Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2015-03 · dot Date Limited

.date TLD stats

.date held 9,100 names in May 2025, as dot Date Limited reported to ICANN; its zone file on 24 Oct 2026 carried 11,081. 100 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, NameCheap, Inc., held 20.3%. .date fell by about half in its fifth year, from 67,042 to 11,125.

9,100
names, May 2025, reported to ICANN
11,081
in the zone file, 24 Oct 2026
100
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, July 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 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 June 2016, 47 registrars held 10 or more .date names and the largest held 45%; by its tenth, to June 2025, 51 did and the largest held 21%.

  1. 1 · to Jun 2016195,2104745%
  2. 2 · to Jun 2017102,6105725%
  3. 3 · to Jun 2018151,6744679%
  4. 4 · to Jun 201967,0424182%
  5. 5 · to Jun 202011,1254119%
  6. 6 · to Jun 202111,1574321%
  7. 7 · to Jun 20229,3614721%
  8. 8 · to Jun 20237,8645015%
  9. 9 · to Jun 20248,0105415%
  10. 10 · to Jun 20259,2675121%

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

May 2025

NameCheap, Inc. held 20.3% of .date names in May 2025; the largest five together held 60.8%.

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

Cross-checkThe registry reported 9,100 names for May 2025; the zone on Oct 24, 2026 held 1,981 more. The two are counted differently and 17 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
+31
left it
−6
changed nameservers
11
Net
+25
Sep 15, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 11,081 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers2802.5%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers640.6%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers10,05590.7%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name6826.2%

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: 0.1%. 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
May 2025 to May 2025

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Sunrise Apr 2015 to Jun 2015; general registration Jul 2015.

everything else