Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2016-04 · XYZ Registry

.baby TLD stats

.baby held 30,697 names in December 2024, as XYZ Registry reported to ICANN; its zone file on 24 Oct 2026 carried 90,972. 109 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, NameCheap, Inc., held 26.4%.

30,697
names, December 2024, reported to ICANN
90,972
in the zone file, 24 Oct 2026
109
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, April 2017

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 March 2018, 13 registrars held 10 or more .baby names and the largest held 19%; by its ninth, to March 2026, 43 did and the largest held 47%.

  1. 1 · to Mar 20185561319%
  2. 2 · to Mar 20196851425%
  3. 3 · to Mar 20202,2352728%
  4. 4 · to Mar 20213,4893630%
  5. 5 · to Mar 20223,9023832%
  6. 6 · to Mar 20235,2893834%
  7. 7 · to Mar 202422,6354550%
  8. 8 · to Mar 202533,4844825%
  9. 9 · to Mar 202653,8054347%

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 2024

NameCheap, Inc. held 26.4% of .baby names in December 2024; the largest five together held 81.0%.

Shares add to 100%. From the registry's report for December 2024.

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .baby among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 1 applied-for string. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 30,697 names for Dec 2024; the zone on Oct 24, 2026 held 60,275 more. The two are counted differently and 22 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
+388
left it
−51
changed nameservers
40
Net
+337
Sep 15, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 90,972 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers1,4711.6%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers4840.5%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers88,08496.8%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name9331.0%

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: 0.5%. 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 2024 to Dec 2024

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Sunrise Nov 2016 to Dec 2016; general registration Apr 2017.

everything else