.now

27,502 domains as of 2 Sep 2026

Domains
27,502
2 Sep 2026
30-day change
Signed in root
✔ Yes
DS record present
Type
Generic
ASCII
Registrar figures are for July 2017. 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
Amazon Registry Services, Inc.
Technical backend
Nominet via rdap host
Delegated
7 Jun 2016
Nameservers
dns1.nic.now, dns2.nic.now, dns3.nic.now, dns4.nic.now, dnsa.nic.now, dnsb.nic.now, dnsc.nic.now, dnsd.nic.now
RDAP
https://rdap.nominet.uk/now
Zone data
CZDS access approved — counted daily

Do people keep it?

all renewal rates ›

Source: ICANN monthly registry reports

Of the 9,680 domains that came up for renewal between Jun 2025 and May 2026, the share renewed rather than deleted. How this is computed.

Keep rate
69.76%
below .com/.net/.org
Renewed
6,753
in twelve months
Deleted
2,927
in twelve months

For comparison, the median gTLD keeps 68.71% and .com, .net and .org together keep 73.23%.

Registrar share

individual · combined

Source: ICANN monthly registry reports

Related accreditations combined into corporate families. This grouping is our inference, not ICANN's.

Month Jul 2017 latest
Reserved for ICANN's Registry SLA Monitoring System transactions reporting — 1 (50%)Reserved for non-billable transactions where Registry Operator acts as Registrar — 1 (50%)
2reported Jul 2017
Share of .now by registrar
Reserved for ICANN's Registry SLA Monitoring System transactions reporting150%
Reserved for non-billable transactions where Registry Operator acts as Registrar150%

Domains by month, Jun 2016 – May 2026

Source: ICANN monthly registry reports

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.

Jun 2016 – May 2026 1y 3y 5y All
07,23514,46921,70428,939Jun 2016Jun 2021May 2026
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MonthDomainsChangeRegistrarsNet addsDeletes
May 2026 26,795 ▲ +948 39 1,388 407
Apr 2026 25,847 ▲ +1,474 39 1,774 395
Mar 2026 24,373 ▲ +446 39 977 487
Feb 2026 23,927 ▲ +410 39 875 540
Jan 2026 23,517 ▲ +581 38 1,072 489
Dec 2025 22,936 ▲ +1,573 35 2,749 316

Showing the latest 6 of 118 months in this range. Show all 118.

Domains by day, 12 Aug 2026 – 2 Sep 2026

Source: Daily zone files

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

12 Aug 2026 – 2 Sep 2026
27,45927,61527,77027,92528,08112 Aug 2622 Aug 262 Sep 26
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Daily change

Source: Daily zone files

Day-over-day difference of the zone's name list, over the same window as the chart above.

  • Added
  • Dropped
+1100-11012 Aug 262 Sep 26

Registrars

Registrar figures are for May 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.
Registrar Domains Share Net adds Transfers in Deletes
Nameshield SAS 1
50%
0 0 0
united-domains GmbH 1
50%
0 0 0
Gname.com Pte. Ltd. 1
50%
0 0 0
Reserved for ICANN's Registry SLA Monitoring System transactions reporting 1
50%
0 0 0
Reserved for billable transactions where Registry Operator acts as Registrar 1
50%
0 0 0
Reserved for non-billable transactions where Registry Operator acts as Registrar 1
50%
0 0 0
Abion AB 2
100%
0 0 0
EnCirca, Inc. 2
100%
0 0 0
Global Domains International, Inc. DBA DomainCostClub.com 2
100%
0 0 0
NameWeb BVBA 3
150%
0 0 0
Lexsynergy Limited 3
150%
0 0 0
Gransy, s.r.o. 5
250%
0 0 0
Realtime Register B.V. 6
300%
▲ +1 0 0
Secura GmbH 10
500%
0 0 0
CSL Computer Service Langenbach GmbH d/b/a joker.com 12
600%
▲ +2 0 0
Safenames Ltd 14
700%
0 0 0
Tucows Domains Inc. 17
850%
▲ +3 0 1
Marcaria International LLC 25
1250%
0 0 0
CSC Corporate Domains, Inc. 26
1300%
0 0 0
EuroDNS S.A. 35
1750%
0 0 0
Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE 42
2100%
▲ +2 0 0
NETIM SAS 49
2450%
▲ +4 0 1
NicNames, Inc. 51
2550%
0 0 0
NameSilo, LLC 55
2750%
▲ +5 0 0
Variomedia AG 77
3850%
▲ +1 0 6
INWX GmbH 84
4200%
▲ +3 0 1
Global Domain Group LLC 92
4600%
▲ +9 0 0
MarkMonitor Inc. 108
5400%
0 0 0
Atom.com Domains LLC 140
7000%
▲ +30 17 0
Name.com, Inc. 199
9950%
▲ +22 0 0
Amazon Registrar, Inc. 271
13550%
▲ +28 1 1
Key-Systems, LLC 424
21200%
▲ +1 1 1
101domain GRS Limited 622
31100%
▲ +6 0 2
Unstoppable Domains Inc. 895
44750%
▲ +5 0 0
Gandi SAS 1,270
63500%
▲ +5 0 10
Spaceship, Inc. 4,266
213300%
▲ +195 21 133
Porkbun LLC 4,854
242700%
▲ +484 3 50
NameCheap, Inc. 6,129
306450%
▲ +204 3 175
Dynadot Inc 6,999
349950%
▲ +378 14 26

