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

.foundation TLD stats

.foundation held 34,558 names in April 2025, as Public Interest Registry reported to ICANN; its zone file on 24 Oct 2026 carried 31,106. 161 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, GoDaddy.com, LLC, held 31.7%.

34,558
names, April 2025, reported to ICANN
31,106
in the zone file, 24 Oct 2026
161
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 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 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

April 2025

GoDaddy.com, LLC held 31.7% of .foundation names in April 2025; the largest five together held 64.8%.

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

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 34,558 names for Apr 2025; the zone on Oct 24, 2026 held 3,452 fewer. The two are counted differently and 18 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
+16
left it
−98
changed nameservers
9
Net
−82
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 31,106 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers8162.6%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers1170.4%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers27,48088.3%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name2,6938.7%

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 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 2025 to Apr 2025

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