.science

11,692 domains as of 19 Aug 2026

Domains

11,692

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: dot Science Limited
Technical backend: ARI Registry Services (GoDaddy Registry) via ns ptr
Delegated: 15 Nov 2014
Nameservers: a.nic.science, b.nic.science, c.nic.science, ns1.dns.nic.science, ns2.dns.nic.science, ns3.dns.nic.science
RDAP: https://rdap.nic.science
Zone data: CZDS access approved — counted daily

Do people keep it?

all renewal rates ›

Of the 8,231 domains that came up for renewal between May 2025 and Apr 2026, the share renewed rather than deleted. How this is computed.

Keep rate

75.25%

above .com/.net/.org

Renewed

6,194

in twelve months

Deleted

2,037

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 10 of the 108 reporting here. This grouping is our inference, not ICANN's.

12.00kreported Apr 2026

Share of .science by registrar
Namecheap2 accreditations	2,369	19.74%
GoDaddy4 accreditations	1,513	12.61%
Porkbun LLC	972	8.1%
Cloudflare, Inc.	713	5.94%
Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn)2 accreditations	638	5.32%
Squarespace Domains II LLC	557	4.64%
Tucows2 accreditations	491	4.09%
Key-Systems	469	3.91%
Gandi SAS	460	3.83%
NameSilo, LLC	355	2.96%
Other98 more	3,463	28.86%

12,000 attributed to registrars in Apr 2026, against 11,692 in 19 Aug 2026’s zone — the zone is 308 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, Nov 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.

