New gTLD · delegated 2013-12 · Binky Moon, LLC

.education TLD stats

.education held 31,539 names in April 2026, as Binky Moon, LLC reported to ICANN; its zone file on 24 Oct 2026 carried 30,035. 231 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, GoDaddy.com, LLC, held 26.6%.

31,539
names, April 2026, reported to ICANN
30,035
in the zone file, 24 Oct 2026
231
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, March 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 February 2015, 62 registrars held 10 or more .education names and the largest held 34%; by its twelfth, to February 2026, 105 did and the largest held 27%.

  1. 1 · to Feb 201514,9156234%
  2. 2 · to Feb 201618,6526537%
  3. 3 · to Feb 201720,4916937%
  4. 4 · to Feb 201822,5217338%
  5. 5 · to Feb 201923,7547636%
  6. 6 · to Feb 202025,3178135%
  7. 7 · to Feb 202129,7369132%
  8. 8 · to Feb 202232,0649131%
  9. 9 · to Feb 202332,4599130%
  10. 10 · to Feb 202432,59110028%
  11. 11 · to Feb 202531,34210528%
  12. 12 · to Feb 202631,02810527%

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

April 2026

GoDaddy.com, LLC held 26.6% of .education names in April 2026; the largest five together held 52.8%.

Shares add to 100%. From the registry's report for April 2026.

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .education among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 5 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 31,539 names for Apr 2026; the zone on Oct 24, 2026 held 1,504 fewer. The two are counted differently and 6 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
+13
left it
−10
changed nameservers
22
Net
+3
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 30,035 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers4461.5%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers2040.7%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers25,84886.1%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name3,53711.8%

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 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
Apr 2026 to Apr 2026

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Sunrise Jan 2014 to Mar 2014; general registration Mar 2014.

everything else