New gTLD · delegated 2022-04 · DotKids Foundation Limited

.kids TLD stats

.kids held 4,858 names in July 2024, as DotKids Foundation Limited reported to ICANN; its zone file on 24 Oct 2026 carried 7,901. 50 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, GoDaddy.com, LLC, held 29.8%.

4,858
names, July 2024, reported to ICANN
7,901
in the zone file, 24 Oct 2026
50
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, November 2022

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 2023, 36 registrars held 10 or more .kids names and the largest held 28%; by its third, to October 2025, 41 did and the largest held 31%.

  1. 1 · to Oct 20234,3233628%
  2. 2 · to Oct 20245,1573929%
  3. 3 · to Oct 20256,0834131%

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

July 2024

GoDaddy.com, LLC held 29.8% of .kids names in July 2024; the largest five together held 64.7%.

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

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .kids 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.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 4,858 names for Jul 2024; the zone on Oct 24, 2026 held 3,043 more. The two are counted differently and 27 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
+40
left it
−5
changed nameservers
6
Net
+35
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 7,901 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers1401.8%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers260.3%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers6,79186.0%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name94411.9%

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: 0.6%. 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
Jul 2024 to Jul 2024

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Sunrise Aug 2022 to Sep 2022; general registration Nov 2022.

everything else