Nov 2014 – Apr 2026 1y 3y 5y 10y All

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Month	Domains	Change	Registrars	Net adds	Deletes
Apr 2026	12,000	▲ +138	119	315	172
Mar 2026	11,862	▼ -39	119	227	285
Feb 2026	11,901	▲ +54	120	198	140
Jan 2026	11,847	▼ -17	119	188	217
Dec 2025	11,864	▲ +48	118	171	131
Nov 2025	11,816	▼ -4	116	162	174
Oct 2025	11,820	0	116	134	143
Sep 2025	11,820	▲ +4	115	142	140
Aug 2025	11,816	▼ -20	115	131	146
Jul 2025	11,836	▼ -4	114	150	161
Jun 2025	11,840	▼ -12	113	149	166
May 2025	11,852	▼ -54	113	110	162
Apr 2025	11,906	▲ +28	111	140	114
Mar 2025	11,878	▼ -39	112	139	178
Feb 2025	11,917	▲ +3	112	167	155
Jan 2025	11,914	▲ +55	111	177	137
Dec 2024	11,859	▲ +76	109	241	162
Nov 2024	11,783	▼ -5	110	206	176
Oct 2024	11,788	▼ -23	109	153	224
Sep 2024	11,811	▼ -83	111	112	197
Aug 2024	11,894	▼ -76	111	102	177
Jul 2024	11,970	▼ -93	111	110	206
Jun 2024	12,063	▼ -190	111	92	288
May 2024	12,253	▼ -61	109	98	174
Apr 2024	12,314	▼ -40	109	117	157
Mar 2024	12,354	▼ -60	109	89	152
Feb 2024	12,414	▼ -45	110	111	155
Jan 2024	12,459	▲ +14	111	186	173
Dec 2023	12,445	▲ +20	111	160	132
Nov 2023	12,425	▼ -11	110	147	164
Oct 2023	12,436	▼ -309	111	171	478
Sep 2023	12,745	▼ -202	111	161	356
Aug 2023	12,947	▼ -84	110	258	297
Jul 2023	13,031	▼ -435	110	180	659
Jun 2023	13,466	▼ -98	110	131	258
May 2023	13,564	▼ -131	110	160	289
Apr 2023	13,695	▼ -99	110	272	268
Mar 2023	13,794	▲ +81	109	226	250
Feb 2023	13,713	▼ -104	109	156	271
Jan 2023	13,817	▼ -69	109	193	263
Dec 2022	13,886	▼ -195	108	124	320
Nov 2022	14,081	▼ -121	108	175	287
Oct 2022	14,202	▼ -129	108	167	302
Sep 2022	14,331	▼ -185	108	139	330
Aug 2022	14,516	▼ -105	108	167	267
Jul 2022	14,621	▼ -113	107	159	281
Jun 2022	14,734	▼ -96	107	131	240
May 2022	14,830	▲ +289	107	557	291
Apr 2022	14,541	▼ -16	107	201	233
Mar 2022	14,557	▼ -105	107	143	270
Feb 2022	14,662	▼ -21	106	175	195
Jan 2022	14,683	▲ +62	107	209	135
Dec 2021	14,621	▲ +7	107	189	190
Nov 2021	14,614	▲ +29	106	218	191
Oct 2021	14,585	▼ -9	105	167	182
Sep 2021	14,594	▲ +24	102	181	156
Aug 2021	14,570	▼ -41	102	153	201
Jul 2021	14,611	▼ -4	103	215	197
Jun 2021	14,615	▲ +59	103	199	174
May 2021	14,556	▲ +63	102	246	172
Apr 2021	14,493	▲ +111	104	262	157
Mar 2021	14,382	▲ +100	105	276	161
Feb 2021	14,282	▲ +104	106	228	132
Jan 2021	14,178	▲ +233	106	323	108
Dec 2020	13,945	▲ +108	106	232	123
Nov 2020	13,837	▲ +106	107	187	94
Oct 2020	13,731	▲ +2	107	205	191
Sep 2020	13,729	▼ -5	108	194	203
Aug 2020	13,734	▼ -195	106	278	476
Jul 2020	13,929	▼ -81	105	198	284
Jun 2020	14,010	▼ -87	103	192	287
May 2020	14,097	▼ -56	102	198	264
Apr 2020	14,153	▲ +5	102	216	203
Mar 2020	14,148	▲ +39	102	208	175
Feb 2020	14,109	▼ -3	101	178	192
Jan 2020	14,112	▲ +34	100	171	158
Dec 2019	14,078	▲ +94	101	256	139
Nov 2019	13,984	▼ -1,294	100	196	1,495
Oct 2019	15,278	▼ -7,990	100	213	8,195
Sep 2019	23,268	▼ -6,979	100	185	7,178
Aug 2019	30,247	▼ -7,581	99	209	7,792
Jul 2019	37,828	▼ -6,959	99	209	7,178
Jun 2019	44,787	▼ -16,214	99	290	16,488
May 2019	61,001	▼ -6,376	99	271	6,664
Apr 2019	67,377	▼ -5,395	99	198	5,590
Mar 2019	72,772	▼ -8,661	101	162	8,853
Feb 2019	81,433	▼ -4,479	100	98	4,580
Jan 2019	85,912	▼ -3,974	100	101	4,079
Dec 2018	89,886	▼ -1,995	100	158	2,139
Nov 2018	91,881	▼ -1,553	101	89	1,668
Oct 2018	93,434	▼ -2,368	101	89	2,453
Sep 2018	95,802	▼ -3,099	103	139	3,241
Aug 2018	98,901	▲ +4,249	103	7,548	1,935
Jul 2018	94,652	▲ +5,872	103	7,017	1,468
Jun 2018	88,780	▲ +5,803	103	7,588	2,060
May 2018	82,977	▲ +4,836	104	7,670	2,870
Apr 2018	78,141	▲ +8,941	103	11,142	2,246
Mar 2018	69,200	▲ +7,733	104	11,070	3,495
Feb 2018	61,467	▼ -1,734	103	5,481	7,445
Jan 2018	63,201	▲ +6,067	102	9,501	3,425
Dec 2017	57,134	▲ +3,961	102	5,713	1,851
Nov 2017	53,173	▲ +1,731	101	4,073	2,587
Oct 2017	51,442	▲ +744	101	2,788	2,391
Sep 2017	50,698	▼ -2,959	100	2,226	5,081
Aug 2017	53,657	▼ -1,489	101	2,325	3,714
Jul 2017	55,146	▼ -89,814	101	4,035	93,710
Jun 2017	144,960	▼ -38,666	99	2,188	41,233
May 2017	183,626	▼ -43,525	101	1,674	45,278
Apr 2017	227,151	▼ -61	102	1,933	1,771
Mar 2017	227,212	▼ -993	102	2,227	3,212
Feb 2017	228,205	▼ -4,017	100	3,006	7,028
Jan 2017	232,222	▲ +330	100	2,159	1,824
Dec 2016	231,892	▲ +7,031	100	7,200	173
Nov 2016	224,861	▲ +6,457	97	6,497	43
Oct 2016	218,404	▼ -1,681	96	2,227	3,902
Sep 2016	220,085	▼ -9,456	95	2,814	12,276
Aug 2016	229,541	▼ -10,298	93	2,765	13,062
Jul 2016	239,839	▼ -81,195	93	1,904	83,047
Jun 2016	321,034	▼ -11,421	92	6,386	17,794
May 2016	332,455	▼ -17,405	88	4,467	21,650
Apr 2016	349,860	▲ +1,721	87	3,703	1,970
Mar 2016	348,139	▲ +5,312	83	5,323	32
Feb 2016	342,827	▲ +1,869	80	1,875	44
Jan 2016	340,958	▲ +1,905	78	1,907	3
Dec 2015	339,053	▲ +8,768	77	8,773	8
Nov 2015	330,285	▲ +1,985	74	1,985	3
Oct 2015	328,300	▲ +1,020	72	1,026	9
Sep 2015	327,280	▲ +98	72	101	5
Aug 2015	327,182	▲ +155	70	156	3
Jul 2015	327,027	▲ +11,636	68	11,637	8
Jun 2015	315,391	▲ +10,626	68	10,633	10
May 2015	304,765	▲ +74,810	64	74,814	32
Apr 2015	229,955	▲ +139,959	59	139,961	792
Mar 2015	89,996	▲ +46,780	57	46,780	11,031
Feb 2015	43,216	▲ +43,118	49	43,118	15
Jan 2015	98	0	2	0	0
Dec 2014	98	▲ +97	2	97	0
Nov 2014	1	–	1	1	0

