Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2015-02 · Binky Moon, LLC

.chat TLD stats

.chat held 41,999 names in January 2025, as Binky Moon, LLC reported to ICANN; its zone file on 24 Oct 2026 carried 57,218. 212 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, NameCheap, Inc., held 22.6%.

41,999
names, January 2025, reported to ICANN
57,218
in the zone file, 24 Oct 2026
212
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, May 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 April 2016, 48 registrars held 10 or more .chat names and the largest held 23%; by its eleventh, to April 2026, 123 did and the largest held 19%.

  1. 1 · to Apr 20168,5914823%
  2. 2 · to Apr 20179,7465834%
  3. 3 · to Apr 201812,0216528%
  4. 4 · to Apr 201913,2177128%
  5. 5 · to Apr 202016,1457721%
  6. 6 · to Apr 202119,9997822%
  7. 7 · to Apr 202221,9418021%
  8. 8 · to Apr 202327,4588322%
  9. 9 · to Apr 202440,4959323%
  10. 10 · to Apr 202545,5399619%
  11. 11 · to Apr 202656,94612319%

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

January 2025

NameCheap, Inc. held 22.6% of .chat names in January 2025; the largest five together held 60.5%.

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

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .chat 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 41,999 names for Jan 2025; the zone on Oct 24, 2026 held 15,219 more. The two are counted differently and 21 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
+73
left it
−94
changed nameservers
87
Net
−21
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 57,218 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers2,3404.1%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers5280.9%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers51,33589.7%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name3,0155.3%

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: 0.7%. 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
Jan 2025 to Jan 2025

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

everything else