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

.guide TLD stats

.guide held about 20,263 names in October 2026, by a third-party estimate; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 20,434.

20,263
names, October 2026, third-party estimate
20,434
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026

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 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 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

May 2026

GoDaddy.com, LLC held 19.3% of .guide names in May 2026; the largest five together held 50.4%.

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 .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.

last night, in detail

Oct 23, 2026
What moved · on Oct 23, 2026
entered the zone
+33
left it
−12
changed nameservers
14
Net
+21
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 20,434 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers7513.7%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers1250.6%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers17,52485.8%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name2,03410.0%

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: 0.4%. 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: 20,263 — third-party estimate; the registry has not published that month yet.

how many names, month by month

to
Oct 2026 to Oct 2026

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

everything else