Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2016-09 · XYZ Registry

.monster TLD stats

.monster held 53,585 names in May 2025, as XYZ Registry reported to ICANN; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 46,820. 129 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, NameCheap, Inc., held 46.5%. .monster fell by 34% in its sixth year, from 83,741 to 55,393.

53,585
names, May 2025, reported to ICANN
46,820
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026
129
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, April 2019

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 March 2020, 41 registrars held 10 or more .monster names and the largest held 52%; by its seventh, to March 2026, 68 did and the largest held 32%.

  1. 1 · to Mar 202078,6644152%
  2. 2 · to Mar 2021155,8505172%
  3. 3 · to Mar 2022114,0516058%
  4. 4 · to Mar 202386,5306452%
  5. 5 · to Mar 202483,7416233%
  6. 6 · to Mar 202555,3937245%
  7. 7 · to Mar 202637,3276832%

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

NameCheap, Inc. held 46.5% of .monster names in May 2025; the largest five together held 74.7%.

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 .monster 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 53,585 names for May 2025; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 6,765 fewer. 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 23, 2026
What moved · on Oct 23, 2026
entered the zone
+122
left it
−105
changed nameservers
98
Net
+17
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 46,820 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers1,1752.5%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers7381.6%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers43,02891.9%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name1,8794.0%

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: 1.3%. 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
May 2025 to May 2025

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Sunrise Feb 2019 to Mar 2019; general registration Apr 2019.

everything else