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

.life TLD stats

.life held 474,179 names in June 2026, as Binky Moon, LLC reported to ICANN; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 435,967.

474,179
names, June 2026, reported to ICANN
435,967
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026

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 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 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

May 2026

GoDaddy.com, LLC held 29.3% of .life names in May 2026; the largest five together held 60.7%.

Shares add to 100%. From the registry's report for May 2026.

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 474,179 names for Jun 2026; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 38,212 fewer. The two are counted differently and 4 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
+1,889
left it
−447
changed nameservers
696
Net
+1,442
Sep 15, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 435,967 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers15,2943.5%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers9,4832.2%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers393,93190.4%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name17,2594.0%

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 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
Jun 2026 to Jun 2026

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