.university

8,001 domains as of 19 Aug 2026

Domains

8,001

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: Binky Moon, LLC
Technical backend: Identity Digital via rdap host
Delegated: 11 Apr 2014
Nameservers: v0n0.nic.university, v0n1.nic.university, v0n2.nic.university, v0n3.nic.university, v2n0.nic.university, v2n1.nic.university
RDAP: https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap
Zone data: CZDS access approved — counted daily

Do people keep it?

all renewal rates ›

Of the 7,516 domains that came up for renewal between May 2025 and Apr 2026, the share renewed rather than deleted. How this is computed.

Keep rate

76.77%

above .com/.net/.org

Renewed

5,770

in twelve months

Deleted

1,746

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 11 of the 139 reporting here. This grouping is our inference, not ICANN's.

8.95kreported Apr 2026

Share of .university by registrar
GoDaddy4 accreditations	2,297	25.65%
Namecheap2 accreditations	867	9.68%
InterNetX GmbH	704	7.86%
Squarespace Domains II LLC	539	6.02%
Tucows2 accreditations	410	4.58%
Porkbun LLC	319	3.56%
Newfold Digital3 accreditations	271	3.03%
IONOS SE	233	2.6%
Cloudflare, Inc.	220	2.46%
HOSTINGER operations, UAB	210	2.35%
Other129 more	2,884	32.21%

8,954 attributed to registrars in Apr 2026, against 8,001 in 19 Aug 2026’s zone — the zone is 953 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

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Month	Domains	Change	Registrars	Net adds	Deletes
Apr 2026	8,954	▼ -1	164	737	144
Mar 2026	8,955	▲ +573	161	139	168
Feb 2026	8,382	▼ -14	160	105	128
Jan 2026	8,396	▼ -41	159	131	173
Dec 2025	8,437	▼ -12	159	137	138
Nov 2025	8,449	▲ +16	158	168	163

