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

.news TLD stats

.news held 76,398 names in March 2026, as Dog Beach, LLC reported to ICANN; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 76,610. 257 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, GoDaddy.com, LLC, held 24.2%.

76,398
names, March 2026, reported to ICANN: 76,610
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026: 257
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%.

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

March 2026

GoDaddy.com, LLC held 24.2% of .news names in March 2026; the largest five together held 49.7%.

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

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.

Moderate (5):.journal .mag .magazine .trends .update

Cross-checkThe registry reported 76,398 names for Mar 2026; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 212 more. The two are counted differently and 7 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

Mar 2026 to Mar 2026

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.