Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2015-02 · ZDNS International Limited

.fans TLD stats

.fans held 9,029 names in October 2025, as ZDNS International Limited reported to ICANN; its zone file on 24 Oct 2026 carried 9,811. 126 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, NameCheap, Inc., held 14.8%. .fans fell by about half in its third year, from 8,872 to 1,726 and has since grown back to 9,029.

9,029
names, October 2025, reported to ICANN
9,811
in the zone file, 24 Oct 2026
126
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, September 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 August 2016, 22 registrars held 10 or more .fans names and the largest held 91%; by its tenth, to August 2025, 55 did and the largest held 15%.

  1. 1 · to Aug 201618,0392291%
  2. 2 · to Aug 20178,8722583%
  3. 3 · to Aug 20181,7262816%
  4. 4 · to Aug 20191,6682717%
  5. 5 · to Aug 20202,5943316%
  6. 6 · to Aug 20216,3774325%
  7. 7 · to Aug 20228,7554734%
  8. 8 · to Aug 20238,9724427%
  9. 9 · to Aug 20248,6134720%
  10. 10 · to Aug 20258,8745515%

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

October 2025

NameCheap, Inc. held 14.8% of .fans names in October 2025; the largest five together held 50.8%.

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

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .fans among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 4 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 9,029 names for Oct 2025; the zone on Oct 24, 2026 held 782 more. The two are counted differently and 12 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
+21
left it
−7
changed nameservers
5
Net
+14
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 9,811 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers700.7%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers941.0%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers8,33985.0%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name1,30813.3%

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
Oct 2025 to Oct 2025

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

everything else