New gTLD · delegated 2014-03 · dot Bid Limited

.bid TLD stats

.bid held 69,578 names in December 2025, as dot Bid Limited reported to ICANN; its zone file on 24 Oct 2026 carried 54,172. 118 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, Dynadot, LLC, held 56.1%. .bid fell by about half in its sixth year, from 125,523 to 25,323.

69,578
names, December 2025, reported to ICANN
54,172
in the zone file, 24 Oct 2026
118
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, June 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 May 2015, 37 registrars held 10 or more .bid names and the largest held 33%; by its twelfth, to May 2026, 57 did and the largest held 56%.

  1. 1 · to May 20153,6113733%
  2. 2 · to May 2016363,7515874%
  3. 3 · to May 2017470,1077129%
  4. 4 · to May 2018379,7636559%
  5. 5 · to May 2019125,5235777%
  6. 6 · to May 202025,3235430%
  7. 7 · to May 202119,4245526%
  8. 8 · to May 202219,3465823%
  9. 9 · to May 202324,2705419%
  10. 10 · to May 202423,7565919%
  11. 11 · to May 202562,7245650%
  12. 12 · to May 202646,1365756%

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

Dynadot, LLC held 56.1% of .bid names in December 2025; the largest five together held 83.2%.

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 .bid 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 69,578 names for Dec 2025; the zone on Oct 24, 2026 held 15,406 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
+139
left it
−31
changed nameservers
75
Net
+108
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 54,172 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers7331.4%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers6521.2%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers49,73891.8%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name3,0495.6%

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: 0.1%. 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 2014 to May 2014; general registration Jun 2014.

everything else