.protection

102 domains as of 19 Aug 2026

Domains
102
19 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
XYZ.COM LLC
Technical backend
CentralNic (Team Internet) via rdap host
Delegated
13 Sep 2015
Nameservers
a.nic.protection, b.nic.protection, e.nic.protection, f.nic.protection
RDAP
https://rdap.centralnic.com/protection
Zone data
CZDS access approved — counted daily

Do people keep it?

all renewal rates ›

Of the 9,656 domains that came up for renewal between May 2025 and Apr 2026, the share renewed rather than deleted. How this is computed.

Keep rate
0.90%
below .com/.net/.org
Renewed
87
in twelve months
Deleted
9,569
in twelve months

For comparison, the median gTLD keeps 69.15% and .com, .net and .org together keep 73.25%. One caveat specific to this TLD: 1 filing in this window reports up to 9,536 renewals or deletions against a peak of 125 domains, which is not possible. The figure above is as filed; setting those months aside gives too few decisions to measure.

Registrar share

individual · combined

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

Month Apr 2026
MarkMonitor Inc. — 35 (30.17%)CSC Corporate Domains, Inc. — 25 (21.55%)Reserved for non-billable transactions where Registry Operator acts as Registrar — 13 (11.21%)Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE — 7 (6.03%)RegistrarSEC LLC — 5 (4.31%)Safenames Ltd — 5 (4.31%)GoDaddy — 4 (3.45%)Key-Systems — 4 (3.45%)Namecheap — 4 (3.45%)NameSilo, LLC — 3 (2.59%)Other — 11 (9.48%)
116reported Apr 2026
Share of .protection by registrar
MarkMonitor Inc.3530.17%
CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.2521.55%
Reserved for non-billable transactions where Registry Operator acts as Registrar1311.21%
Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE76.03%
RegistrarSEC LLC54.31%
Safenames Ltd54.31%
GoDaddy43.45%
Key-Systems43.45%
Namecheap43.45%
NameSilo, LLC32.59%
Other9 more119.48%

116 attributed to registrars in Apr 2026, against 102 in 19 Aug 2026’s zone — the zone is 14 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, 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
8999109118128Apr 2021Oct 2023Apr 2026
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MonthDomainsChangeRegistrarsNet addsDeletes
Apr 2026 116 ▲ +2 19 3 0
Mar 2026 114 ▲ +3 18 2 1
Feb 2026 111 0 17 0 9,536
Jan 2026 111 ▼ -2 17 0 2
Dec 2025 113 ▼ -12 18 2 14
Nov 2025 125 0 17 2 5

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 – 19 Aug 2026
10110110210210212 Aug 2615 Aug 2619 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
+10-112 Aug 2619 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.

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 210 7.34M 0 148 55 52
Nov 2017 208 8.00M 0 3,945 154 25
Oct 2017 206 7.41M 0 3,585 136 1
Sep 2017 204 8.18M 0 78 177 2
Aug 2017 202 12.89M 0 46 170 10
Jul 2017 199 12.29M 0 5 123 13
Jun 2017 198 12.81M 0 0 2 0
May 2017 196 12.62M 0 0 0 0
Apr 2017 194 11.73M 0 287 287 1
Mar 2017 191 8.70M 0 1 0 1
Feb 2017 189 7.20M 0 0 1 2
Jan 2017 186 7.80M 0 1 0 0
Dec 2016 180 4.02M 0 2 0 34
Nov 2016 179 2.43M 0 42 0 7
Oct 2016 175 3.07M 0 12 0 3
Sep 2016 173 2.99M 0 128 1 1
Aug 2016 173 3.15M 0 125 3 13
Jul 2016 170 4.58M 0 138 0 0
Jun 2016 168 5.63M 0 129 2 1
May 2016 165 5.78M 0 121 0 5
Apr 2016 160 3.09M 0 115 23 0
Mar 2016 157 5.94M 0 33 3 2
Feb 2016 155 8.49M 0 6 2 2
Jan 2016 120 7.44M 0 42 1 0
Dec 2015 114 5.90M 0 13 0 0
Nov 2015 111 8.49M 0 0 0 0
Oct 2015 79 6.16M 0 0 0 0
Sep 2015 2 4.76M 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 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.