Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2014-01 · Binky Moon, LLC

.cool TLD stats

.cool held 24,781 names in October 2024, as Binky Moon, LLC reported to ICANN; its zone file on 24 Oct 2026 carried 22,092. 198 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn), held 18.6%.

24,781
names, October 2024, reported to ICANN
22,092
in the zone file, 24 Oct 2026
198
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, April 2014

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 March 2015, 54 registrars held 10 or more .cool names and the largest held 34%; by its twelfth, to March 2026, 84 did and the largest held 18%.

  1. 1 · to Mar 20158,6375434%
  2. 2 · to Mar 201612,6226230%
  3. 3 · to Mar 201715,6156833%
  4. 4 · to Mar 201817,6347129%
  5. 5 · to Mar 201919,0787628%
  6. 6 · to Mar 202023,4577723%
  7. 7 · to Mar 202131,6367930%
  8. 8 · to Mar 202227,3678424%
  9. 9 · to Mar 202326,8078222%
  10. 10 · to Mar 202425,3539420%
  11. 11 · to Mar 202523,7268418%
  12. 12 · to Mar 202623,3978418%

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

October 2024

Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn) held 18.6% of .cool names in October 2024; the largest five together held 56.4%.

Shares add to 100%. From the registry's report for October 2024.

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .cool among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 30 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 24,781 names for Oct 2024; the zone on Oct 24, 2026 held 2,689 fewer. The two are counted differently and 24 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
+24
left it
−36
changed nameservers
12
Net
−12
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 22,092 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers7983.6%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers1190.5%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers19,19886.9%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name1,9778.9%

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: 0.4%. 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
Oct 2024 to Oct 2024

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Sunrise Feb 2014 to Apr 2014; general registration Apr 2014.

everything else