Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2014-04 · Binky Moon, LLC

.associates TLD stats

.associates held 3,984 names in December 2025, as Binky Moon, LLC reported to ICANN; its zone file on 24 Oct 2026 carried 3,733. 114 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, GoDaddy.com, LLC, held 20.3%.

3,984
names, December 2025, reported to ICANN
3,733
in the zone file, 24 Oct 2026
114
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, July 2014

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 June 2015, 32 registrars held 10 or more .associates names and the largest held 22%; by its eleventh, to June 2025, 42 did and the largest held 20%.

  1. 1 · to Jun 20151,8043222%
  2. 2 · to Jun 20162,4032822%
  3. 3 · to Jun 20172,8833222%
  4. 4 · to Jun 20183,5143818%
  5. 5 · to Jun 20193,4013522%
  6. 6 · to Jun 20203,4323622%
  7. 7 · to Jun 20213,5823822%
  8. 8 · to Jun 20223,8664120%
  9. 9 · to Jun 20234,0974219%
  10. 10 · to Jun 20244,0844220%
  11. 11 · to Jun 20254,0544220%

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

GoDaddy.com, LLC held 20.3% of .associates names in December 2025; the largest five together held 54.4%.

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 .associates 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 3,984 names for Dec 2025; the zone on Oct 24, 2026 held 251 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
+8
left it
−3
changed nameservers
6
Net
+5
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 3,733 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers571.5%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers160.4%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers3,25187.1%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name40911.0%

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: 0.3%. 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 May 2014 to Jul 2014; general registration Jul 2014.

everything else