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 October 2016, 1 registrars held 10 or more .man names and the largest held 100%; by its tenth, to October 2025, 1 did and the largest held 99%.
YearNamesRegistrars with 10+Largest registrar
1 · to Oct 2016431100%
2 · to Oct 2017821100%
3 · to Oct 2018126199%
4 · to Oct 2019152199%
5 · to Oct 2020164199%
6 · to Oct 2021175199%
7 · to Oct 2022177199%
8 · to Oct 2023182199%
9 · to Oct 2024192199%
10 · to Oct 2025205199%
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 2026
Knipp Medien und Kommunikation GmbH held 99.0% of .man names in May 2026; the largest five together held 99.0%.
Shares add to 100%. From the registry's report for May 2026.
2026 strings our model compared with it
When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .man among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 1 applied-for string. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.
The registry republished the previous night’s file, byte for byte. Nothing entered, left, or changed nameservers.
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 213 names
Listed for salemarketplace nameservers00.0%
Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers00.0%
In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers115.2%
Not classifiednameservers we can’t name20294.8%
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: 0.0%. 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.
Sep 2026: 203 — third-party estimate; the registry has not published that month yet.
how many names, month by month
Sep 2026 to Sep 2026
Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Dashed months are third-party estimates.