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

.live TLD stats

.live held 642,754 names in April 2026, as Dog Beach, LLC reported to ICANN; its zone file on 24 Oct 2026 carried 625,964. 278 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, NameCheap, Inc., held 24.0%.

642,754
names, April 2026, reported to ICANN
625,964
in the zone file, 24 Oct 2026
278
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 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 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

April 2026

NameCheap, Inc. held 24.0% of .live names in April 2026; the largest five together held 66.8%.

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

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 642,754 names for Apr 2026; the zone on Oct 24, 2026 held 16,790 fewer. The two are counted differently and 6 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
+1,647
left it
−911
changed nameservers
1,055
Net
+736
Sep 15, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 625,964 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers7,6701.2%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers20,3033.2%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers558,07089.2%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name39,9216.4%

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 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
Apr 2026 to Apr 2026

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