Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2014-08 · Binky Moon, LLC

.business TLD stats

.business held 38,350 names in October 2024, as Binky Moon, LLC reported to ICANN; its zone file on 24 Oct 2026 carried 41,047. 209 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, GoDaddy.com, LLC, held 17.1%. .business fell by 39% in its sixth year, from 52,460 to 32,045.

38,350
names, October 2024, reported to ICANN
41,047
in the zone file, 24 Oct 2026
209
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, December 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 November 2015, 63 registrars held 10 or more .business names and the largest held 31%; by its eleventh, to November 2025, 132 did and the largest held 16%.

  1. 1 · to Nov 201510,9196331%
  2. 2 · to Nov 201613,9496730%
  3. 3 · to Nov 201725,2117928%
  4. 4 · to Nov 201862,4598470%
  5. 5 · to Nov 201952,4608363%
  6. 6 · to Nov 202032,0458830%
  7. 7 · to Nov 202130,6739725%
  8. 8 · to Nov 202232,76211523%
  9. 9 · to Nov 202335,53910819%
  10. 10 · to Nov 202439,11412817%
  11. 11 · to Nov 202537,69513216%

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

October 2024

GoDaddy.com, LLC held 17.1% of .business names in October 2024; the largest five together held 54.2%.

Shares add to 100%. From the registry's report for October 2024.

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .business 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 38,350 names for Oct 2024; the zone on Oct 24, 2026 held 2,697 more. The two are counted differently and 24 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
+516
left it
−29
changed nameservers
41
Net
+487
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 41,047 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers1,3843.4%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers7841.9%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers34,92785.1%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name3,9529.6%

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: 2.5%. 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
Oct 2024 to Oct 2024

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

everything else