Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2015-05 · XYZ Registry

.lol TLD stats

.lol held 271,938 names in October 2025, as XYZ Registry reported to ICANN; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 1,128,336. 188 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, NameCheap, Inc., held 25.1%. .lol fell by about half in its third year, from 58,804 to 18,662 and has since grown back to 271,938.

271,938
names, October 2025, reported to ICANN
1.13M
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026
188
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, August 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 July 2016, 46 registrars held 10 or more .lol names and the largest held 62%; by its tenth, to July 2025, 114 did and the largest held 43%.

  1. 1 · to Jul 201697,7584662%
  2. 2 · to Jul 201758,8044570%
  3. 3 · to Jul 201818,6624542%
  4. 4 · to Jul 20199,5634720%
  5. 5 · to Jul 20209,9034719%
  6. 6 · to Jul 202114,7435053%
  7. 7 · to Jul 202230,4205544%
  8. 8 · to Jul 2023111,2648839%
  9. 9 · to Jul 2024649,8427567%
  10. 10 · to Jul 2025435,60311443%

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

NameCheap, Inc. held 25.1% of .lol names in October 2025; the largest five together held 78.5%.

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 .lol among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 38 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 271,938 names for Oct 2025; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 856,398 more. 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
+11,206
left it
−685
changed nameservers
7,907
Net
+10,521
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 1,128,336 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers2,5150.2%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers8,7100.8%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers1,108,90898.3%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name8,2030.7%

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: 0.1%. 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 Jun 2015 to Jul 2015; general registration Aug 2015.

everything else