New gTLD · delegated 2015-09 · XYZ Registry

.car TLD stats

.car held 386 names in June 2025, as XYZ Registry reported to ICANN; its zone file on 24 Oct 2026 carried 305. 51 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, MarkMonitor Inc., held 14.3%.

386
names, June 2025, reported to ICANN
305
in the zone file, 24 Oct 2026
51
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, January 2016

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 2016, 12 registrars held 10 or more .car names and the largest held 18%; by its tenth, to December 2025, 7 did and the largest held 15%.

  1. 1 · to Dec 20164831218%
  2. 2 · to Dec 20174091116%
  3. 3 · to Dec 20183981216%
  4. 4 · to Dec 2019341817%
  5. 5 · to Dec 2020329818%
  6. 6 · to Dec 2021347817%
  7. 7 · to Dec 20223561017%
  8. 8 · to Dec 2023343716%
  9. 9 · to Dec 2024349616%
  10. 10 · to Dec 2025378715%

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

June 2025

MarkMonitor Inc. held 14.3% of .car names in June 2025; the largest five together held 51.3%.

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

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .car among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 3 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 386 names for Jun 2025; the zone on Oct 24, 2026 held 81 fewer. The two are counted differently and 16 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

The registry republished the previous night’s file, byte for byte. Nothing entered, left, or changed nameservers.

For the month, the registry’s Jun 2025 report says 2 added and 1 deleted.

Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 305 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers41.3%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers20.7%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers20266.2%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name9731.8%

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: 0.3%. 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
Jun 2025 to Jun 2025

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Sunrise Dec 2015 to Jan 2016; general registration Jan 2016.

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