Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2015-03 · Dog Beach, LLC

.news TLD stats

.news held 85,355 names in May 2025, as Dog Beach, LLC reported to ICANN; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 76,610. 232 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, NameCheap, Inc., held 27.5%.

85,355
names, May 2025, reported to ICANN
76,610
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026
232
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, July 2015

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 2016, 69 registrars held 10 or more .news names and the largest held 41%; by its tenth, to June 2025, 127 did and the largest held 28%.

  1. 1 · to Jun 201677,7846941%
  2. 2 · to Jun 201767,3477626%
  3. 3 · to Jun 201864,0698228%
  4. 4 · to Jun 201961,4258630%
  5. 5 · to Jun 202060,3169529%
  6. 6 · to Jun 202176,17310525%
  7. 7 · to Jun 202274,69111827%
  8. 8 · to Jun 202370,53912127%
  9. 9 · to Jun 202471,93311827%
  10. 10 · to Jun 202585,37912728%

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 27.5% of .news names in May 2025; the largest five together held 57.2%.

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 .news 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 85,355 names for May 2025; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 8,745 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
+78
left it
−69
changed nameservers
78
Net
+9
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 76,610 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers1,8482.4%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers9691.3%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers66,52886.8%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name7,2659.5%

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: 0.4%. 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 May 2015 to Jul 2015; general registration Jul 2015.

everything else