Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2015-03 · Binky Moon, LLC

.gold TLD stats

.gold held 16,817 names in March 2025, as Binky Moon, LLC reported to ICANN; its zone file on 24 Oct 2026 carried 15,919. 179 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, GoDaddy.com, LLC, held 15.9%.

16,817
names, March 2025, reported to ICANN
15,919
in the zone file, 24 Oct 2026
179
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, June 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 May 2016, 38 registrars held 10 or more .gold names and the largest held 66%; by its eleventh, to May 2026, 68 did and the largest held 21%.

  1. 1 · to May 20169,4213866%
  2. 2 · to May 20177,3214123%
  3. 3 · to May 20189,8914630%
  4. 4 · to May 20199,3484425%
  5. 5 · to May 202012,0275118%
  6. 6 · to May 202113,9275219%
  7. 7 · to May 202213,9735918%
  8. 8 · to May 202313,8326420%
  9. 9 · to May 202413,6507720%
  10. 10 · to May 202516,7366916%
  11. 11 · to May 202616,0176821%

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

March 2025

GoDaddy.com, LLC held 15.9% of .gold names in March 2025; the largest five together held 57.1%.

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

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .gold among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 5 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 16,817 names for Mar 2025; the zone on Oct 24, 2026 held 898 fewer. The two are counted differently and 19 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
+19
left it
−126
changed nameservers
20
Net
−107
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 15,919 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers2,02412.7%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers2701.7%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers12,32277.4%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name1,3038.2%

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: 0.8%. 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
Mar 2025 to Mar 2025

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

everything else