Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2015-07 · XYZ Registry

.game TLD stats

.game held 6,997 names in May 2025, as XYZ Registry reported to ICANN; its zone file on 24 Oct 2026 carried 8,241. 103 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, NameCheap, Inc., held 22.6%.

6,997
names, May 2025, reported to ICANN
8,241
in the zone file, 24 Oct 2026
103
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, May 2016

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 2017, 32 registrars held 10 or more .game names and the largest held 20%; by its tenth, to April 2026, 45 did and the largest held 19%.

  1. 1 · to Apr 20172,5543220%
  2. 2 · to Apr 20182,1993314%
  3. 3 · to Apr 20192,2633510%
  4. 4 · to Apr 20202,313378%
  5. 5 · to Apr 20212,4513911%
  6. 6 · to Apr 20224,0644127%
  7. 7 · to Apr 20234,2174129%
  8. 8 · to Apr 20245,1764125%
  9. 9 · to Apr 20256,9804523%
  10. 10 · to Apr 20268,2094519%

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

May 2025

NameCheap, Inc. held 22.6% of .game names in May 2025; the largest five together held 60.3%.

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

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .game 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.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 6,997 names for May 2025; the zone on Oct 24, 2026 held 1,244 more. The two are counted differently and 17 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
+15
left it
−3
changed nameservers
12
Net
+12
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 8,241 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers871.1%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers530.6%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers7,25788.1%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name84410.2%

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

to
May 2025 to May 2025

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Sunrise Aug 2015 to Oct 2015; general registration May 2016.

everything else