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

.download TLD stats

.download held 8,230 names in February 2025, as dot Support Limited reported to ICANN; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 9,186. 104 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, NameCheap, Inc., held 22.8%. .download fell by about half in its fifth year, from 36,665 to 7,835.

8,230
names, February 2025, reported to ICANN
9,186
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026
104
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, August 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 July 2016, 48 registrars held 10 or more .download names and the largest held 48%; by its tenth, to July 2025, 58 did and the largest held 31%.

  1. 1 · to Jul 201680,5754848%
  2. 2 · to Jul 201796,8185340%
  3. 3 · to Jul 2018131,6205083%
  4. 4 · to Jul 201936,6654987%
  5. 5 · to Jul 20207,8355139%
  6. 6 · to Jul 20218,7385137%
  7. 7 · to Jul 20228,3385337%
  8. 8 · to Jul 20237,8255328%
  9. 9 · to Jul 20248,4275523%
  10. 10 · to Jul 20259,8385831%

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

February 2025

NameCheap, Inc. held 22.8% of .download names in February 2025; the largest five together held 54.7%.

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

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .download 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 8,230 names for Feb 2025; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 956 more. The two are counted differently and 20 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
+25
left it
−18
changed nameservers
12
Net
+7
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 9,186 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers640.7%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers1161.3%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers7,81185.0%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name1,19513.0%

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: 0.2%. 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
Feb 2025 to Feb 2025

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

everything else