ccTLD · China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC)

.cn TLD stats

.cn held about 21,590,000 names in December 2025, by China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC)’s own figures; a third-party estimate put it at about 20,900,000 in June 2026; by 22 Oct 2026 certificates had shown us 1,638,448 of them, confirmed in DNS.

21.59M
names, December 2025, the registry’s own figure
1.64M
seen in certificates by 22 Oct 2026, a floor

Cross-checkThe registry reported 21,590,000 names for Dec 2025; by Oct 22, 2026 certificates had shown us 1,638,448 of them, 7.6%. A floor, not a count: a name that never appears in a certificate is not here, and one that does is counted only once DNS confirms it.

last night, in detail

Oct 22, 2026
What moved · on Oct 22, 2026
first seen by us
+99,909
gone from DNS
0
changed nameservers
0
Net
+99,909
Oct 16, 2026 to Oct 22, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero

Names seen in certificate transparency logs and confirmed in DNS, as of Oct 22, 2026. A floor, not a count of the TLD: a name that never appears in a certificate is not here, and we hold no zone file for .cn. The registry’s own figure is the count; this one says how much of it we can see name by name.

Jun 2026: 20,900,000 — third-party estimate; the registry has not published that month yet.

how many names, month by month

Mar 2017 to Jun 2026

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Dashed months are third-party estimates.

everything else