Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2014-11 · Binky Moon, LLC

.legal TLD stats

.legal held 24,270 names in December 2024, as Binky Moon, LLC reported to ICANN; its zone file on 24 Oct 2026 carried 23,105. 184 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, GoDaddy.com, LLC, held 20.3%.

24,270
names, December 2024, reported to ICANN
23,105
in the zone file, 24 Oct 2026
184
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, March 2015

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 February 2016, 54 registrars held 10 or more .legal names and the largest held 38%; by its eleventh, to February 2026, 87 did and the largest held 22%.

  1. 1 · to Feb 20167,9755438%
  2. 2 · to Feb 20179,8715737%
  3. 3 · to Feb 201812,1387036%
  4. 4 · to Feb 201913,1777135%
  5. 5 · to Feb 202013,9217334%
  6. 6 · to Feb 202114,9587732%
  7. 7 · to Feb 202216,9557630%
  8. 8 · to Feb 202318,6467927%
  9. 9 · to Feb 202419,6168425%
  10. 10 · to Feb 202524,4688520%
  11. 11 · to Feb 202622,8708722%

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

GoDaddy.com, LLC held 20.3% of .legal names in December 2024; the largest five together held 52.3%.

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 .legal 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 24,270 names for Dec 2024; the zone on Oct 24, 2026 held 1,165 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
+30
left it
−14
changed nameservers
55
Net
+16
Sep 15, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 23,105 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers4291.9%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers1190.5%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers20,01986.6%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name2,53811.0%

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: 0.3%. 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 Dec 2014 to Feb 2015; general registration Mar 2015.

everything else