.observer

2,870 domains as of 2 Sep 2026

Domains
2,870
2 Sep 2026
30-day change
Signed in root
✔ Yes
DS record present
Type
Generic
ASCII
Registrar figures are for October 2016. 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
Fegistry, LLC
Technical backend
GoDaddy Registry (Neustar) via ns suffix
Delegated
27 Sep 2016
Nameservers
ns01.trs-dns.com, ns01.trs-dns.net, ns10.trs-dns.info, ns10.trs-dns.org
RDAP
https://rdap.registry.click/rdap
Zone data
CZDS access approved — counted daily

Do people keep it?

all renewal rates ›

Source: ICANN monthly registry reports

Of the 2,532 domains that came up for renewal between Jun 2025 and May 2026, the share renewed rather than deleted. How this is computed.

Keep rate
50.08%
below .com/.net/.org
Renewed
1,268
in twelve months
Deleted
1,264
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 Oct 2016 latest
Reserved for non-billable transactions where Registry Operator acts as Registrar — 1 (100%)
1reported Oct 2016
Share of .observer by registrar
Reserved for non-billable transactions where Registry Operator acts as Registrar1100%

Domains by month, Sep 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.

Sep 2016 – May 2026 1y 3y 5y All
09191,8382,7563,675Sep 2016Jul 2021May 2026
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MonthDomainsChangeRegistrarsNet addsDeletes
May 2026 3,403 ▲ +110 53 169 724
Apr 2026 3,293 ▲ +82 52 133 48
Mar 2026 3,211 ▲ +78 52 128 50
Feb 2026 3,133 ▲ +82 51 131 41
Jan 2026 3,051 ▲ +42 51 90 69
Dec 2025 3,009 ▲ +31 50 98 57

Showing the latest 6 of 117 months in this range. Show all 117.

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
2,7752,8002,8262,8522,87712 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
+140-1412 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
NameCheap, Inc. 877
87700%
▲ +36 1 34
Cloudflare, Inc. 558
55800%
▲ +59 0 4
Porkbun LLC 427
42700%
▲ +22 1 6
Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu 254
25400%
▲ +1 0 242
Tucows Domains Inc. 248
24800%
▲ +17 0 7
Namemart Limited 219
21900%
0 0 219
Spaceship, Inc. 124
12400%
▲ +10 2 16
Gname.com Pte. Ltd. 109
10900%
0 0 105
NameSilo, LLC 76
7600%
▲ +5 0 36
Name.com, Inc. 62
6200%
▲ +3 0 1
NETIM SAS 51
5100%
0 0 44
united-domains GmbH 42
4200%
▲ +5 0 0
TLD Registrar Solutions Ltd. 37
3700%
▲ +6 0 0
Gandi SAS 33
3300%
0 0 1
MarkMonitor Inc. 29
2900%
0 0 0
Key-Systems, LLC 28
2800%
0 0 0
101domain GRS Limited 27
2700%
0 0 1
Reserved for non-billable transactions where Registry Operator acts as Registrar 23
2300%
0 0 0
Above.com Pty Ltd. 19
1900%
0 0 2
Global Domains International, Inc. DBA DomainCostClub.com 16
1600%
0 0 0
Hosting Ukraine LLC 13
1300%
▲ +2 0 0
CSL Computer Service Langenbach GmbH d/b/a joker.com 12
1200%
▲ +1 0 0
Epik LLC 12
1200%
0 0 3
Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE 11
1100%
0 0 0
RegistrarSEC LLC 11
1100%
0 0 0
Sav.com, LLC 10
1000%
0 0 3
Gransy, s.r.o. 10
1000%
0 0 0
CSC Corporate Domains, Inc. 7
700%
0 0 0
Automattic Inc. 7
700%
0 0 0
EuroDNS S.A. 6
600%
0 0 0
Realtime Register B.V. 5
500%
▲ +1 0 0
Ascio Technologies, Inc. Danmark - Filial af Ascio technologies, Inc. USA 4
400%
0 0 0
Regional Network Information Center, JSC dba RU-CENTER 4
400%
0 0 0
Metaregistrar BV 4
400%
0 0 0
Easyspace Limited 3
300%
0 0 0
DNC Holdings, Inc. 2
200%
0 0 0
$$$ Private Label Internet Service Kiosk, Inc. (dba "PLISK.com") 2
200%
0 0 0
Ledl.net GmbH & Co KG 2
200%
0 0 0
Marcaria International LLC 2
200%
0 0 0
INWX GmbH 2
200%
0 0 0
URL Solutions, Inc. 2
200%
0 0 0
Synergy Wholesale Accreditations Pty Ltd 2
200%
0 0 0
Network Solutions, LLC 1
100%
0 0 0
Webnames.ca Inc. 1
100%
0 0 0
Dynadot Inc 1
100%
▲ +1 0 0
WHC Online Solutions Inc. 1
100%
0 0 0
Domeneshop AS dba domainnameshop.com 1
100%
0 0 0
CPS-Datensysteme GmbH 1
100%
0 0 0
Soluciones Corporativas IP, SL 1
100%
0 0 0
Beijing Guoxu Network Technology Co., Ltd. 1
100%
0 0 0
PlanetHoster Inc. 1
100%
0 0 0
WEDOS Internet, a.s. 1
100%
0 0 0
Virtualia LLC 1
100%
0 0 0

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
Jan 2018 105 18.16M 0 107 37 26
Dec 2017 104 16.45M 0 195 30 22
Nov 2017 102 14.46M 0 3,984 111 23
Oct 2017 99 15.61M 0 3,862 60 0
Sep 2017 95 18.36M 0 101 43 0
Aug 2017 91 20.41M 0 67 0 0
Jul 2017 87 18.93M 0 55 1 2
Jun 2017 84 19.14M 0 67 0 0
May 2017 82 18.11M 0 108 2 0
Apr 2017 72 15.27M 0 190 7 0
Mar 2017 64 15.10M 0 0 0 0
Feb 2017 43 12.89M 0 11 0 0
Jan 2017 1 13.85M 0 0 0 0
Dec 2016 1 6.52M 0 0 0 0
Nov 2016 1 4.08M 0 0 0 0
Oct 2016 2 5.20M 0 0 0 0
Sep 2016 2 730.37k 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.