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11,696 domains as of 18 Aug 2026

Domains
11,696
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
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.

Month ‹ › Apr 2026
Namecheap — 2,369 (19.74%)GoDaddy — 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) — 638 (5.32%)Squarespace Domains II LLC — 557 (4.64%)Tucows — 491 (4.09%)Key-Systems — 469 (3.91%)Gandi SAS — 460 (3.83%)NameSilo, LLC — 355 (2.96%)Other — 3,463 (28.86%)
12.00kreported Apr 2026
Namecheap2 accreditations2,36919.74%
GoDaddy4 accreditations1,51312.61%
Porkbun LLC9728.1%
Cloudflare, Inc.7135.94%
Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn)2 accreditations6385.32%
Squarespace Domains II LLC5574.64%
Tucows2 accreditations4914.09%
Key-Systems4693.91%
Gandi SAS4603.83%
NameSilo, LLC3552.96%
Other98 more3,46328.86%

12,000 attributed to registrars in Apr 2026, against 11,696 in 18 Aug 2026’s zone — the zone is 304 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
094,462188.92k283.39k377.85kNov 2014Jul 2020Apr 2026
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MonthDomainsChangeRegistrarsNet addsDeletes
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

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

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
11,69411,69511,69711,69811,69912 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
+160-1612 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
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.

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