New gTLD · delegated 2021-10 · DotMusic Limited

.music TLD stats

.music held 32,735 names in August 2025, as DotMusic Limited reported to ICANN; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 13,592. 49 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, Tucows Domains Inc., held 80.7%.

32,735
names, August 2025, reported to ICANN
13,592
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026
49
registrars holding names

Year by year since launch, as the registry reported it

In its first year, to September 2025, 29 registrars held 10 or more .music names and the largest held 80%.

  1. 1 · to Sep 202533,0722980%

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

August 2025

Tucows Domains Inc. held 80.7% of .music names in August 2025; the largest five together held 92.7%.

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

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .music among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 5 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 32,735 names for Aug 2025; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 19,143 fewer. The two are counted differently and 14 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
+16
left it
−24
changed nameservers
17
Net
−8
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 13,592 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers220.2%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers3002.2%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers12,48091.8%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name7905.8%

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: 0.3%. 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
Aug 2025 to Aug 2025

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Sunrise Sep 2023 to Nov 2023; general registration Oct 2024.

everything else