Stats
Legacy gTLD · delegated 2001-11 · Museum Domain Management Association (MuseDoma)

.museum TLD stats

.museum held about 1,125 names in September 2026, by a third-party estimate; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 1,111. .museum fell by about half in its 20th year, from 2,102 to 909.

1,125
names, September 2026, third-party estimate
1,111
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026

Names since general availability, November 2007

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 17th year, to October 2018, 6 registrars held 10 or more .museum names and the largest held 40%; by its 24th, to October 2025, 23 did and the largest held 14%.

  1. 7 · to Oct 2008fewer than nine monthly reports
  2. 8 · to Oct 2009fewer than nine monthly reports
  3. 9 · to Oct 2010fewer than nine monthly reports
  4. 10 · to Oct 2011fewer than nine monthly reports
  5. 11 · to Oct 2012fewer than nine monthly reports
  6. 12 · to Oct 2013fewer than nine monthly reports
  7. 13 · to Oct 2014fewer than nine monthly reports
  8. 14 · to Oct 2015fewer than nine monthly reports
  9. 15 · to Oct 2016fewer than nine monthly reports
  10. 16 · to Oct 2017fewer than nine monthly reports
  11. 17 · to Oct 2018890640%
  12. 18 · to Oct 20191,5111451%
  13. 19 · to Oct 20202,1022068%
  14. 20 · to Oct 20219091914%
  15. 21 · to Oct 20221,0071911%
  16. 22 · to Oct 20231,0221913%
  17. 23 · to Oct 20241,0742012%
  18. 24 · to Oct 20251,1282314%

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

NETIM SARL held 13.0% of .museum names in May 2026; the largest five together held 47.1%.

Shares add to 100%. From the registry's report for May 2026.

last night, in detail

Oct 23, 2026
What moved · on Oct 23, 2026
entered the zone
0
left it
0
changed nameservers
0
Net
0
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 1,111 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers20.2%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers30.3%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers73165.8%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name37533.8%

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: 0.2%. 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: 1,125 — third-party estimate; the registry has not published that month yet.

how many names, month by month

to
Sep 2026 to Sep 2026

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Dashed months are third-party estimates.

everything else