.help

196,159 domains as of 18 Aug 2026

Domains

196,159

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: Innovation Service Ltd
Technical backend: CentralNic (Team Internet) via rdap host
Delegated: 16 Aug 2014
Nameservers: a.nic.help, b.nic.help, c.nic.help, d.nic.help
RDAP: https://rdap.centralnic.com/help
Zone data: CZDS access approved — counted daily

Do people keep it?

all renewal rates ›

Of the 47,883 domains that came up for renewal between May 2025 and Apr 2026, the share renewed rather than deleted. How this is computed.

Keep rate

28.85%

below .com/.net/.org

Renewed

13,814

in twelve months

Deleted

34,069

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 2 of the 133 reporting here. This grouping is our inference, not ICANN's.

204.11kreported Apr 2026

Share of .help by registrar
Porkbun LLC	96,809	47.43%
NameSilo, LLC	38,110	18.67%
Namecheap2 accreditations	13,944	6.83%
Gname.com Pte. Ltd.	6,911	3.39%
Dynadot Inc	6,345	3.11%
Reserved for non-billable transactions where Registry Operator acts as Registrar	6,079	2.98%
Key-Systems	5,405	2.65%
1API GmbH	4,717	2.31%
Devexpanse Ltd	3,802	1.86%
Web Commerce Communications Limited dba WebNic.cc	2,408	1.18%
Other123 more	19,581	9.59%

204,111 attributed to registrars in Apr 2026, against 196,159 in 18 Aug 2026’s zone — the zone is 7,952 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, Aug 2014 – 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.

Aug 2014 – Apr 2026 1y 3y 5y 10y All

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Month	Domains	Change	Registrars	Net adds	Deletes
Apr 2026	204,111	▲ +19,571	153	12,429	3,850
Mar 2026	184,540	▲ +15,061	151	23,219	4,781
Feb 2026	169,479	▲ +9,467	146	10,196	4,101
Jan 2026	160,012	▲ +7,257	144	11,581	4,029
Dec 2025	152,755	▲ +12,034	141	15,376	3,102
Nov 2025	140,721	▲ +9,189	141	11,106	3,356

Showing the latest 6 of 141 months in this range. Show all 141.

