Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2015-06 · Aruba

.cloud TLD stats

.cloud held 491,661 names in February 2026, as Aruba reported to ICANN; its zone file on 24 Oct 2026 carried 568,762. 151 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, HOSTINGER operations, UAB, held 17.1%.

491,661
names, February 2026, reported to ICANN
568,762
in the zone file, 24 Oct 2026
151
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, 70 registrars held 10 or more .cloud names and the largest held 43%; by its tenth, to December 2025, 130 did and the largest held 13%.

  1. 1 · to Dec 201689,1197043%
  2. 2 · to Dec 2017128,7147647%
  3. 3 · to Dec 2018178,8308230%
  4. 4 · to Dec 2019201,5469422%
  5. 5 · to Dec 2020210,0399524%
  6. 6 · to Dec 2021238,54710321%
  7. 7 · to Dec 2022264,53410718%
  8. 8 · to Dec 2023374,37112315%
  9. 9 · to Dec 2024414,18411913%
  10. 10 · to Dec 2025476,17313013%

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

February 2026

HOSTINGER operations, UAB held 17.1% of .cloud names in February 2026; the largest five together held 53.3%.

Shares add to 100%. From the registry's report for February 2026.

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .cloud among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 56 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 491,661 names for Feb 2026; the zone on Oct 24, 2026 held 77,101 more. The two are counted differently and 8 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
+1,060
left it
−639
changed nameservers
1,626
Net
+421
Sep 15, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 568,762 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers8,2551.5%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers9,7061.7%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers508,69189.4%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name42,1107.4%

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 2026.09.7+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
Feb 2026 to Feb 2026

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

everything else