Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2014-05 · Binky Moon, LLC

.life TLD stats

.life held 430,132 names in April 2025, as Binky Moon, LLC reported to ICANN; its zone file on 24 Oct 2026 carried 434,570. 249 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, GoDaddy.com, LLC, held 45.4%.

430,132
names, April 2025, reported to ICANN
434,570
in the zone file, 24 Oct 2026
249
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, September 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 August 2015, 65 registrars held 10 or more .life names and the largest held 51%; by its eleventh, to August 2025, 197 did and the largest held 42%.

  1. 1 · to Aug 201525,9086551%
  2. 2 · to Aug 201642,9117351%
  3. 3 · to Aug 2017138,7698440%
  4. 4 · to Aug 2018181,0529038%
  5. 5 · to Aug 2019211,6699633%
  6. 6 · to Aug 2020222,21810838%
  7. 7 · to Aug 2021233,53311138%
  8. 8 · to Aug 2022278,83917246%
  9. 9 · to Aug 2023379,86118449%
  10. 10 · to Aug 2024442,56019149%
  11. 11 · to Aug 2025399,48819742%

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

April 2025

GoDaddy.com, LLC held 45.4% of .life names in April 2025; the largest five together held 68.2%.

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

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .life among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 15 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 430,132 names for Apr 2025; the zone on Oct 24, 2026 held 4,438 more. The two are counted differently and 18 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
+469
left it
−1,866
changed nameservers
727
Net
−1,397
Sep 15, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 434,570 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers13,9223.2%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers9,5272.2%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers393,84590.6%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name17,2764.0%

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: 0.5%. 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
Apr 2025 to Apr 2025

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

everything else