Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2014-01 · Nova Registry

.link TLD stats

.link held 310,085 names in June 2026, as Nova Registry reported to ICANN; a third-party estimate put it at about 272,900 in October 2026; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 254,689. .link fell by about half in its fourth year, from 373,180 to 199,169.

310,085
names, June 2026, reported to ICANN
254,689
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026

Names since general availability, April 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 March 2015, 60 registrars held 10 or more .link names and the largest held 40%; by its twelfth, to March 2026, 118 did and the largest held 23%.

  1. 1 · to Mar 201577,9116040%
  2. 2 · to Mar 2016384,0877546%
  3. 3 · to Mar 2017373,1808552%
  4. 4 · to Mar 2018199,1698842%
  5. 5 · to Mar 2019121,4909325%
  6. 6 · to Mar 2020126,8759252%
  7. 7 · to Mar 2021167,66910236%
  8. 8 · to Mar 2022180,63710922%
  9. 9 · to Mar 2023231,52011218%
  10. 10 · to Mar 2024241,55211116%
  11. 11 · to Mar 2025252,95411320%
  12. 12 · to Mar 2026304,02911823%

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

Unstoppable Domains Inc held 25.3% of .link names in May 2026; the largest five together held 60.4%.

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 .link among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 18 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 310,085 names for Jun 2026; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 55,396 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
+319
left it
−4,557
changed nameservers
389
Net
−4,238
Sep 15, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 254,689 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers8,5263.3%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers16,3416.4%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers214,30384.1%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name15,5196.1%

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: 1.0%. 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.

Oct 2026: 272,900 — third-party estimate; the registry has not published that month yet.

how many names, month by month

Nov 2016 to Oct 2026

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Dashed months are third-party estimates. Sunrise Jan 2014 to Mar 2014; general registration Apr 2014.

everything else