Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2015-09 · Binky Moon, LLC

.ltd TLD stats

.ltd held 133,510 names in April 2025, as Binky Moon, LLC reported to ICANN; its zone file on 24 Oct 2026 carried 113,010. 230 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn), held 25.4%. .ltd fell by about half in its fourth year, from 491,374 to 115,384.

133,510
names, April 2025, reported to ICANN
113,010
in the zone file, 24 Oct 2026
230
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, June 2016

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 May 2017, 65 registrars held 10 or more .ltd names and the largest held 56%; by its tenth, to May 2026, 136 did and the largest held 26%.

  1. 1 · to May 201772,5556556%
  2. 2 · to May 2018472,0017589%
  3. 3 · to May 2019491,3748687%
  4. 4 · to May 2020115,3848851%
  5. 5 · to May 2021125,5279146%
  6. 6 · to May 2022129,63510142%
  7. 7 · to May 2023124,40512033%
  8. 8 · to May 2024127,25612228%
  9. 9 · to May 2025132,52112525%
  10. 10 · to May 2026119,21013626%

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 2025

Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn) held 25.4% of .ltd names in April 2025; the largest five together held 64.5%.

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

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .ltd among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 3 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 133,510 names for Apr 2025; the zone on Oct 24, 2026 held 20,500 fewer. The two are counted differently and 18 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
+114
left it
−173
changed nameservers
123
Net
−59
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 113,010 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers2,5052.2%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers9100.8%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers100,42988.9%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name9,1668.1%

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: 0.2%. 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 2025 to Apr 2025

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Sunrise Apr 2016 to Jun 2016; general registration Jun 2016.

everything else