New gTLD · delegated 2015-07 · Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality

.ist TLD stats

.ist held 7,842 names in March 2026, as Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality reported to ICANN; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 7,804. 55 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, GoDaddy.com, LLC, held 29.3%.

7,842
names, March 2026, reported to ICANN: 7,804
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026: 55
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, May 2016

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 April 2017, 26 registrars held 10 or more .ist names and the largest held 42%; by its tenth, to April 2026, 35 did and the largest held 29%.

YearNamesRegistrars with 10+Largest registrar
1 · to Apr 201714,4392642%
2 · to Apr 201811,4513029%
3 · to Apr 201910,2462823%
4 · to Apr 20209,4893222%
5 · to Apr 20218,5953225%
6 · to Apr 20228,4123126%
7 · to Apr 20238,2443226%
8 · to Apr 20248,0113427%
9 · to Apr 20257,7853428%
10 · to Apr 20267,8323529%

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

March 2026

GoDaddy.com, LLC held 29.3% of .ist names in March 2026; the largest five together held 64.1%.

GoDaddy.com, LLC29.3%
Nics Telekomünikasyon A.S.11.7%
Tucows Domains Inc.9.7%
Turkticaret.net Yazılım Hizmetleri Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş.7.1%
IHS Telekom, Inc.6.3%
everyone else35.9%

Shares add to 100%. From the registry's report for March 2026.

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .ist among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 1 applied-for string. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Moderate (1):.ify

Cross-checkThe registry reported 7,842 names for Mar 2026; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 38 fewer. The two are counted differently and 7 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 23, 2026

What moved · on Oct 23, 2026

entered the zone: +3
left it: −5
changed nameservers: 5
Net: −2

Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero

How the zone is used · 7,804 names

Listed for salemarketplace nameservers1471.9%
Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers400.5%
In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers6,07277.8%
Not classifiednameservers we can’t name1,54519.8%

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 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.

how many names, month by month

Mar 2026 to Mar 2026

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Sunrise Jan 2016 to Feb 2016; general registration May 2016.