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2,460 domains as of 18 Aug 2026

Domains
2,460
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
Charleston Road Registry Inc.
Technical backend
Google Registry via ns suffix
Delegated
29 Jun 2017
Nameservers
ns-tld1.charlestonroadregistry.com, ns-tld2.charlestonroadregistry.com, ns-tld3.charlestonroadregistry.com, ns-tld4.charlestonroadregistry.com, ns-tld5.charlestonroadregistry.com
RDAP
https://pubapi.registry.google/rdap
Zone data
CZDS access approved — counted daily

Do people keep it?

all renewal rates ›

Of the 1,906 domains that came up for renewal between May 2025 and Apr 2026, the share renewed rather than deleted. How this is computed.

Keep rate
77.96%
above .com/.net/.org
Renewed
1,486
in twelve months
Deleted
420
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 7 of the 37 reporting here. This grouping is our inference, not ICANN's.

Month ‹ › Apr 2026
Squarespace Domains II LLC — 470 (19.62%)Namecheap — 444 (18.53%)Cloudflare, Inc. — 328 (13.69%)GoDaddy — 307 (12.81%)Porkbun LLC — 229 (9.56%)Tucows — 135 (5.63%)Automattic Inc. — 116 (4.84%)Dynadot Inc — 60 (2.5%)MarkMonitor Inc. — 59 (2.46%)Name.com, Inc. — 58 (2.42%)Other — 190 (7.93%)
2.40kreported Apr 2026
Squarespace Domains II LLC47019.62%
Namecheap2 accreditations44418.53%
Cloudflare, Inc.32813.69%
GoDaddy3 accreditations30712.81%
Porkbun LLC2299.56%
Tucows2 accreditations1355.63%
Automattic Inc.1164.84%
Dynadot Inc602.5%
MarkMonitor Inc.592.46%
Name.com, Inc.582.42%
Other27 more1907.93%

2,396 attributed to registrars in Apr 2026, against 2,460 in 18 Aug 2026’s zone — the zone is 64 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, 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 All
06471,2941,9412,588Apr 2021Oct 2023Apr 2026
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MonthDomainsChangeRegistrarsNet addsDeletes
Apr 2026 2,396 ▲ +33 41 45 22
Mar 2026 2,363 ▲ +37 40 59 25
Feb 2026 2,326 ▲ +28 40 55 25
Jan 2026 2,298 ▲ +26 40 48 26
Dec 2025 2,272 ▼ -3 40 38 43
Nov 2025 2,275 ▲ +16 40 36 20

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

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
2,4572,4582,4592,4592,46012 Aug 2615 Aug 2618 Aug 26
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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
+40-412 Aug 2618 Aug 26

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.
Registrar Domains Share Net adds Transfers in Deletes
Squarespace Domains II LLC 470
19.6%
▲ +3 0 4
NameCheap, Inc. 369
15.4%
▲ +1 0 6
Cloudflare, Inc. 328
13.7%
▲ +14 1 1
GoDaddy.com, LLC 304
12.7%
▲ +4 0 0
Porkbun LLC 229
9.6%
▲ +10 0 1
Tucows Domains Inc. 129
5.4%
0 0 2
Automattic Inc. 116
4.8%
▲ +4 0 0
Spaceship, Inc. 75
3.1%
▲ +1 0 1
Dynadot Inc 60
2.5%
▲ +1 0 4
MarkMonitor Inc. 59
2.5%
0 0 0
Name.com, Inc. 58
2.4%
▲ +4 1 0
CSC Corporate Domains, Inc. 49
2%
0 0 0
101domain GRS Limited 23
1%
0 0 1
NETIM SAS 18
0.8%
0 0 0
Gandi SAS 15
0.6%
0 0 1
Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE 14
0.6%
0 0 0
CSL Computer Service Langenbach GmbH d/b/a joker.com 8
0.3%
0 0 0
Domeneshop AS dba domainnameshop.com 8
0.3%
0 0 0
Key-Systems, LLC 7
0.3%
0 0 0
Ascio Technologies, Inc. Danmark - Filial af Ascio technologies, Inc. USA 6
0.3%
0 0 0
Marcaria International LLC 6
0.3%
0 0 0
EnCirca, Inc. 5
0.2%
0 0 0
Soluciones Corporativas IP, SL 5
0.2%
0 0 0
united-domains GmbH 4
0.2%
0 0 0
INWX GmbH 4
0.2%
0 0 0
Sav.com, LLC 3
0.1%
0 0 0
Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu 3
0.1%
0 0 0
Devexpanse Ltd 3
0.1%
▲ +3 0 0
COREhub, S.R.L. 2
0.1%
0 0 0
InterNetX GmbH 2
0.1%
0 0 0
Wild West Domains, LLC 2
0.1%
0 0 0
Nameshield SAS 2
0.1%
0 0 0
Variomedia AG 2
0.1%
0 0 0
eNom, LLC 1
0%
0 0 0
Secura GmbH 1
0%
0 0 0
EuroDNS S.A. 1
0%
0 0 0
Lexsynergy Limited 1
0%
0 0 0
Gransy, s.r.o. 1
0%
0 0 0
GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC 1
0%
0 0 0
Reserved for billable transactions where Registry Operator acts as Registrar 1
0%
0 0 0
Reserved for non-billable transactions where Registry Operator acts as Registrar 1
0%
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.

MonthOperational registrarsDNS queries (UDP)RDAP queriesCreatesDeletesRenews
Dec 2017 52 24.85M 0 0 0 0
Nov 2017 52 17.49M 0 0 0 0
Oct 2017 52 17.58M 0 1 0 0
Sep 2017 0 15.19M 0 0 0 0
Aug 2017 0 16.35M 0 0 0 0
Jul 2017 0 16.72M 0 0 0 0
Jun 2017 0 4.17M 0 0 96 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.