New gTLD · delegated 2014-08 · Innovation Service

.help TLD stats

.help held 42,057 names in January 2025, as Innovation Service reported to ICANN; its zone file on 24 Oct 2026 carried 185,764. 127 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, NameSilo, LLC, held 23.5%. .help fell by about half in its third year, from 43,253 to 19,575 and has since grown back to 42,057.

42,057
names, January 2025, reported to ICANN: 185,764
in the zone file, 24 Oct 2026: 127
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, November 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 October 2015, 55 registrars held 10 or more .help names and the largest held 66%; by its eleventh, to October 2025, 83 did and the largest held 41%.

YearNamesRegistrars with 10+Largest registrar
1 · to Oct 201533,3985566%
2 · to Oct 201643,2536532%
3 · to Oct 201719,5756123%
4 · to Oct 201815,5646114%
5 · to Oct 201914,9326712%
6 · to Oct 202015,7996716%
7 · to Oct 202119,2867322%
8 · to Oct 202219,7067423%
9 · to Oct 202327,6537934%
10 · to Oct 202433,3938023%
11 · to Oct 2025131,5328341%

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

January 2025

NameSilo, LLC held 23.5% of .help names in January 2025; the largest five together held 63.9%.

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

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .help among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 10 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Strong (6):.assist .faq .need .sos .status .desk
Moderate (4):.answer .ask .fix .aid

Cross-checkThe registry reported 42,057 names for Jan 2025; the zone on Oct 24, 2026 held 143,707 more. The two are counted differently and 21 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: +978
left it: −403
changed nameservers: 251
Net: +575

Sep 15, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero

How the zone is used · 185,764 names

Listed for salemarketplace nameservers5,1632.8%
Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers2,3681.3%
In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers171,98392.6%
Not classifiednameservers we can’t name6,2503.4%

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: 0.2%. 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

Jan 2025 to Jan 2025

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