New gTLD · delegated 2015-04 · Binky Moon, LLC

.cafe TLD stats

.cafe held 23,744 names in March 2025, as Binky Moon, LLC reported to ICANN; its zone file on 24 Oct 2026 carried 25,401. 205 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, GoDaddy.com, LLC, held 22.9%.

23,744
names, March 2025, reported to ICANN
25,401
in the zone file, 24 Oct 2026
205
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, July 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 June 2016, 57 registrars held 10 or more .cafe names and the largest held 25%; by its tenth, to June 2025, 96 did and the largest held 23%.

  1. 1 · to Jun 20167,7985725%
  2. 2 · to Jun 201710,4156930%
  3. 3 · to Jun 201815,1007432%
  4. 4 · to Jun 201916,1127331%
  5. 5 · to Jun 202016,3657931%
  6. 6 · to Jun 202119,6888827%
  7. 7 · to Jun 202221,9599026%
  8. 8 · to Jun 202323,2579825%
  9. 9 · to Jun 202424,11510024%
  10. 10 · to Jun 202523,2929623%

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

March 2025

GoDaddy.com, LLC held 22.9% of .cafe names in March 2025; the largest five together held 50.2%.

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

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .cafe 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 23,744 names for Mar 2025; the zone on Oct 24, 2026 held 1,657 more. The two are counted differently and 19 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
+33
left it
−29
changed nameservers
28
Net
+4
Sep 15, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 25,401 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers9973.9%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers1770.7%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers22,12487.1%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name2,1038.3%

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: 0.5%. 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
Mar 2025 to Mar 2025

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Sunrise May 2015 to Jul 2015; general registration Jul 2015.

everything else