Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2014-04 · Binky Moon, LLC

.media TLD stats

.media held 86,735 names in March 2025, as Binky Moon, LLC reported to ICANN; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 102,441. 237 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, GoDaddy.com, LLC, held 28.7%.

86,735
names, March 2025, reported to ICANN
102,441
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026
237
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, July 2014

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 June 2015, 67 registrars held 10 or more .media names and the largest held 33%; by its eleventh, to June 2025, 172 did and the largest held 29%.

  1. 1 · to Jun 201518,5426733%
  2. 2 · to Jun 201627,3747732%
  3. 3 · to Jun 201735,3918734%
  4. 4 · to Jun 201843,5149635%
  5. 5 · to Jun 201947,9509635%
  6. 6 · to Jun 202054,01710133%
  7. 7 · to Jun 202163,12610732%
  8. 8 · to Jun 202271,54615231%
  9. 9 · to Jun 202377,47015830%
  10. 10 · to Jun 202486,88217629%
  11. 11 · to Jun 202581,49617229%

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

March 2025

GoDaddy.com, LLC held 28.7% of .media names in March 2025; the largest five together held 57.8%.

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

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .media 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 86,735 names for Mar 2025; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 15,706 more. The two are counted differently and 19 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
+215
left it
−162
changed nameservers
102
Net
+53
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 102,441 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers3,5723.5%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers6520.6%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers90,85588.7%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name7,3627.2%

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: 0.5%. 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
Mar 2025 to Mar 2025

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Sunrise May 2014 to Jul 2014; general registration Jul 2014.

everything else