Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2014-01 · Dog Beach, LLC

.dance TLD stats

.dance held 8,527 names in September 2025, as Dog Beach, LLC reported to ICANN; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 8,706. 128 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, GoDaddy.com, LLC, held 18.0%.

8,527
names, September 2025, reported to ICANN
8,706
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026
128
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 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 March 2015, 36 registrars held 10 or more .dance names and the largest held 22%; by its twelfth, to March 2026, 58 did and the largest held 18%.

  1. 1 · to Mar 20154,0693622%
  2. 2 · to Mar 20165,0674024%
  3. 3 · to Mar 20175,3884124%
  4. 4 · to Mar 20186,4694727%
  5. 5 · to Mar 20197,6435022%
  6. 6 · to Mar 20207,7355220%
  7. 7 · to Mar 20218,0925020%
  8. 8 · to Mar 20228,6385318%
  9. 9 · to Mar 20238,4905418%
  10. 10 · to Mar 20249,0875820%
  11. 11 · to Mar 20258,3025818%
  12. 12 · to Mar 20268,7195818%

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

September 2025

GoDaddy.com, LLC held 18.0% of .dance names in September 2025; the largest five together held 50.6%.

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

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .dance among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 7 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 8,527 names for Sep 2025; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 179 more. The two are counted differently and 13 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
+12
left it
−5
changed nameservers
7
Net
+7
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 8,706 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers1431.6%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers510.6%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers7,69588.4%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name8179.4%

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 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
Sep 2025 to Sep 2025

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