.med held 92 names in May 2025, as Medistry LLC reported to ICANN; its zone file on 24 Oct 2026 carried 2,944. 2 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, Name Share, Inc, held 81.5%. .med fell by about half in its ninth year, from 41,816 to 92.
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, 0 registrars held 10 or more .med names and the largest held 67%; by its tenth, to May 2026, 19 did and the largest held 21%.
YearNamesRegistrars with 10+Largest registrar
1 · to May 20173067%
2 · to May 20184050%
3 · to May 20194050%
4 · to May 20204050%
5 · to May 202112067%
6 · to May 202239256%
7 · to May 20233,090299%
8 · to May 202441,8162100%
9 · to May 202592282%
10 · to May 20262,8291921%
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 2025
Name Share, Inc held 81.5% of .med names in May 2025; the largest five together held 95.6%.
Shares add to 100%. From the registry's report for May 2025.
2026 strings our model compared with it
When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .med among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 11 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.
Cross-checkThe registry reported 92 names for May 2025; the zone on Oct 24, 2026 held 2,852 more. The two are counted differently and 17 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
+2
left it
−5
changed nameservers
9
Net
−3
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 2,944 names
Listed for salemarketplace nameservers270.9%
Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers230.8%
In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers2,10571.5%
Not classifiednameservers we can’t name78926.8%
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 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
May 2025 to May 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.