Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2015-05 · Binky Moon, LLC

.mba TLD stats

.mba held 5,169 names in April 2025, as Binky Moon, LLC reported to ICANN; its zone file on 24 Oct 2026 carried 5,012. 121 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, NameCheap, Inc., held 17.7%. .mba fell by about half in its ninth year, from 11,458 to 4,626.

5,169
names, April 2025, reported to ICANN
5,012
in the zone file, 24 Oct 2026
121
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 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 July 2016, 33 registrars held 10 or more .mba names and the largest held 20%; by its tenth, to July 2025, 51 did and the largest held 17%.

  1. 1 · to Jul 20162,6443320%
  2. 2 · to Jul 20172,8343618%
  3. 3 · to Jul 20183,2523616%
  4. 4 · to Jul 20193,0523818%
  5. 5 · to Jul 20202,6163822%
  6. 6 · to Jul 20213,3944219%
  7. 7 · to Jul 20225,4474116%
  8. 8 · to Jul 202311,4584526%
  9. 9 · to Jul 20244,6264719%
  10. 10 · to Jul 20255,1945117%

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

NameCheap, Inc. held 17.7% of .mba names in April 2025; the largest five together held 55.0%.

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 .mba among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 8 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 5,169 names for Apr 2025; the zone on Oct 24, 2026 held 157 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
+15
left it
−5
changed nameservers
7
Net
+10
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 5,012 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers1863.7%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers691.4%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers4,37487.3%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name3837.6%

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: 0.4%. 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 Jun 2015 to Aug 2015; general registration Aug 2015.

everything else