Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2015-07 · Dog Beach, LLC

.live TLD stats

.live held 653,153 names in October 2025, as Dog Beach, LLC reported to ICANN; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 625,228. 262 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, GoDaddy.com, LLC, held 24.9%.

653,153
names, October 2025, reported to ICANN
625,228
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026
262
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, October 2015

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 September 2016, 65 registrars held 10 or more .live names and the largest held 41%; by its tenth, to September 2025, 195 did and the largest held 25%.

  1. 1 · to Sep 201664,9066541%
  2. 2 · to Sep 2017116,1937744%
  3. 3 · to Sep 2018224,0798548%
  4. 4 · to Sep 2019627,3299542%
  5. 5 · to Sep 2020500,78710821%
  6. 6 · to Sep 2021561,43011227%
  7. 7 · to Sep 2022697,72617426%
  8. 8 · to Sep 2023683,42018331%
  9. 9 · to Sep 2024588,11918335%
  10. 10 · to Sep 2025648,42719525%

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

October 2025

GoDaddy.com, LLC held 24.9% of .live names in October 2025; the largest five together held 68.4%.

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

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .live among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 9 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 653,153 names for Oct 2025; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 27,925 fewer. The two are counted differently and 12 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
+1,949
left it
−908
changed nameservers
1,663
Net
+1,041
Sep 15, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 625,228 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers7,7521.2%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers20,2703.2%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers557,27889.1%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name39,9286.4%

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: 0.6%. 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
Oct 2025 to Oct 2025

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Sunrise Aug 2015 to Oct 2015; general registration Oct 2015.

everything else