New gTLD · delegated 2014-03 · Internet Naming Company

.country TLD stats

.country held 3,059 names in April 2026, as Internet Naming Company reported to ICANN; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 2,619. 56 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, NameCheap, Inc., held 78.3%. .country fell by about half in its third year, from 6,067 to 1,059.

3,059
names, April 2026, reported to ICANN
2,619
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026
56
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, September 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 23 Oct 2026, a different count taken on one night.

Year by year since launch, as the registry reported it

In its first year, to August 2015, 22 registrars held 10 or more .country names and the largest held 63%; by its eleventh, to August 2025, 19 did and the largest held 81%.

  1. 1 · to Aug 20155,4692263%
  2. 2 · to Aug 20166,0671984%
  3. 3 · to Aug 20171,0592117%
  4. 4 · to Aug 20181,1072218%
  5. 5 · to Aug 20199972420%
  6. 6 · to Aug 20201,0292519%
  7. 7 · to Aug 20211,2122217%
  8. 8 · to Aug 20221,4252724%
  9. 9 · to Aug 20234,8532779%
  10. 10 · to Aug 20244,3642080%
  11. 11 · to Aug 20253,9011981%

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

April 2026

NameCheap, Inc. held 78.3% of .country names in April 2026; the largest five together held 87.6%.

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

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .country among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 5 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 3,059 names for Apr 2026; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 440 fewer. The two are counted differently and 6 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 23, 2026
What moved · on Oct 23, 2026
entered the zone
0
left it
−8
changed nameservers
1
Net
−8
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 2,619 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers180.7%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers50.2%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers52420.0%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name2,07279.1%

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: 0.0%. List 2026.09.7+psl4b673689.

Counted from the registry’s own zone file on the night of Oct 23, 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
Apr 2026 to Apr 2026

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

everything else