Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2014-01 · Nova Registry

.link TLD stats

.link held 252,355 names in May 2025, as Nova Registry reported to ICANN; its zone file on 24 Oct 2026 carried 247,332. 141 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, NameSilo, LLC, held 18.7%. .link fell by about half in its fourth year, from 373,180 to 199,169.

252,355
names, May 2025, reported to ICANN
247,332
in the zone file, 24 Oct 2026
141
registrars holding names

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 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 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 2025

NameSilo, LLC held 18.7% of .link names in May 2025; the largest five together held 58.8%.

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

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 252,355 names for May 2025; the zone on Oct 24, 2026 held 5,023 fewer. The two are counted differently and 17 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
+356
left it
−7,713
changed nameservers
274
Net
−7,357
Sep 15, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 247,332 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers7,9473.2%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers15,5486.3%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers208,33584.2%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name15,5026.3%

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 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
May 2025 to May 2025

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

everything else