Names on the books at the end of each year since general availability, from the registry's monthly reports to ICANN, through May 2026. The marked point is the zone count of 24 Oct 2026, a different count taken on one night.
Year by year since launch, as the registry reported it
In its first year, to September 2017, 0 registrars held 10 or more .able names and the largest held 50%; by its ninth, to September 2025, 0 did and the largest held 60%.
YearNamesRegistrars with 10+Largest registrar
1 · to Sep 20172050%
2 · to Sep 20184050%
3 · to Sep 20195060%
4 · to Sep 20205060%
5 · to Sep 20215060%
6 · to Sep 20225060%
7 · to Sep 20235060%
8 · to Sep 20245060%
9 · to Sep 20255060%
Year 1 starts at general availability and each year is labelled by the month it ends. Registrars with 10 or more names and the largest registrar's share are read at that month. A year with fewer than nine monthly reports is left blank.
Who sells it
May 2026
Interlink Co., Ltd. held 60.0% of .able names in May 2026; the largest five together held 60.0%.
Shares add to 100%. From the registry's report for May 2026.
2026 strings our model compared with it
When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .able among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 3 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.
Sep 15, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 4 names
Listed for salemarketplace nameservers00.0%
Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers00.0%
In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers375.0%
Not classifiednameservers we can’t name125.0%
Read from each name’s nameservers on the night shown. Listed and parked are counted separately.
How we classify
A name takes the row its nameservers match on our provider list. Verification nameservers sit beside a name’s other nameservers, so they overlap the rows above: 0.0%. List 2026.09.7+psl4b673689.
Counted from the registry’s own zone file on the night of Oct 24, 2026. A zone count is not domains under management: a registered name that is not delegated never appears in the zone, and a name on hold leaves the zone while it stays registered. The two numbers will not agree, and neither is wrong.
Oct 2026: 4 — third-party estimate; the registry has not published that month yet.
how many names, month by month
Oct 2026 to Oct 2026
Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Dashed months are third-party estimates. Sunrise Aug 2016 to Oct 2016; general registration Oct 2016.