New gTLD · delegated 2014-11 · dot Cricket Limited

.cricket TLD stats

.cricket held 1,108 names in March 2025, as dot Cricket Limited reported to ICANN; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 1,050. 63 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, NameCheap, Inc., held 18.8%. .cricket fell by about half in its fifth year, from 20,546 to 1,568.

1,108
names, March 2025, reported to ICANN: 1,050
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026: 63
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, February 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 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 January 2016, 23 registrars held 10 or more .cricket names and the largest held 76%; by its eleventh, to January 2026, 22 did and the largest held 18%.

YearNamesRegistrars with 10+Largest registrar
1 · to Jan 201635,3572376%
2 · to Jan 201727,1113430%
3 · to Jan 201828,5482764%
4 · to Jan 201920,5462189%
5 · to Jan 20201,5681935%
6 · to Jan 20211,4422034%
7 · to Jan 20221,4182035%
8 · to Jan 20231,4602327%
9 · to Jan 20241,2602318%
10 · to Jan 20251,1222218%
11 · to Jan 20261,1042218%

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

March 2025

NameCheap, Inc. held 18.8% of .cricket names in March 2025; the largest five together held 48.4%.

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

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .cricket among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 1 applied-for string. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Moderate (1):.xiangqi

Cross-checkThe registry reported 1,108 names for Mar 2025; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 58 fewer. The two are counted differently and 19 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: +10
left it: −1
changed nameservers: 1
Net: +9

Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero

How the zone is used · 1,050 names

Listed for salemarketplace nameservers242.3%
Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers50.5%
In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers89385.0%
Not classifiednameservers we can’t name12812.2%

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: 0.2%. 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

Mar 2025 to Mar 2025

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Sunrise Dec 2014 to Feb 2015; general registration Feb 2015.