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

.dance TLD stats

.dance held 8,471 names in December 2025, as Dog Beach, LLC reported to ICANN; its zone file on 24 Oct 2026 carried 8,710. 132 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, GoDaddy.com, LLC, held 17.9%.

8,471
names, December 2025, reported to ICANN
8,710
in the zone file, 24 Oct 2026
132
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, 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

December 2025

GoDaddy.com, LLC held 17.9% of .dance names in December 2025; the largest five together held 50.4%.

Shares add to 100%. From the registry's report for December 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 8,471 names for Dec 2025; the zone on Oct 24, 2026 held 239 more. The two are counted differently and 10 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
+7
left it
−3
changed nameservers
3
Net
+4
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 8,710 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers1421.6%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers500.6%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers7,70288.4%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name8169.4%

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 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
Dec 2025 to Dec 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