Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2014-02 · Public Interest Registry

.foundation TLD stats

.foundation held 36,197 names in December 2024, as Public Interest Registry reported to ICANN; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 31,188. 159 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, GoDaddy.com, LLC, held 30.7%.

36,197
names, December 2024, reported to ICANN
31,188
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026
159
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, May 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 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 April 2015, 47 registrars held 10 or more .foundation names and the largest held 25%; by its twelfth, to April 2026, 86 did and the largest held 30%.

  1. 1 · to Apr 20155,5234725%
  2. 2 · to Apr 20167,0685429%
  3. 3 · to Apr 20178,3715930%
  4. 4 · to Apr 201811,7856332%
  5. 5 · to Apr 201913,7346831%
  6. 6 · to Apr 202016,3237034%
  7. 7 · to Apr 202118,5327232%
  8. 8 · to Apr 202222,3527930%
  9. 9 · to Apr 202331,8608025%
  10. 10 · to Apr 202432,0238029%
  11. 11 · to Apr 202534,5588632%
  12. 12 · to Apr 202632,5028630%

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

December 2024

GoDaddy.com, LLC held 30.7% of .foundation names in December 2024; the largest five together held 66.9%.

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

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .foundation 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 36,197 names for Dec 2024; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 5,009 fewer. The two are counted differently and 22 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
+89
left it
−45
changed nameservers
22
Net
+44
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 31,188 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers8752.8%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers1290.4%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers27,48988.1%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name2,6958.6%

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: 0.7%. 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
Dec 2024 to Dec 2024

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

everything else