Stats
Legacy gTLD · delegated 2001-09 · GoDaddy Registry

.biz TLD stats

.biz held 1,278,640 names in May 2026, as GoDaddy Registry reported to ICANN; its zone file on 24 Oct 2026 carried 1,302,339. 357 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, GoDaddy.com, LLC, held 21.9%.

1.28M
names, May 2026, reported to ICANN
1.30M
in the zone file, 24 Oct 2026
357
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, September 2006

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 seventh year, to August 2008, 191 registrars held 10 or more .biz names and the largest held 27%; by its 24th, to August 2025, 270 did and the largest held 23%.

  1. 6 · to Aug 2007fewer than nine monthly reports
  2. 7 · to Aug 20082.05M19127%
  3. 8 · to Aug 2009fewer than nine monthly reports
  4. 9 · to Aug 2010fewer than nine monthly reports
  5. 10 · to Aug 20112.18M23530%
  6. 11 · to Aug 20122.33M24830%
  7. 12 · to Aug 20132.48M26128%
  8. 13 · to Aug 20142.71M26423%
  9. 14 · to Aug 20152.24M26725%
  10. 15 · to Aug 20162.28M28322%
  11. 16 · to Aug 20172.14M26823%
  12. 17 · to Aug 20182.29M27122%
  13. 18 · to Aug 20191.71M27125%
  14. 19 · to Aug 20201.44M28726%
  15. 20 · to Aug 20211.45M26726%
  16. 21 · to Aug 20221.47M26325%
  17. 22 · to Aug 20231.34M27626%
  18. 23 · to Aug 20241.26M26524%
  19. 24 · to Aug 20251.26M27023%

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 2026

GoDaddy.com, LLC held 21.9% of .biz names in May 2026; the largest five together held 44.0%.

Shares add to 100%. From the registry's report for May 2026.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 1,278,640 names for May 2026; the zone on Oct 24, 2026 held 23,699 more. The two are counted differently and 5 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
+622
left it
−755
changed nameservers
1,623
Net
−133
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 1,302,339 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers16,0701.2%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers17,0601.3%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers936,37971.9%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name332,83025.6%

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: 0.3%. 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
May 2026 to May 2026

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly.

everything else