.gdn

18,574 domains as of April 2026, from the registry's own report to ICANN. No zone file is available for this TLD, so there is no daily count — why there are two clocks.

Domains
18,574
April 2026 report
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
Joint Stock Company "Navigation-information systems"
Technical backend
unknown — this TLD runs vanity infrastructure that identifies no platform
Delegated
13 Feb 2015
Nameservers
ns1.nic.gdn, ns3.nic.gdn, ns4.nic.gdn
RDAP
https://rdap.nic.gdn
Zone data
CZDS status not yet established

Do people keep it?

all renewal rates ›

Of the 52,992 domains that came up for renewal between May 2025 and Apr 2026, the share renewed rather than deleted. How this is computed.

Keep rate
23.52%
below .com/.net/.org
Renewed
12,466
in twelve months
Deleted
40,526
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. This grouping is our inference, not ICANN's.

Month Apr 2026
Dynadot Inc — 9,099 (48.99%)Lexsynergy Limited — 4,905 (26.41%)Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu — 3,183 (17.14%)Namecheap — 896 (4.82%)Epik LLC — 117 (0.63%)OVH sas — 96 (0.52%)Web Commerce Communications Limited dba WebNic.cc — 77 (0.41%)Reserved for non-billable transactions where Registry Operator acts as Registrar — 65 (0.35%)Gandi SAS — 44 (0.24%)Key-Systems — 34 (0.18%)Other — 58 (0.31%)
18.57kreported Apr 2026
Share of .gdn by registrar
Dynadot Inc9,09948.99%
Lexsynergy Limited4,90526.41%
Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu3,18317.14%
Namecheap8964.82%
Epik LLC1170.63%
OVH sas960.52%
Web Commerce Communications Limited dba WebNic.cc770.41%
Reserved for non-billable transactions where Registry Operator acts as Registrar650.35%
Gandi SAS440.24%
Key-Systems340.18%
Other5 more580.31%

Domains by month, Apr 2021 – 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 2021 – Apr 2026 1y 3y 5y 10y All
4,67826,93949,20071,46193,722Apr 2021Oct 2023Apr 2026
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MonthDomainsChangeRegistrarsNet addsDeletes
Apr 2026 18,574 ▼ -5,938 15 634 486
Mar 2026 24,512 ▼ -5,986 15 41 8,411
Feb 2026 30,498 ▼ -8,991 15 177 3,093
Jan 2026 39,489 ▼ -10,258 15 140 14,247
Dec 2025 49,747 ▼ -30,726 15 88 13,454
Nov 2025 80,473 ▼ -7,108 15 98 231

Showing the latest 6 of 61 months in this range. Show all 61.

Daily domain counts

No zone data for this TLD yet Daily counts require an approved CZDS zone request for this TLD. The monthly history above is unaffected — it comes from ICANN registry reports.

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
Dec 2017 26 1.14B 0 9,488 32,080 1,000
Nov 2017 25 0 0 6,571 75,561 191
Oct 2017 25 1.15B 0 8,739 122,570 1,164
Sep 2017 25 1.25B 0 6,953 96,714 684
Aug 2017 25 1.55B 0 7,481 81,080 361
Jul 2017 25 1.40B 0 8,730 549,026 704
Jun 2017 25 1.36B 0 6,963 335,507 56
May 2017 25 1.24B 0 5,349 413 186
Apr 2017 24 1.15B 0 5,332 784 334
Mar 2017 21 902.10M 0 14,032 6,389 28,147
Feb 2017 20 778.64M 0 12,625 6 37
Jan 2017 20 840.07M 0 25,776 17 50
Dec 2016 19 883.25M 0 10,661 8 242
Nov 2016 19 332.91M 0 20,373 43 12
Oct 2016 16 198.35M 0 65,455 5 2
Sep 2016 16 499.05M 0 95,870 13 84
Aug 2016 16 691.06M 0 32,304 4 2
Jul 2016 15 1.98B 0 41,970 1 0
Jun 2016 14 1.98B 0 346,336 1 0
May 2016 13 1.98B 0 14,232 23 0
Apr 2016 6 917.84M 0 5,594 1 0
Mar 2016 5 2.01B 0 35,095 5 5
Feb 2016 4 672.70M 0 12 0 0
Jan 2016 3 690.77M 0 0 0 0
Dec 2015 3 711.57M 0 240 0 0
Nov 2015 3 656.63M 0 77 0 0
Oct 2015 3 700.89M 0 3 0 0
Sep 2015 3 596.23M 0 1 0 0
Aug 2015 3 643.78M 0 0 0 0
Jul 2015 2 589.98M 0 0 0 0
Jun 2015 2 617.66M 0 0 0 0
May 2015 2 712.41M 0 0 0 0
Apr 2015 2 753.33M 0 0 0 0
Mar 2015 2 226.70M 0 0 0 0
Feb 2015 2 256.70M 0 1 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.