Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2015-01 · GoDaddy Registry

.design TLD stats

.design held 116,450 names in September 2025, as GoDaddy Registry reported to ICANN; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 115,428. 167 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, GoDaddy.com, LLC, held 22.9%.

116,450
names, September 2025, reported to ICANN
115,428
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026
167
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, May 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 April 2016, 68 registrars held 10 or more .design names and the largest held 19%; by its eleventh, to April 2026, 120 did and the largest held 23%.

  1. 1 · to Apr 201641,4396819%
  2. 2 · to Apr 201764,2707719%
  3. 3 · to Apr 201876,9298521%
  4. 4 · to Apr 201995,2169816%
  5. 5 · to Apr 2020113,57910418%
  6. 6 · to Apr 2021128,81310618%
  7. 7 · to Apr 202286,3766525%
  8. 8 · to Apr 2023118,13311120%
  9. 9 · to Apr 2024116,98112322%
  10. 10 · to Apr 2025116,23911822%
  11. 11 · to Apr 2026119,04212023%

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 22.9% of .design names in September 2025; the largest five together held 66.2%.

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 .design among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 11 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 116,450 names for Sep 2025; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 1,022 fewer. 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
+121
left it
−121
changed nameservers
94
Net
0
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 115,428 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers2,1811.9%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers4190.4%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers105,39791.3%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name7,4316.4%

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 2015 to Apr 2015; general registration May 2015.

everything else