Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2014-04 · Binky Moon, LLC

.gratis TLD stats

.gratis held 3,424 names in June 2026, as Binky Moon, LLC reported to ICANN; a third-party estimate put it at about 3,046 in October 2026; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 3,041.

3,424
names, June 2026, reported to ICANN
3,041
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026

Names since general availability, August 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 July 2015, 39 registrars held 10 or more .gratis names and the largest held 13%; by its eleventh, to July 2025, 48 did and the largest held 16%.

  1. 1 · to Jul 20154,3913913%
  2. 2 · to Jul 20164,0094214%
  3. 3 · to Jul 20174,3804413%
  4. 4 · to Jul 20184,5224613%
  5. 5 · to Jul 20194,4694810%
  6. 6 · to Jul 20204,2474811%
  7. 7 · to Jul 20214,0064811%
  8. 8 · to Jul 20224,2324911%
  9. 9 · to Jul 20234,0445012%
  10. 10 · to Jul 20243,7015215%
  11. 11 · to Jul 20253,4824816%

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 14.8% of .gratis names in May 2026; the largest five together held 40.0%.

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 .gratis 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 3,424 names for Jun 2026; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 383 fewer. The two are counted differently and 4 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
0
left it
−1
changed nameservers
2
Net
−1
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 3,041 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers1404.6%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers250.8%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers2,43380.0%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name44314.6%

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: 0.3%. 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.

Oct 2026: 3,046 — third-party estimate; the registry has not published that month yet.

how many names, month by month

Nov 2016 to Oct 2026

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Dashed months are third-party estimates. Sunrise Jun 2014 to Aug 2014; general registration Aug 2014.

everything else