Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2015-04 · ShortDot

.cyou TLD stats

.cyou held 368,271 names in October 2025, as ShortDot reported to ICANN; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 537,038. 107 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, GNAME.COM PTE. LTD., held 37.6%. .cyou fell by about half in its third year, from 822,065 to 376,855.

368,271
names, October 2025, reported to ICANN
537,038
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026
107
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, June 2020

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 May 2021, 32 registrars held 10 or more .cyou names and the largest held 35%; by its sixth, to May 2026, 67 did and the largest held 33%.

  1. 1 · to May 2021118,2753235%
  2. 2 · to May 2022822,0653653%
  3. 3 · to May 2023376,8556118%
  4. 4 · to May 2024260,8714741%
  5. 5 · to May 2025288,9845829%
  6. 6 · to May 2026550,4986733%

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 2025

GNAME.COM PTE. LTD. held 37.6% of .cyou names in October 2025; the largest five together held 77.1%.

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

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .cyou 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.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 368,271 names for Oct 2025; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 168,767 more. The two are counted differently and 12 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
+1,383
left it
−936
changed nameservers
961
Net
+447
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 537,038 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers37,4297.0%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers7,0041.3%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers449,02683.6%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name43,5798.1%

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
Oct 2025 to Oct 2025

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Sunrise May 2020 to Jun 2020; general registration Jun 2020.

everything else