New gTLD · delegated 2015-02 · Binky Moon, LLC

.football TLD stats

.football held 5,933 names in October 2024, as Binky Moon, LLC reported to ICANN; its zone file on 24 Oct 2026 carried 6,575. 128 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, GoDaddy.com, LLC, held 21.6%. .football fell by 40% in its ninth year, from 10,341 to 6,215.

5,933
names, October 2024, reported to ICANN: 6,575
in the zone file, 24 Oct 2026: 128
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 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 April 2016, 46 registrars held 10 or more .football names and the largest held 33%; by its eleventh, to April 2026, 62 did and the largest held 21%.

YearNamesRegistrars with 10+Largest registrar
1 · to Apr 20164,6844633%
2 · to Apr 20174,6204932%
3 · to Apr 20185,2974828%
4 · to Apr 20195,0405028%
5 · to Apr 20204,8885128%
6 · to Apr 20215,7805624%
7 · to Apr 20226,0975323%
8 · to Apr 202310,3415436%
9 · to Apr 20246,2155721%
10 · to Apr 20255,9395823%
11 · to Apr 20266,5796221%

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 2024

GoDaddy.com, LLC held 21.6% of .football names in October 2024; the largest five together held 49.6%.

Shares add to 100%. From the registry's report for October 2024.

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .football among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 1 applied-for string. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Moderate (1):.ball

Cross-checkThe registry reported 5,933 names for Oct 2024; the zone on Oct 24, 2026 held 642 more. The two are counted differently and 24 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: +7
left it: −3
changed nameservers: 1
Net: +4

Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero

How the zone is used · 6,575 names

Listed for salemarketplace nameservers1412.1%
Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers350.5%
In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers5,60585.2%
Not classifiednameservers we can’t name79412.1%

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

Oct 2024 to Oct 2024

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