combinedRelated accreditations combined into corporate families, folding 2 of the 32 reporting here. This grouping is our inference, not ICANN's.
| Namecheap2 accreditations | 724 | 29.58% |
|---|---|---|
| Porkbun LLC | 270 | 11.03% |
| Dynadot Inc | 204 | 8.33% |
| 101domain GRS Limited | 166 | 6.78% |
| Nameshield SAS | 159 | 6.5% |
| CSC Corporate Domains, Inc. | 153 | 6.25% |
| Gandi SAS | 141 | 5.76% |
| Key-Systems | 124 | 5.07% |
| Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE | 115 | 4.7% |
| Lexsynergy Limited | 96 | 3.92% |
| Other22 more | 296 | 12.09% |
2,678 attributed to registrars in Apr 2026, against 2,871 in 19 Aug 2026’s zone — the zone is 193 larger. 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.
| Month | Domains | Change | Registrars | Net adds | Deletes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | 2,678 | ▲ +109 | 35 | 110 | 1 |
| Mar 2026 | 2,569 | ▲ +121 | 34 | 120 | 4 |
| Feb 2026 | 2,448 | ▲ +70 | 34 | 86 | 1 |
| Jan 2026 | 2,378 | ▲ +145 | 34 | 142 | 1 |
| Dec 2025 | 2,233 | ▲ +160 | 32 | 183 | 1 |
| Nov 2025 | 2,073 | ▲ +191 | 29 | 166 | 0 |
Showing the latest 6 of 114 months in this range. Show all 114.
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 | 2 | 57.22M | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2017 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2017 | 2 | 47.83M | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2017 | 2 | 50.10M | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2017 | 2 | 43.42M | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2017 | 2 | 50.92M | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2017 | 2 | 68.83M | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2017 | 2 | 51.15M | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2017 | 1 | 49.18M | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2017 | 1 | 56.62M | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2017 | 3 | 47.85M | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2017 | 0 | 53.00M | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2016 | 0 | 72.47M | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2016 | 0 | 50.12M | 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.