Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2014-09 · Charleston Road Registry Inc.

.channel TLD stats

Sep 2014 to Aug 2026
Names in the zone
2,895
Sep 20, 2026 · registry zone file
Domains under management
3,255
May 2026 · registry report
Last night’s movement
−4
4 in · 8 out
Listed for sale
0.2%
7 names · of the zone

Cross-checkThe registry reported 3,255 domains under management for May 2026 — −360 against last night’s zone. Undelegated and on-hold names never reach the zone, so the two will not agree, and neither is wrong.

last night, in detail

Sep 20, 2026
What moved · on Sep 20, 2026
entered the zone
+4
left it
−8
changed nameservers
1
Net
−4
Sep 16, 2026 to Sep 20, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 2,895 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers70.2%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers1043.6%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers2,47285.4%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name31210.8%

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: 0.6%. List 2026.09.2+psl4b673689.

Counted from the registry’s own zone file on the night of Sep 20, 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.

Aug 2026: 2,973 — third-party estimate; the registry has not published that month yet.

how many names

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Dashed months are third-party estimates. Sunrise May 2022 to Jun 2022; general registration Jun 2022.

everything else