Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2014-05 · Radix

.host TLD stats

.host held 24,339 names in May 2026, as Radix reported to ICANN; its zone file on 24 Oct 2026 carried 25,980. 179 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, NameCheap, Inc., held 28.0%. .host fell by about half in its seventh year, from 95,674 to 41,803.

24,339
names, May 2026, reported to ICANN
25,980
in the zone file, 24 Oct 2026
179
registrars holding names

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 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 July 2015, 41 registrars held 10 or more .host names and the largest held 16%; by its eleventh, to July 2025, 80 did and the largest held 24%.

  1. 1 · to Jul 20153,8874116%
  2. 2 · to Jul 201636,3415229%
  3. 3 · to Jul 201764,5736034%
  4. 4 · to Jul 201852,3645759%
  5. 5 · to Jul 2019154,3736467%
  6. 6 · to Jul 202095,6747051%
  7. 7 · to Jul 202141,8036729%
  8. 8 · to Jul 202239,7957023%
  9. 9 · to Jul 202331,7308031%
  10. 10 · to Jul 202426,1278232%
  11. 11 · to Jul 202530,6178024%

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 28.0% of .host names in May 2026; the largest five together held 60.7%.

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 .host among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 3 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 24,339 names for May 2026; the zone on Oct 24, 2026 held 1,641 more. The two are counted differently and 5 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
+38
left it
−25
changed nameservers
50
Net
+13
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 25,980 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers4021.5%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers2511.0%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers21,17981.5%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name4,14816.0%

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: 0.2%. 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
May 2026 to May 2026

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

everything else