Showing all 138 months in this range. Show the latest 6.

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

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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	Transfers in	Deletes
NameCheap, Inc.	2,209	18.4%	▲ +76	1	47
GoDaddy.com, LLC	1,469	12.2%	▲ +34	0	17
Porkbun LLC	972	8.1%	▲ +33	1	14
Cloudflare, Inc.	713	5.9%	▲ +80	5	5
Dominet (HK) Limited	635	5.3%	▲ +2	0	2
Squarespace Domains II LLC	557	4.6%	▲ +11	0	2
Key-Systems, LLC	469	3.9%	▲ +8	1	3
Gandi SAS	460	3.8%	▲ +1	0	2
Tucows Domains Inc.	436	3.6%	▲ +5	0	5
NameSilo, LLC	355	3%	0	0	7
CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.	280	2.3%	0	1	0
MarkMonitor Inc.	267	2.2%	▲ +8	1	1
OVH sas	227	1.9%	▲ +3	0	2
Dynadot Inc	195	1.6%	▲ +12	0	4
PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com	182	1.5%	0	0	15
Name.com, Inc.	164	1.4%	▲ +7	1	3
Spaceship, Inc.	160	1.3%	▲ +15	1	0
IONOS SE	129	1.1%	0	0	2
Cronon GmbH	123	1%	0	0	0
united-domains GmbH	121	1%	0	0	0
eNom, LLC	114	1%	▲ +2	0	1
Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE	97	0.8%	0	0	0
Reserved for billable transactions where Registry Operator acts as Registrar	97	0.8%	0	0	0
Domain.com - Network Solutions, LLC	94	0.8%	0	0	1
Network Solutions, LLC	93	0.8%	▲ +1	0	0
Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu	88	0.7%	0	1	16
GMO Internet Group, Inc. d/b/a Onamae.com	87	0.7%	▲ +1	0	2
1API GmbH	80	0.7%	0	0	2
InterNetX GmbH	79	0.7%	0	0	0
Automattic Inc.	67	0.6%	▲ +2	0	1
CSL Computer Service Langenbach GmbH d/b/a joker.com	61	0.5%	0	0	2
Ascio Technologies, Inc. Danmark - Filial af Ascio technologies, Inc. USA	55	0.5%	0	0	0
101domain GRS Limited	51	0.4%	▲ +3	0	3
Domeneshop AS dba domainnameshop.com	47	0.4%	▲ +2	0	5
Mesh Digital Limited	45	0.4%	0	0	1
DNC Holdings, Inc.	38	0.3%	▲ +1	0	0
West263 International Limited	33	0.3%	0	0	0
Chengdu West Dimension Digital Technology Co., Ltd.	32	0.3%	0	0	0
Hosting Ukraine LLC	26	0.2%	▲ +2	0	0
INWX GmbH	24	0.2%	0	0	0
Global Domains International, Inc. DBA DomainCostClub.com	23	0.2%	0	0	0
Scaleway SAS	22	0.2%	0	0	1
NETIM SAS	22	0.2%	0	1	1
COREhub, S.R.L.	21	0.2%	0	0	0
Ledl.net GmbH & Co KG	21	0.2%	0	0	0
Safenames Ltd	20	0.2%	0	0	0
EuroDNS S.A.	20	0.2%	▲ +1	0	0
GoDaddy Online Services Cayman Islands Ltd.	20	0.2%	0	0	2
Marcaria International LLC	19	0.2%	▲ +1	0	0
10dencehispahard SLU	19	0.2%	0	0	0
Dreamscape Networks International Pte Ltd	18	0.2%	0	0	0
TuringSign Inc. d/b/a Cosmotown	18	0.2%	0	0	0
Synergy Wholesale Accreditations Pty Ltd	17	0.1%	▲ +1	0	0
Sav.com, LLC	15	0.1%	▲ +2	0	0
RegistrarSEC LLC	15	0.1%	0	0	0
Instra Corporation Pty Ltd.	14	0.1%	0	0	0
Megazone Corp., dba HOSTING.KR	14	0.1%	0	0	0
Register.com - Network Solutions, LLC	13	0.1%	0	0	0
Regional Network Information Center, JSC dba RU-CENTER	13	0.1%	0	0	0
Realtime Register B.V.	13	0.1%	0	1	0
Soluciones Corporativas IP, SL	13	0.1%	0	0	0
GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC	13	0.1%	▲ +1	0	0
TLD Registrar Solutions Ltd.	12	0.1%	0	0	0
Wild West Domains, LLC	11	0.1%	0	0	0
Gransy, s.r.o.	11	0.1%	0	0	0
Diamatrix C.C.	11	0.1%	0	0	0
Vautron Rechenzentrum AG	10	0.1%	0	0	0
Super Registry Ltd	9	0.1%	0	0	0
Metaregistrar BV	9	0.1%	0	0	2
http.net Internet GmbH	8	0.1%	0	0	0
Nameshield SAS	6	0.1%	0	0	0
Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd.	5	0%	0	0	0
CV. Rumahweb Indonesia	5	0%	0	0	0
Easyspace Limited	4	0%	0	0	0
OnlineNIC, Inc.	4	0%	0	0	0
NameWeb BVBA	4	0%	0	0	0
Abion AB	3	0%	0	0	0
007Names, Inc.	3	0%	0	0	0
EnCirca, Inc.	3	0%	0	0	0
Web Commerce Communications Limited dba WebNic.cc	3	0%	0	0	0
Epik LLC	3	0%	0	0	0
WHC Online Solutions Inc.	3	0%	0	0	0
Go France Domains, LLC	3	0%	0	0	0
Variomedia AG	3	0%	0	0	0
URL Solutions, Inc.	3	0%	0	0	0
Lexsynergy Limited	3	0%	0	0	0
Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn)	3	0%	0	0	0
NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED	3	0%	0	0	0
Whois Corp.	2	0%	0	0	0
Webnames.ca Inc.	2	0%	0	0	0
Go Canada Domains, LLC	2	0%	0	0	0
OwnRegistrar, Inc.	2	0%	0	0	1
SafeBrands SAS	2	0%	0	0	0
Regtime Ltd.	2	0%	0	0	0
Register.ca Inc.	2	0%	0	0	0
Eranet International Limited	2	0%	0	0	0
İsimtescil Bilişim A.Ş.	2	0%	0	0	0
Sav.com, LLC - 3	2	0%	0	0	0
BB-Online UK Limited	1	0%	0	0	0
CommuniGal Communication Ltd.	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.