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

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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	Deletes
Global Domain Group LLC	3	0%	0	0
Devexpanse Ltd	3	0%	0	0
Scaleway SAS	2	0%	0	0
OnlineNIC, Inc.	2	0%	0	0
BB-Online UK Limited	2	0%	0	0
Inames Co., Ltd.	2	0%	0	0
Ledl.net GmbH & Co KG	2	0%	0	0
Name.net, Inc.	2	0%	0	0
Net-Chinese Co., Ltd.	2	0%	0	0
Regtime Ltd.	2	0%	0	0
NextName B.V. d/b/a RegistrarHub	2	0%	0	0
inherent SAS	2	0%	0	0
Gname.com Pte. Ltd.	2	0%	0	0
DNS Africa Ltd	2	0%	0	0
Virtualia LLC	2	0%	0	0
Brand Focus Limited	2	0%	0	0
Sav.com, LLC - 42	2	0%	0	0
Reserved for non-billable transactions where Registry Operator acts as Registrar	2	0%	0	0
PSI-Japan, Inc.	1	0%	0	0
Whois Corp.	1	0%	0	0
Secura GmbH	1	0%	0	0
Quantum Names LLC	1	0%	0	0
Domain-It!, Inc.	1	0%	0	0
EnCirca, Inc.	1	0%	0	0
DomainSite, Inc.	1	0%	0	0
Name SRS AB	1	0%	0	1
Host Africa (Pty.) Ltd.	1	0%	0	0
Turkticaret.net Yazılım Hizmetleri Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş.	1	0%	▲ +1	0
WHC Online Solutions Inc.	1	0%	0	0
Above.com Pty Ltd.	1	0%	0	0
Register4Less, Inc.	1	0%	0	0
CPS-Datensysteme GmbH	1	0%	0	0
Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd.	1	0%	0	0
Server Plan Srl	1	0%	0	0
Megazone Corp., dba HOSTING.KR	1	0%	0	0
XServer, Inc.	1	0%	0	0
GlamDomains LLC	1	0%	0	0
ProNamed LLC	1	0%	0	0
AccentDomains LLC	1	0%	0	0
BlastDomains LLC	1	0%	0	0
BlockHost LLC	1	0%	0	0
InsaneNames LLC	1	0%	0	0
EU Technology (HK) Limited	1	0%	0	0
DropCatch.com 380 LLC	1	0%	0	0
DropCatch.com 481 LLC	1	0%	0	0
DropCatch.com 514 LLC	1	0%	▲ +1	0
Arcanes Technologies	1	0%	0	0
NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED	1	0%	0	0
Dominet (HK) Limited	1	0%	0	0
Barbero & Associates Limited	1	0%	0	0
Zoho Corporation Private Limited	1	0%	0	0
İsimtescil Bilişim A.Ş.	1	0%	0	0
Sav.com, LLC - 2	1	0%	0	0
Sav.com, LLC - 4	1	0%	0	0
Sav.com, LLC - 9	1	0%	0	0
Sav.com, LLC - 20	1	0%	0	0
Sav.com, LLC - 26	1	0%	0	0
Sav.com, LLC - 37	1	0%	▲ +1	0
Sav.com, LLC - 49	1	0%	0	0
PS Internet Company LLP	1	0%	0	0
Nomeo BV	1	0%	0	0
NicNames, Inc.	1	0%	0	0
Reserved for ICANN's Registry SLA Monitoring System transactions reporting	1	0%	0	0
Reserved for billable transactions where Registry Operator acts as Registrar	1	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)	RDAP queries	Creates	Deletes	Renews
Apr 2026	1,642	684.28M	780.61k	173	143	279
Mar 2026	1,643	687.16M	842.65k	834	162	265
Feb 2026	1,642	587.83M	743.07k	124	159	273
Jan 2026	1,641	528.94M	808.05k	133	141	270
Dec 2025	1,641	595.76M	840.28k	138	204	227
Nov 2025	1,640	537.76M	781.37k	547	230	227
Oct 2025	1,635	512.18M	696.92k	219	173	285
Sep 2025	1,634	467.87M	660.49k	862	160	287
Aug 2025	1,630	511.16M	599.07k	187	104	274
Jul 2025	1,627	499.01M	521.03k	177	143	420
Jun 2025	1,623	481.15M	514.05k	129	131	303
May 2025	1,620	481.95M	514.61k	167	157	285
Apr 2025	1,618	454.13M	517.68k	178	133	284
Mar 2025	1,615	537.31M	482.19k	159	138	298
Feb 2025	1,614	465.89M	428.81k	140	211	269
Jan 2025	1,610	475.93M	432.42k	835	166	279
Dec 2024	1,607	443.26M	430.23k	755	133	269
Nov 2024	1,605	401.33M	403.86k	10,951	143	346
Oct 2024	1,603	409.81M	240.35k	3,847	152	277
Sep 2024	1,599	384.33M	70.27k	5,730	161	330
Aug 2024	1,599	376.32M	61.91k	139	137	297
Jul 2024	1,599	385.17M	58.77k	156	208	394
Jun 2024	1,597	365.92M	59.57k	2,595	164	307
May 2024	1,597	356.83M	49.14k	2,373	223	283
Apr 2024	1,597	448.83M	33.06k	4,906	161	214
Mar 2024	1,596	373.28M	45.14k	3,733	175	211
Feb 2024	1,594	331.77M	43.15k	134	146	269
Jan 2024	1,595	348.15M	52.77k	1,206	140	238
Dec 2023	1,595	338.57M	55.19k	2,852	136	208
Nov 2023	1,594	308.06M	62.60k	170	251	196
Oct 2023	1,339	322.64M	36.81k	4,905	166	266
Sep 2023	337	297.30M	0	110	145	284
Aug 2023	336	321.58M	0	1,607	137	247
Jul 2023	335	305.10M	0	496	134	332
Jun 2023	335	336.98M	0	225	241	257
May 2023	334	316.62M	0	168	178	642
Apr 2023	334	312.90M	0	199	139	370
Mar 2023	331	333.28M	0	172	132	192
Feb 2023	331	279.96M	0	163	215	220
Jan 2023	330	303.96M	0	213	221	787
Dec 2022	329	307.00M	0	160	265	875
Nov 2022	324	295.90M	0	181	209	849
Oct 2022	324	343.18M	0	290	191	913
Sep 2022	325	387.80M	0	227	159	854
Aug 2022	325	289.63M	0	268	134	827
Jul 2022	323	313.38M	0	145	156	972
Jun 2022	323	309.29M	0	173	135	883
May 2022	318	297.51M	0	297	141	493
Apr 2022	317	278.19M	0	269	140	187
Mar 2022	315	254.76M	0	192	98	184
Feb 2022	312	209.79M	0	170	97	574
Jan 2022	308	224.66M	0	625	121	782
Dec 2021	306	223.36M	0	763	117	897
Nov 2021	294	238.96M	0	2,086	108	863
Oct 2021	263	263.57M	0	331	96	813
Sep 2021	236	190.63M	0	257	106	847
Aug 2021	237	192.31M	0	207	102	782
Jul 2021	233	187.03M	0	169	94	872
Jun 2021	245	169.38M	0	167	78	867
May 2021	245	180.65M	0	198	89	733
Apr 2021	245	246.99M	0	180	77	740
Mar 2021	245	205.34M	0	240	105	800
Feb 2021	242	171.44M	0	145	258	519
Jan 2021	239	170.72M	0	1,551	82	167
Dec 2020	238	171.52M	0	176	130	325
Nov 2020	238	162.07M	0	143	87	125
Oct 2020	238	219.27M	0	149	163	161
Sep 2020	236	183.35M	0	134	128	186
Aug 2020	236	149.93M	0	142	90	175
Jul 2020	236	149.93M	0	133	87	234
Jun 2020	236	140.77M	0	120	116	294
May 2020	233	154.31M	0	169	136	151
Apr 2020	233	142.06M	0	122	435	166
Mar 2020	231	139.68M	0	252	121	152
Feb 2020	231	133.16M	0	118	115	186
Jan 2020	230	126.72M	0	511	136	159
Dec 2019	230	118.59M	0	127	165	175
Nov 2019	230	113.64M	0	165	111	144
Oct 2019	215	103.60M	0	108	342	169
Sep 2019	215	97.84M	0	113	194	188
Aug 2019	214	88.76M	0	128	107	168
Jul 2019	213	91.44M	0	161	140	293
Jun 2019	212	87.32M	0	141	118	231
May 2019	212	93.60M	0	176	114	140
Apr 2019	211	88.53M	0	186	122	127
Mar 2019	211	92.69M	0	153	89	139
Feb 2019	210	76.71M	0	155	92	157
Jan 2019	208	85.76M	0	155	176	120
Dec 2018	207	78.82M	0	121	135	202
Nov 2018	207	68.70M	0	221	141	118
Oct 2018	205	65.72M	0	202	107	149
Sep 2018	204	62.62M	0	341	230	171
Aug 2018	203	72.31M	0	195	136	194
Jul 2018	203	74.69M	0	141	126	293
Jun 2018	199	70.22M	0	124	139	267
May 2018	198	63.64M	0	131	114	154
Apr 2018	198	59.46M	0	137	94	148
Mar 2018	198	59.10M	0	653	71	169
Feb 2018	196	56.03M	0	149	85	125
Jan 2018	195	79.92M	0	158	80	120

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.