Legacy gTLD · delegated 2002-01 · VeriSign, Inc.

.name TLD stats

.name held about 92,609 names in August 2026, by a third-party estimate; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 72,041.

92,609
names, August 2026, third-party estimate: 72,041
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026

Run by VeriSign, Inc.

Names since general availability, January 2008

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 ninth year, to December 2010, 107 registrars held 10 or more .name names and the largest held 23%; by its 24th, to December 2025, 135 did and the largest held 17%.

YearNamesRegistrars with 10+Largest registrar
7 · to Dec 2008fewer than nine monthly reports
8 · to Dec 2009fewer than nine monthly reports
9 · to Dec 2010232,87010723%
10 · to Dec 2011234,56510918%
11 · to Dec 2012218,67411816%
12 · to Dec 2013207,67512214%
13 · to Dec 2014190,85112313%
14 · to Dec 2015171,98012413%
15 · to Dec 2016161,19912917%
16 · to Dec 2017148,76213217%
17 · to Dec 2018135,19113618%
18 · to Dec 2019126,18913518%
19 · to Dec 2020119,86713118%
20 · to Dec 2021114,94113517%
21 · to Dec 2022112,50513717%
22 · to Dec 2023105,98413617%
23 · to Dec 2024100,38513817%
24 · to Dec 202596,41713517%

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

Tucows Domains Inc. held 16.8% of .name names in May 2026; the largest five together held 48.4%.

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: +27
left it: −25
changed nameservers: 47
Net: +2

Sep 20, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero

How the zone is used · 72,041 names

Listed for salemarketplace nameservers6390.9%
Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers6510.9%
In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers52,00072.2%
Not classifiednameservers we can’t name18,75126.0%

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: 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.

Aug 2026: 92,609 — third-party estimate; the registry has not published that month yet.

how many names, month by month

Aug 2026 to Aug 2026

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