Month	Operational registrars	DNS queries (UDP)	Creates	Deletes	Renews
Dec 2017	105	974.50M	6,026	4,278	486
Nov 2017	104	87	4,346	1,777	459
Oct 2017	104	786.01M	3,163	2,787	273
Sep 2017	103	697.28M	2,185	2,296	213
Aug 2017	103	637.91M	2,314	3,367	221
Jul 2017	103	794.75M	4,300	5,343	591
Jun 2017	160	759.27M	340	37,351	76
May 2017	158	820.96M	7,280	66,677	434
Apr 2017	102	1.21B	1,653	15,726	602
Mar 2017	156	1.52B	2,836	10,907	1,407
Feb 2017	156	1.24B	3,961	10,288	507
Jan 2017	155	1.42B	2,316	16,075	406
Dec 2016	155	1.36B	7,897	10,660	271
Nov 2016	155	1.44B	6,875	7,964	235
Oct 2016	153	1.74B	2,083	6,042	290
Sep 2016	152	1.67B	3,869	10,803	73
Aug 2016	152	1.88B	2,824	18,006	124
Jul 2016	152	2.48B	1,929	9,473	197
Jun 2016	152	2.95B	7,320	84,575	58,303
May 2016	151	3.09B	4,577	23,100	64,116
Apr 2016	149	3.14B	3,972	24,093	48,406
Mar 2016	147	4.44B	5,490	1,154	514
Feb 2016	144	4.78B	2,057	1,145	572
Jan 2016	142	3.98B	1,979	3	213
Dec 2015	137	3.77B	8,927	11	92
Nov 2015	136	4.51B	2,508	10	19
Oct 2015	133	3.77B	1,109	3	9
Sep 2015	127	3.24B	1,372	6	8
Aug 2015	125	3.68B	169	6	2
Jul 2015	121	5.13B	10,515	8	1
Jun 2015	119	4.54B	10,717	4	1
May 2015	117	3.43B	75,133	34	9
Apr 2015	115	1.34B	140,889	810	3
Mar 2015	113	568.59M	58,559	11,045	4
Feb 2015	112	21.08M	219,994	19	4
Jan 2015	110	19.07M	1	0	0
Dec 2014	110	17.61M	194	0	0
Nov 2014	110	6.74M	0	29	0

Data currency. Domain counts on this page are from zone files dated 19 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.