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

.brussels TLD stats

.brussels held 8,258 names in December 2025, as DNS.be vzw reported to ICANN; its zone file on 24 Oct 2026 carried 7,872. 37 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, Combell NV, held 42.6%.

8,258
names, December 2025, reported to ICANN
7,872
in the zone file, 24 Oct 2026
37
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, 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

December 2025

Combell NV held 42.6% of .brussels names in December 2025; the largest five together held 76.8%.

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

Cross-checkThe registry reported 8,258 names for Dec 2025; the zone on Oct 24, 2026 held 386 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
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.

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 Sep 2014 to Oct 2014; general registration Jan 2015.

everything else