Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2014-10 · Dog Beach, LLC

.band TLD stats

.band held 19,040 names in May 2025, as Dog Beach, LLC reported to ICANN; its zone file on 24 Oct 2026 carried 20,433. 151 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, GoDaddy.com, LLC, held 20.3%.

19,040
names, May 2025, reported to ICANN
20,433
in the zone file, 24 Oct 2026
151
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, January 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 December 2015, 45 registrars held 10 or more .band names and the largest held 26%; by its eleventh, to December 2025, 78 did and the largest held 20%.

  1. 1 · to Dec 20157,4664526%
  2. 2 · to Dec 20169,4865023%
  3. 3 · to Dec 201711,0825930%
  4. 4 · to Dec 201813,5136230%
  5. 5 · to Dec 201914,7136927%
  6. 6 · to Dec 202013,7746326%
  7. 7 · to Dec 202115,4416823%
  8. 8 · to Dec 202216,7827223%
  9. 9 · to Dec 202317,4127421%
  10. 10 · to Dec 202418,5347720%
  11. 11 · to Dec 202519,4617820%

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 2025

GoDaddy.com, LLC held 20.3% of .band names in May 2025; the largest five together held 53.6%.

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

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .band among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 6 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 19,040 names for May 2025; the zone on Oct 24, 2026 held 1,393 more. The two are counted differently and 17 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
+27
left it
−13
changed nameservers
18
Net
+14
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 20,433 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers1170.6%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers1150.6%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers18,39290.0%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name1,8098.9%

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: 0.2%. 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
May 2025 to May 2025

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Sunrise Nov 2014 to Jan 2015; general registration Jan 2015.

everything else