New gTLD · delegated 2015-03 · ShortDot

.cfd TLD stats

.cfd held 556,460 names in December 2025, as ShortDot reported to ICANN; its zone file on 24 Oct 2026 carried 627,698. 78 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, NameSilo, LLC, held 36.7%. .cfd fell by about half in its ninth year, from 1,021,532 to 549,929.

556,460
names, December 2025, reported to ICANN
627,698
in the zone file, 24 Oct 2026
78
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, November 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 October 2016, 0 registrars held 10 or more .cfd names and the largest held 71%; by its tenth, to October 2025, 53 did and the largest held 39%.

  1. 1 · to Oct 20167071%
  2. 2 · to Oct 20177071%
  3. 3 · to Oct 20187071%
  4. 4 · to Oct 20197071%
  5. 5 · to Oct 20207071%
  6. 6 · to Oct 20216,8261649%
  7. 7 · to Oct 2022130,2554055%
  8. 8 · to Oct 20231.02M5753%
  9. 9 · to Oct 2024549,9294739%
  10. 10 · to Oct 2025518,0135339%

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

NameSilo, LLC held 36.7% of .cfd names in December 2025; the largest five together held 79.7%.

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

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .cfd among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 12 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 556,460 names for Dec 2025; the zone on Oct 24, 2026 held 71,238 more. 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
+1,584
left it
−712
changed nameservers
1,297
Net
+872
Sep 15, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 627,698 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers1,1970.2%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers13,8572.2%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers548,52687.4%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name64,11810.2%

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: 0.0%. 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 Oct 2015 to Nov 2015; general registration Nov 2015.

everything else