Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2014-01 · Identity Digital Domains Limited

.kim TLD stats

.kim held 9,454 names in December 2024, as Identity Digital Domains Limited reported to ICANN; its zone file on 24 Oct 2026 carried 7,910. 135 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, NameCheap, Inc., held 15.7%. .kim fell by about half in its fourth year, from 98,344 to 23,163.

9,454
names, December 2024, reported to ICANN
7,910
in the zone file, 24 Oct 2026
135
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, April 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 March 2015, 28 registrars held 10 or more .kim names and the largest held 51%; by its twelfth, to March 2026, 60 did and the largest held 16%.

  1. 1 · to Mar 20158,3402851%
  2. 2 · to Mar 2016114,8914089%
  3. 3 · to Mar 201798,3444370%
  4. 4 · to Mar 201823,1634955%
  5. 5 · to Mar 201920,6434754%
  6. 6 · to Mar 202016,0505037%
  7. 7 · to Mar 202110,2344933%
  8. 8 · to Mar 20229,1765127%
  9. 9 · to Mar 20238,7325621%
  10. 10 · to Mar 20249,3156614%
  11. 11 · to Mar 202510,0376216%
  12. 12 · to Mar 20268,8226016%

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

December 2024

NameCheap, Inc. held 15.7% of .kim names in December 2024; the largest five together held 56.0%.

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

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .kim among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 14 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 9,454 names for Dec 2024; the zone on Oct 24, 2026 held 1,544 fewer. The two are counted differently and 22 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
+10
left it
−6
changed nameservers
12
Net
+4
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 7,910 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers1712.2%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers1081.4%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers7,05489.2%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name5777.3%

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
Dec 2024 to Dec 2024

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

everything else