New gTLD · delegated 2014-12 · ICM Registry AD LLC

.adult TLD stats

.adult held 6,696 names in December 2025, as ICM Registry AD LLC reported to ICANN; its zone file on 24 Oct 2026 carried 6,159. 81 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, CSC Corporate Domains, Inc., held 12.6%.

6,696
names, December 2025, reported to ICANN
6,159
in the zone file, 24 Oct 2026
81
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, June 2015

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 May 2016, 56 registrars held 10 or more .adult names and the largest held 13%; by its eleventh, to May 2026, 54 did and the largest held 14%.

  1. 1 · to May 201610,8115613%
  2. 2 · to May 20179,7915413%
  3. 3 · to May 20189,3565614%
  4. 4 · to May 20199,1725322%
  5. 5 · to May 20208,7515322%
  6. 6 · to May 20218,6455320%
  7. 7 · to May 20228,0915116%
  8. 8 · to May 20237,1965115%
  9. 9 · to May 20246,7905115%
  10. 10 · to May 20256,8485313%
  11. 11 · to May 20266,7095414%

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

December 2025

CSC Corporate Domains, Inc. held 12.6% of .adult names in December 2025; the largest five together held 48.2%.

Shares add to 100%. From the registry's report for December 2025.

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .adult among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 2 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 6,696 names for Dec 2025; the zone on Oct 24, 2026 held 537 fewer. The two are counted differently and 10 months apart: a registered name that is not delegated never appears in the zone, and a zone file is read on one night, a report at a month's end.

last night, in detail

Oct 24, 2026
What moved · on Oct 24, 2026
entered the zone
+2
left it
0
changed nameservers
1
Net
+2
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 6,159 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers841.4%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers2454.0%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers3,97164.5%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name1,85930.2%

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: 0.4%. 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.

how many names, month by month

to
Dec 2025 to Dec 2025

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Sunrise Mar 2015 to Apr 2015; general registration Jun 2015.

everything else