Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2015-08 · Binky Moon, LLC

.group TLD stats

.group held 188,051 names in August 2025, as Binky Moon, LLC reported to ICANN; its zone file on 24 Oct 2026 carried 125,368. 248 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn), held 45.0%. .group fell by 37% in its tenth year, from 198,960 to 125,297.

188,051
names, August 2025, reported to ICANN
125,368
in the zone file, 24 Oct 2026
248
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, 77 registrars held 10 or more .group names and the largest held 27%; by its tenth, to April 2026, 199 did and the largest held 19%.

  1. 1 · to Apr 201725,0717727%
  2. 2 · to Apr 201865,6119439%
  3. 3 · to Apr 201971,68710427%
  4. 4 · to Apr 202074,31610926%
  5. 5 · to Apr 202192,06311821%
  6. 6 · to Apr 2022102,10913322%
  7. 7 · to Apr 2023108,51217122%
  8. 8 · to Apr 2024113,36019421%
  9. 9 · to Apr 2025198,96019545%
  10. 10 · to Apr 2026125,29719919%

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

August 2025

Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn) held 45.0% of .group names in August 2025; the largest five together held 67.8%.

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

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .group among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 6 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 188,051 names for Aug 2025; the zone on Oct 24, 2026 held 62,683 fewer. The two are counted differently and 14 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
+105
left it
−302
changed nameservers
699
Net
−197
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 125,368 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers14,44011.5%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers6530.5%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers96,51877.0%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name13,75711.0%

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: 2.2%. 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
Aug 2025 to Aug 2025

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

everything else