Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2013-11 · Binky Moon, LLC

.lighting TLD stats

.lighting held 5,926 names in June 2026, as Binky Moon, LLC reported to ICANN; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 5,422.

5,926
names, June 2026, reported to ICANN
5,422
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026

Names since general availability, February 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 January 2015, 40 registrars held 10 or more .lighting names and the largest held 39%; by its twelfth, to January 2026, 57 did and the largest held 32%.

  1. 1 · to Jan 20156,2844039%
  2. 2 · to Jan 20166,0603941%
  3. 3 · to Jan 20176,2604140%
  4. 4 · to Jan 20186,3904536%
  5. 5 · to Jan 20196,2384536%
  6. 6 · to Jan 20206,1124635%
  7. 7 · to Jan 20215,9544935%
  8. 8 · to Jan 20226,1885333%
  9. 9 · to Jan 20236,1715533%
  10. 10 · to Jan 20246,0325533%
  11. 11 · to Jan 20256,2805830%
  12. 12 · to Jan 20265,5995732%

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 30.3% of .lighting names in May 2026; the largest five together held 50.4%.

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 .lighting among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 6 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 5,926 names for Jun 2026; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 504 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
+5
left it
−1
changed nameservers
2
Net
+4
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 5,422 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers1072.0%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers280.5%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers4,48382.7%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name80414.8%

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
Jun 2026 to Jun 2026

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Sunrise Dec 2013 to Feb 2014; general registration Feb 2014.

everything else