New gTLD · delegated 2014-05 · Binky Moon, LLC

.guide TLD stats

.guide held 18,681 names in December 2024, as Binky Moon, LLC reported to ICANN; its zone file on 24 Oct 2026 carried 20,431. 169 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, GoDaddy.com, LLC, held 18.6%.

18,681
names, December 2024, reported to ICANN
20,431
in the zone file, 24 Oct 2026
169
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, September 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 August 2015, 56 registrars held 10 or more .guide names and the largest held 31%; by its eleventh, to August 2025, 73 did and the largest held 22%.

  1. 1 · to Aug 201512,4995631%
  2. 2 · to Aug 201614,0565632%
  3. 3 · to Aug 201715,3626431%
  4. 4 · to Aug 201817,5056932%
  5. 5 · to Aug 201917,2117029%
  6. 6 · to Aug 202016,0137228%
  7. 7 · to Aug 202116,9477624%
  8. 8 · to Aug 202218,2167523%
  9. 9 · to Aug 202317,8527922%
  10. 10 · to Aug 202418,7297719%
  11. 11 · to Aug 202519,1137322%

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

December 2024

GoDaddy.com, LLC held 18.6% of .guide names in December 2024; the largest five together held 49.9%.

Shares add to 100%. From the registry's report for December 2024.

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .guide among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 7 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 18,681 names for Dec 2024; the zone on Oct 24, 2026 held 1,750 more. The two are counted differently and 22 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
+12
left it
−15
changed nameservers
23
Net
−3
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 20,431 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers7463.7%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers1230.6%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers17,53285.8%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name2,0309.9%

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.

how many names, month by month

to
Dec 2024 to Dec 2024

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Sunrise Jul 2014 to Sep 2014; general registration Sep 2014.

everything else