Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2014-08 · XYZ Registry

.hosting TLD stats

.hosting held 2,550 names in February 2025, as XYZ Registry reported to ICANN; its zone file on 24 Oct 2026 carried 2,258. 96 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, 1API GmbH, held 15.8%. .hosting fell by about half in its second year, from 15,129 to 6,155.

2,550
names, February 2025, reported to ICANN
2,258
in the zone file, 24 Oct 2026
96
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, 51 registrars held 10 or more .hosting names and the largest held 71%; by its eleventh, to October 2025, 36 did and the largest held 14%.

  1. 1 · to Oct 201515,1295171%
  2. 2 · to Oct 20166,1555416%
  3. 3 · to Oct 20176,0594915%
  4. 4 · to Oct 20184,8424515%
  5. 5 · to Oct 20193,8984615%
  6. 6 · to Oct 20203,3184215%
  7. 7 · to Oct 20213,2063915%
  8. 8 · to Oct 20223,0334015%
  9. 9 · to Oct 20232,8473817%
  10. 10 · to Oct 20242,6333817%
  11. 11 · to Oct 20252,6843614%

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

February 2025

1API GmbH held 15.8% of .hosting names in February 2025; the largest five together held 48.9%.

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

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .hosting among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 8 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 2,550 names for Feb 2025; the zone on Oct 24, 2026 held 292 fewer. The two are counted differently and 20 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
0
left it
−1
changed nameservers
1
Net
−1
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 2,258 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers522.3%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers70.3%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers1,25355.5%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name94641.9%

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: 0.1%. 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
Feb 2025 to Feb 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.

everything else