Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2014-07 · Public Interest Registry

.ong TLD stats

.ong held 4,254 names in January 2025, as Public Interest Registry reported to ICANN; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 1,972. 39 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, NameCheap, Inc., held 14.2%.

4,254
names, January 2025, reported to ICANN
1,972
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026
39
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, May 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 April 2016, 24 registrars held 10 or more .ong names and the largest held 29%; by its eleventh, to April 2026, 28 did and the largest held 14%.

  1. 1 · to Apr 20164,5342429%
  2. 2 · to Apr 20174,3322245%
  3. 3 · to Apr 20183,9342139%
  4. 4 · to Apr 20193,8192134%
  5. 5 · to Apr 20204,0942424%
  6. 6 · to Apr 20214,1952521%
  7. 7 · to Apr 20224,1362422%
  8. 8 · to Apr 20233,7982520%
  9. 9 · to Apr 20243,7022716%
  10. 10 · to Apr 20254,2682915%
  11. 11 · to Apr 20264,1732814%

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

January 2025

NameCheap, Inc. held 14.2% of .ong names in January 2025; the largest five together held 54.7%.

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

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .ong among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 1 applied-for string. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 4,254 names for Jan 2025; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 2,282 fewer. The two are counted differently and 21 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
+5
left it
−4
changed nameservers
1
Net
+1
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 1,972 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers40.2%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers70.4%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers1,51576.8%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name44622.6%

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

to
Jan 2025 to Jan 2025

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Sunrise Mar 2015 to Apr 2015; general registration May 2015.

everything else