Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2014-01 · DOT KIWI LIMITED

.kiwi TLD stats

.kiwi held 11,399 names in October 2024, as DOT KIWI LIMITED reported to ICANN; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 13,254. 42 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, Tucows Domains Inc., held 25.6%. .kiwi fell by about half in its fourth year, from 202,052 to 20,786.

11,399
names, October 2024, reported to ICANN
13,254
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026
42
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, March 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 February 2015, 21 registrars held 10 or more .kiwi names and the largest held 21%; by its twelfth, to February 2026, 29 did and the largest held 23%.

  1. 1 · to Feb 20159,5622121%
  2. 2 · to Feb 201610,5722418%
  3. 3 · to Feb 2017202,0522752%
  4. 4 · to Feb 201820,7862436%
  5. 5 · to Feb 201916,9952831%
  6. 6 · to Feb 202014,1312634%
  7. 7 · to Feb 202113,9022633%
  8. 8 · to Feb 202213,4572832%
  9. 9 · to Feb 202312,5242930%
  10. 10 · to Feb 202411,7992827%
  11. 11 · to Feb 202511,1493025%
  12. 12 · to Feb 202611,8642923%

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

October 2024

Tucows Domains Inc. held 25.6% of .kiwi names in October 2024; the largest five together held 69.8%.

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

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .kiwi among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 4 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 11,399 names for Oct 2024; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 1,855 more. The two are counted differently and 24 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
+13
left it
−5
changed nameservers
5
Net
+8
Sep 26, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 13,254 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers330.2%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers420.3%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers7,05653.2%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name6,12346.2%

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: 0.2%. 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
Oct 2024 to Oct 2024

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

everything else