.nowruz held 11 names in September 2025, as its registry reported to ICANN; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 10. 2 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, Key-Systems, LLC, held 63.6%. .nowruz fell by about half in its third year, from 17 to 6.
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 February 2019, 1 registrars held 10 or more .nowruz names and the largest held 84%; by its eighth, to February 2026, 0 did and the largest held 64%.
YearNamesRegistrars with 10+Largest registrar
1 · to Feb 201945184%
2 · to Feb 202017165%
3 · to Feb 20216033%
4 · to Feb 202213046%
5 · to Feb 202312050%
6 · to Feb 202412058%
7 · to Feb 2025fewer than nine monthly reports
8 · to Feb 202611064%
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
September 2025
Key-Systems, LLC held 63.6% of .nowruz names in September 2025; the largest five together held 81.8%.
Shares add to 100%. From the registry's report for September 2025.
2026 strings our model compared with it
When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .nowruz among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 8 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.
Cross-checkThe registry reported 11 names for Sep 2025; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 1 fewer. The two are counted differently and 13 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
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 · 10 names
Listed for salemarketplace nameservers00.0%
Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers440.0%
In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers220.0%
Not classifiednameservers we can’t name440.0%
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: 0.0%. 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
Sep 2025 to Sep 2025
Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Sunrise Jan 2018 to Mar 2018; general registration Mar 2018.