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New gTLD · live since 2014-04 · Binky Moon, LLC

.fail domains

.fail is a generic TLD, run by Binky Moon, open to the public since July 2014.

Is .fail a good domain?

Owners renew .fail domains more often than .com domains. From July 2025 to June 2026, owners renewed 79% of expiring .fail domains; .com owners renewed 74%. On 4 November 2026, 1.1% of .fail domains were listed for sale.

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The registry reported 4,774 .fail domains for June 2026. 4,364 were built on 4 November 2026.

.fail, day by day

4 November 2026
How .fail is used · 4,364 built domains
  • Listed for saleon a domain marketplace481.1%
  • Parkedshowing ads or an expiry page260.6%
  • Hostedon a web host, or with a registrar or DNS service3,66283.9%
  • Not known yet62814.4%
What moved · on 4 November 2026
newly built
+2
no longer built
−2
changed nameservers
5
Net
0
15 September 2026 to 4 November 2026

Built .fail domains on 4 November 2026. The registry’s own figure is the full count.

How many .fail domains are there?

.fail had 4,774 domains in June 2026, according to Binky Moon. That is up 11.5% on June 2025. 111 registrars sold it that month. Namecheap held the most: 11.3%.

4,774
domains, June 2026
+11.5%
on June 2025
111
registrars selling it

Domains since launch, July 2014

Year by year since launch

In its first year, to June 2015, 34 registrars held 10 or more .fail domains and the largest held 28%; by its eleventh, to June 2025, 43 did and the largest held 12%.

  1. 1 · to Jun 20152,4503428%
  2. 2 · to Jun 20162,8393923%
  3. 3 · to Jun 20173,0633920%
  4. 4 · to Jun 20183,8053616%
  5. 5 · to Jun 20193,9163919%
  6. 6 · to Jun 20204,1293812%
  7. 7 · to Jun 20214,3983816%
  8. 8 · to Jun 20224,1964414%
  9. 9 · to Jun 20234,4974412%
  10. 10 · to Jun 20244,4504512%
  11. 11 · to Jun 20254,2824312%

Who sells it

June 2026

Namecheap held 11.3% of .fail domains in June 2026; the largest five together held 41.9%.

  1. Namecheap11.3%
  2. Porkbun9.0%
  3. Domain Robot7.9%
  4. Cloudflare7.0%
  5. GoDaddy6.6%
  6. everyone else58.1%

Every registrar’s share of .fail →

2026 applications most like .fail

9 of the TLDs applied for in 2026 are closest to .fail. Each one has its own page and AI score.

.fail domains, month by month

Nov 2016 to Oct 2026

Dashed months are estimates.

every month and every registrar