New gTLD · delegated 2014-01 · DotGift, LLC

.gift TLD stats

.gift held about 5,065 names in August 2026, by a third-party estimate; its zone file on 24 Oct 2026 carried 5,188. .gift fell by about half in its fourth year, from 24,635 to 7,927.

5,065
names, August 2026, third-party estimate
5,188
in the zone file, 24 Oct 2026

Names since general availability, April 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 March 2015, 39 registrars held 10 or more .gift names and the largest held 51%; by its twelfth, to March 2026, 55 did and the largest held 15%.

  1. 1 · to Mar 20158,2743951%
  2. 2 · to Mar 201626,7795545%
  3. 3 · to Mar 201724,6355549%
  4. 4 · to Mar 20187,9275228%
  5. 5 · to Mar 20196,4225316%
  6. 6 · to Mar 20205,8135212%
  7. 7 · to Mar 20215,7925513%
  8. 8 · to Mar 20226,2886114%
  9. 9 · to Mar 20235,9485714%
  10. 10 · to Mar 20246,1525714%
  11. 11 · to Mar 20256,4505716%
  12. 12 · to Mar 20265,2915515%

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 2026

NameCheap, Inc. held 15.7% of .gift names in May 2026; the largest five together held 42.5%.

Shares add to 100%. From the registry's report for May 2026.

2026 strings our model compared with it

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

last night, in detail

Oct 24, 2026
What moved · on Oct 24, 2026
entered the zone
+9
left it
−2
changed nameservers
4
Net
+7
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 5,188 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers911.8%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers320.6%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers4,16480.3%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name90117.4%

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: 0.4%. 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.

Aug 2026: 5,065 — third-party estimate; the registry has not published that month yet.

how many names, month by month

to
Aug 2026 to Aug 2026

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Dashed months are third-party estimates. Sunrise Jan 2014 to Mar 2014; general registration Apr 2014.

everything else