insights · 2026-09-07

Domain counts you can cite

We put our domain-counts record online, free, no account. Every TLD’s size and every gTLD registrar’s share, month by month back to December 1983. Every figure carries the month it covers and who reported it, so you can put it in an appraisal, a listing or an article and say where it came from.

methodology

The figures come from the monthly reports gTLD registries file with ICANN and from the country-code registries that publish their own numbers. Counts in this article are a fixed snapshot taken on 7 September 2026; the live figures are on the stats pages.

A number, and where it came from

Every figure on /stats carries two things a bare count doesn’t: the month it covers, and who reported it. A registry’s own filing is marked as reported. A third-party figure is tagged as an estimate everywhere it appears, including on the charts, where estimated months are drawn dashed.

That’s the difference between a number you can look at and a number you can put in an appraisal, a listing or an article with your name on it.

The record reaches back to December 1983, and country-code registries are in it alongside the gTLDs.

What’s in the record

TLDs covered: 1,611, of which 1,557 have at least one reported figure
months with data: 429, earliest December 1983
TLD-months: 190,865
registrar-months: 7,728,891
registrar accreditations: 3,904, registry-internal accounts excluded
publishers: 136
largest TLD: .com, 169,209,254, from the registry’s May 2026 filing

Registries file when they file

September 2026 is the latest reported month. Only 51 TLDs have filed it. August 2026 has 1,099.

So the default view on both list pages holds every TLD and every registrar at its own most recent report, instead of dropping everyone who hasn’t filed yet. Pick a specific month when you need to compare like with like.

The three pages

The TLD table ranks every TLD by domains under management. Search it, filter by kind (new gTLD, legacy gTLD, ccTLD, IDN ccTLD, sponsored) or by category, sort by size, 1-month change, 12-month change or net adds.

A page per TLD carries the whole history: a chart over one, three, five or ten years or the lot, a month-by-month table with net adds, deletes and renewals, and the registrar breakdown for that TLD with each registrar’s share of it. Delegation and sunrise dates sit on the chart where we have them.

The registrar leaderboard covers 3,904 accreditations, sortable by domains, net adds, renewals, or how many TLDs each one carries. Accreditations in the big registrar families roll up to the parent company, so you see the group’s total and not one accreditation at a time. Click through for that registrar’s book of business over time and every TLD it sits in.

One limit, up front: registrar figures are gTLDs only. Country-code registries don’t publish per-registrar numbers, so a ccTLD page has a history but no registrar breakdown. That one isn’t ours to fix.

How registries count

Domains under management means names at month end, and it counts names sitting in grace periods. It runs above a zone-file count for the same TLD. The two are measuring different things.

There’s also a reporting clock. A transaction is reported in the month its grace window closes, not the month it happened, so a name registered on the 30th turns up in the following month’s figures. If a month looks slow, check the one after it.

When two publishers disagree

Publishers count differently. Of the 1,557 TLDs with any figure at all, 1,050 have a most-recent figure that came from a third party, not a registry, and 194 have never had a first-hand figure from anyone.

An official ICANN filing is never overridden. Where two publishers disagree, you get a break in the series rather than a blended number, and no change is ever calculated across two different reporters. The gap is the honest answer, so that’s what the page shows.

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