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	Deletes
SafeBrands SAS	6	0%	0	0
Regtime Ltd.	6	0%	0	0
P.A. Viet Nam Company Limited	6	0%	0	0
Hosting Ukraine LLC	6	0%	0	0
Focus IP, Inc. dba Tracer	6	0%	0	0
Server Plan Srl	5	0%	0	0
PlanetHoster Inc.	5	0%	0	0
Scaleway SAS	4	0%	0	0
Domain Science Kutatási Szolgáltató Korlátolt Felelősségű Társaság	4	0%	0	0
Megazone Corp., dba HOSTING.KR	3	0%	0	0
CV. Rumahweb Indonesia	3	0%	0	0
NameCamp Limited	3	0%	0	0
Barbero & Associates Limited	3	0%	0	0
Secura GmbH	2	0%	0	0
Sea Wasp, LLC	2	0%	0	0
Domain.com - Network Solutions, LLC	2	0%	0	0
CPS-Datensysteme GmbH	2	0%	0	0
The Registrar Company B.V.	2	0%	0	0
Beijing Guoxu Network Technology Co., Ltd.	2	0%	0	0
TuringSign Inc. d/b/a Cosmotown	2	0%	0	0
Atak Domain Bilgi Teknolojileri A.Ş.	2	0%	0	4
Shanghai Meicheng Technology Information Development Co., Ltd.	2	0%	0	0
LEMARIT GmbH	2	0%	0	0
Eranet International Limited	2	0%	0	0
Sav.com, LLC - 41	2	0%	0	0
Fewmoretaps OU d/b/a Trustname.com	2	0%	0	0
Ultahost, Inc.	2	0%	▲ +1	0
Domain The Net Technologies Ltd.	2	0%	0	0
PSI-Japan, Inc.	1	0%	0	0
Entorno Digital, S.A.	1	0%	0	0
Todaynic.com, Inc.	1	0%	0	0
Tiger Technologies LLC	1	0%	0	0
WHC Online Solutions Inc.	1	0%	0	0
NetEarth One Inc. d/b/a NetEarth	1	0%	0	0
Net-Chinese Co., Ltd.	1	0%	0	0
BR domain Inc. dba namegear.co	1	0%	0	0
Hello Internet Corp.	1	0%	0	0
Sav.com, LLC - 1	1	0%	0	0
Sav.com, LLC - 7	1	0%	0	0
Sav.com, LLC - 20	1	0%	0	0
Sav.com, LLC - 21	1	0%	0	0
Sav.com, LLC - 22	1	0%	▲ +1	0
Sav.com, LLC - 28	1	0%	0	0
Sav.com, LLC - 29	1	0%	0	0
Sav.com, LLC - 30	1	0%	0	0
Sav.com, LLC - 32	1	0%	▲ +1	0
Sav.com, LLC - 34	1	0%	0	0
Sav.com, LLC - 36	1	0%	0	0
Sav.com, LLC - 39	1	0%	0	0
Sav.com, LLC - 49	1	0%	0	0
xTom GmbH	1	0%	0	0
Freename Limited	1	0%	0	0
Cloud DNS Ltd	1	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)	RDAP queries	Creates	Deletes	Renews
Apr 2026	388	8.58B	712.15k	23,015	5,752	719
Mar 2026	388	7.33B	610.10k	16,488	3,920	800
Feb 2026	388	5.69B	452.25k	13,563	3,436	822
Jan 2026	388	6.25B	406.46k	11,288	5,704	964
Dec 2025	387	5.85B	384.38k	14,345	4,368	805
Nov 2025	384	4.47B	324.26k	12,374	3,059	1,066
Oct 2025	382	3.90B	280.78k	11,280	3,663	1,164
Sep 2025	379	3.41B	226.30k	9,174	4,424	2,161
Aug 2025	378	3.36B	207.67k	14,790	2,149	971
Jul 2025	375	2.87B	189.59k	23,972	2,951	2,715
Jun 2025	373	2.48B	115.53k	9,512	1,433	763
May 2025	370	2.44B	111.16k	10,071	2,235	750
Apr 2025	369	2.22B	96.45k	5,140	1,465	686
Mar 2025	368	2.23B	80.86k	7,389	1,904	1,418
Feb 2025	368	1.79B	65.23k	4,528	1,472	798
Jan 2025	368	1.87B	65.91k	3,054	1,349	1,504
Dec 2024	366	1.88B	64.19k	5,647	1,810	1,487
Nov 2024	366	1.86B	55.78k	3,732	2,234	1,738
Oct 2024	363	2.11B	38.51k	2,637	1,345	1,796
Sep 2024	361	1.83B	22.10k	3,316	2,417	1,532
Aug 2024	359	1.82B	17.71k	2,613	948	1,674
Jul 2024	357	1.64B	15.70k	1,145	872	2,036
Jun 2024	358	1.49B	15.10k	1,559	989	2,015
May 2024	357	1.38B	11.53k	1,107	1,523	2,443
Apr 2024	346	545.14M	13.12k	890	1,006	2,335
Mar 2024	346	333.51M	11.69k	958	1,826	4,663
Feb 2024	344	1.20B	12.37k	1,356	1,296	2,388
Jan 2024	340	1.37B	12.46k	971	1,756	929
Dec 2023	340	1.36B	11.71k	956	715	651
Nov 2023	336	1.28B	13.40k	1,209	497	2,534
Oct 2023	337	1.20B	8.29k	1,307	413	5,000
Sep 2023	337	974.74M	0	1,316	390	5,818
Aug 2023	283	709.80M	0	911	548	2,584
Jul 2023	283	423.23M	0	895	365	1,666
Jun 2023	282	836.99M	0	0	0	0
May 2023	276	878.00M	0	1,268	627	3,237
Apr 2023	530	1.20B	0	1,481	437	1,639
Mar 2023	256	172.76M	0	266	56	73
Feb 2023	255	415.74M	0	197	62	121
Jan 2023	255	395.64M	0	193	97	85
Dec 2022	255	356.64M	0	146	107	55
Nov 2022	236	12.88M	0	191	87	51
Oct 2022	235	13.85M	0	172	96	73
Sep 2022	235	13.99M	0	140	109	55
Aug 2022	235	21.43M	0	165	87	53
Jul 2022	235	17.86M	0	154	46	55
Jun 2022	237	14.88M	0	73	48	69
May 2022	237	13.29M	0	135	67	46
Apr 2022	236	14.60M	0	340	70	42
Mar 2022	221	14.18M	0	100	1	64
Feb 2022	221	19.69M	0	125	38	107
Jan 2022	221	20.95M	0	64	69	61
Dec 2021	221	25.96M	0	95	34	41
Nov 2021	221	28.53M	0	129	33	39
Oct 2021	221	32.42M	0	112	24	47
Sep 2021	221	31.79M	0	98	1	49
Aug 2021	221	32.44M	0	135	39	43
Jul 2021	221	43.25M	0	117	34	45
Jun 2021	221	42.40M	0	63	6	59
May 2021	221	36.55M	0	63	23	46
Apr 2021	221	31.51M	0	10	31	41
Mar 2021	221	182.02M	0	31	5	4
Feb 2021	221	156.91M	0	2	23	110
Jan 2021	221	156.57M	0	5	21	78
Dec 2020	221	137.49M	0	79	34	48
Nov 2020	221	238.90M	0	35	20	47
Oct 2020	221	296.50M	0	28	26	41
Sep 2020	221	276.77M	0	30	35	44
Aug 2020	220	238.60M	0	28	41	39
Jul 2020	219	49.67M	0	21	60	43
Jun 2020	219	124.34M	0	33	4,147	68
May 2020	219	231.32M	0	29	1,670	49
Apr 2020	217	287.55M	0	18	52	53
Mar 2020	213	334.85M	0	26	45	58
Feb 2020	212	267.22M	0	24	25	102
Jan 2020	212	255.28M	0	28	32	74
Dec 2019	212	243.97M	0	23	37	40
Nov 2019	211	278.04M	0	27	21	43
Oct 2019	210	192.45M	0	31	34	37
Sep 2019	210	152.47M	0	20	53	38
Aug 2019	210	134.01M	0	29	37	46
Jul 2019	210	61.44M	0	34	67	40
Jun 2019	210	56.60M	0	21	46	49
May 2019	209	60.19M	0	75	104	67
Apr 2019	207	63.76M	0	5,638	67	56
Mar 2019	206	64.10M	0	24	37	80
Feb 2019	206	53.47M	0	30	34	116
Jan 2019	203	60.19M	0	34	36	108
Dec 2018	204	72.67M	0	31	51	52
Nov 2018	203	14.36M	0	33	49	47
Oct 2018	203	67.95M	0	30	40	39
Sep 2018	202	105.96M	0	34	42	41
Aug 2018	202	120.36M	0	40	57	36
Jul 2018	201	122.15M	0	63	57	47
Jun 2018	198	201.83M	0	86	50	67
May 2018	197	233.12M	0	44	57	59
Apr 2018	196	99.73M	0	121	106	57
Mar 2018	195	69.09M	0	36	45	82
Feb 2018	194	99.47M	0	30	33	122
Jan 2018	194	70.19M	0	32	41	109

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.