Registry activity

Source: ICANN monthly registry reports

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 Transfers approved Rejected
May 2026 80 859.00M 1.82M 1,422 232 309 23 4
Apr 2026 80 1.63B 1.96M 1,973 373 483
Mar 2026 80 1.61B 1.69M 980 410 271
Feb 2026 69 1.24B 1.28M 1,065 515 276
Jan 2026 68 1.32B 1.34M 1,127 496 446
Dec 2025 64 1.17B 1.45M 1,973 584 777
Nov 2025 61 975.97M 1.50M 2,470 492 489
Oct 2025 61 871.39M 1.04M 751 29 761
Sep 2025 56 827.35M 260.47k 529 195 1,021
Aug 2025 56 989.65M 1.00M 1,032 16 479
Jul 2025 56 1.07B 922.27k 3,653 37 97
Jun 2025 54 991.72M 585.83k 764 0 18
May 2025 47 1.46B 541.59k 553 2 7
Apr 2025 47 1.03B 550.15k 603 4 7
Mar 2025 43 955.05M 467.88k 837 1 5
Feb 2025 40 866.40M 414.08k 1,020 1 2
Jan 2025 38 812.54M 415.11k 2,213 7 1
Dec 2024 38 572.27M 418.94k 1,354 19 3
Nov 2024 38 615.46M 367.85k 1,859 5 1
Oct 2024 36 541.52M 228.25k 2,885 92 3
Sep 2024 32 347.65M 5.15k 4,502 2 3
Aug 2024 24 340.94M 2.07k 185 0 0
Jul 2024 4 299.10M 1.66k 0 0 0
Jun 2024 4 275.87M 1.34k 0 0 0
May 2024 4 284.74M 2.83k 0 0 0
Apr 2024 4 261.13M 1.16k 0 0 0
Mar 2024 4 229.56M 953 0 0 0
Feb 2024 4 186.99M 996 0 0 0
Jan 2024 4 219.69M 944 0 0 0
Dec 2023 4 213.90M 1.12k 0 0 0
Nov 2023 4 172.77M 940 0 0 0
Oct 2023 4 198.03M 697 0 0 0
Sep 2023 4 260.79M 0 0 0 0
Aug 2023 4 291.45M 0 0 0 1
Jul 2023 4 268.92M 0 0 0 0
Jun 2023 4 264.71M 0 0 0 0
May 2023 4 274.33M 0 0 0 0
Apr 2023 4 283.52M 0 0 0 0
Mar 2023 4 255.58M 0 0 0 0
Feb 2023 4 249.75M 0 0 0 0
Jan 2023 4 306.08M 0 0 0 0
Dec 2022 4 315.76M 0 0 0 0
Nov 2022 4 294.83M 0 0 0 0
Oct 2022 4 301.41M 0 0 0 0
Sep 2022 4 225.36M 0 0 0 0
Aug 2022 4 359.23M 0 0 0 0
Jul 2022 4 236.27M 0 0 0 0
Jun 2022 4 220.69M 0 0 0 0
May 2022 4 212.90M 0 0 0 0
Apr 2022 4 187.64M 0 0 0 0
Mar 2022 4 177.83M 0 0 0 0
Feb 2022 4 152.31M 0 0 0 0
Jan 2022 4 129.07M 0 0 0 0
Dec 2021 4 126.17M 0 0 0 0
Nov 2021 4 126.03M 0 0 0 0
Oct 2021 4 127.01M 0 0 0 0
Sep 2021 4 120.74M 0 0 0 0
Aug 2021 4 125.38M 0 0 0 0
Jul 2021 4 123.95M 0 0 0 0
Jun 2021 4 128.89M 0 0 0 0
May 2021 4 143.84M 0 0 0 0
Apr 2021 4 202.68M 0 0 0 2
Mar 2021 4 159.56M 0 0 0 0
Feb 2021 4 128.24M 0 0 0 0
Jan 2021 4 133.01M 0 0 0 0
Dec 2020 4 125.12M 0 0 0 0
Nov 2020 4 136.68M 0 0 0 0
Oct 2020 4 161.29M 0 0 0 0
Sep 2020 4 106.64M 0 0 0 0
Aug 2020 4 99.90M 0 0 0 0
Jul 2020 4 99.50M 0 0 0 0
Jun 2020 4 96.23M 0 0 0 0
May 2020 4 104.26M 0 0 0 0
Apr 2020 4 102.80M 0 0 0 0
Mar 2020 4 99.65M 0 0 0 0
Feb 2020 4 99.15M 0 0 0 0
Jan 2020 4 63.66M 0 0 0 0
Dec 2019 4 47.05M 0 0 0 0
Nov 2019 4 41.99M 0 0 0 0
Oct 2019 4 41.99M 0 0 0 0
Sep 2019 4 41.84M 0 0 0 0
Aug 2019 4 42.79M 0 0 0 0
Jul 2019 4 41.84M 0 0 0 0
Jun 2019 4 36.11M 0 0 0 0
May 2019 4 38.11M 0 0 0 0
Apr 2019 4 61.54M 0 1 0 0
Mar 2019 2 49.82M 0 1 0 0
Feb 2019 2 51.13M 0 1 0 0
Jan 2019 2 58.44M 0 1 0 0
Dec 2018 2 58.68M 0 3 0 0
Nov 2018 2 44.71M 0 0 0 0
Oct 2018 2 40.10M 0 3 0 0
Sep 2018 2 43.39M 0 0 0 0
Aug 2018 2 43.50M 0 1 0 0
Jul 2018 2 0 0 2 0 0
Jun 2018 2 44.32M 0 0 0 0
May 2018 2 46.93M 0 0 0 0
Apr 2018 2 45.70M 0 2 0 0
Mar 2018 2 46.23M 0 0 0 0
Feb 2018 2 41.47M 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 May 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.