Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2014-06 · DNS.be vzw

.brussels TLD stats

.brussels held 8,102 names in June 2026, as DNS.be vzw reported to ICANN; a third-party estimate put it at about 7,875 in October 2026; its zone file on 24 Oct 2026 carried 7,872.

8,102
names, June 2026, reported to ICANN
7,872
in the zone file, 24 Oct 2026

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, 24 registrars held 10 or more .brussels names and the largest held 41%; by its eleventh, to December 2025, 28 did and the largest held 43%.

  1. 1 · to Dec 20156,5892441%
  2. 2 · to Dec 20167,1312539%
  3. 3 · to Dec 20177,5232538%
  4. 4 · to Dec 20187,6702439%
  5. 5 · to Dec 20197,9912740%
  6. 6 · to Dec 20208,3882840%
  7. 7 · to Dec 20218,5022841%
  8. 8 · to Dec 20228,5212841%
  9. 9 · to Dec 20238,5492741%
  10. 10 · to Dec 20248,4632842%
  11. 11 · to Dec 20258,2582843%

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

Combell NV held 43.5% of .brussels names in May 2026; the largest five together held 77.8%.

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

Cross-checkThe registry reported 8,102 names for Jun 2026; the zone on Oct 24, 2026 held 230 fewer. The two are counted differently and 4 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
0
left it
−4
changed nameservers
8
Net
−4
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 7,872 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers350.4%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers20.0%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers3,51844.7%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name4,31754.8%

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.

Oct 2026: 7,875 — third-party estimate; the registry has not published that month yet.

how many names, month by month

Nov 2016 to Oct 2026

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Dashed months are third-party estimates. Sunrise Sep 2014 to Oct 2014; general registration Jan 2015.

everything else