Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2015-05 · ShortDot

.icu TLD stats

.icu held 509,316 names in November 2024, as ShortDot reported to ICANN; its zone file on 24 Oct 2026 carried 555,118. 159 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, GNAME.COM PTE. LTD., held 15.0%. .icu fell by about half in its third year, from 6,640,727 to 948,324.

509,316
names, November 2024, reported to ICANN
555,118
in the zone file, 24 Oct 2026
159
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, May 2018

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 April 2019, 39 registrars held 10 or more .icu names and the largest held 32%; by its eighth, to April 2026, 107 did and the largest held 18%.

  1. 1 · to Apr 2019837,2383932%
  2. 2 · to Apr 20206.64M5230%
  3. 3 · to Apr 2021948,3246030%
  4. 4 · to Apr 20221.13M6844%
  5. 5 · to Apr 2023592,7969837%
  6. 6 · to Apr 2024477,5398717%
  7. 7 · to Apr 2025502,6089218%
  8. 8 · to Apr 2026598,55910718%

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

November 2024

GNAME.COM PTE. LTD. held 15.0% of .icu names in November 2024; the largest five together held 54.9%.

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

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .icu among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 12 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 509,316 names for Nov 2024; the zone on Oct 24, 2026 held 45,802 more. The two are counted differently and 23 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
+715
left it
−1,703
changed nameservers
1,440
Net
−988
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 555,118 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers6110.1%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers12,4002.2%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers391,32870.5%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name150,77927.2%

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: 0.0%. 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
Nov 2024 to Nov 2024

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Sunrise Apr 2018 to May 2018; general registration May 2018.

everything else