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

.kim TLD stats

.kim held 9,436 names in May 2025, as Identity Digital Domains Limited reported to ICANN; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 7,906. 137 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, NameCheap, Inc., held 16.6%. .kim fell by about half in its fourth year, from 98,344 to 23,163.

9,436
names, May 2025, reported to ICANN
7,906
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026
137
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 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 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

May 2025

NameCheap, Inc. held 16.6% of .kim names in May 2025; the largest five together held 58.4%.

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

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 9,436 names for May 2025; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 1,530 fewer. The two are counted differently and 17 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
+2
left it
−7
changed nameservers
19
Net
−5
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 7,906 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers1702.2%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers1071.4%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers7,05289.2%
  • 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 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

to
May 2025 to May 2025

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