Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2014-11 · Blue Sky Registry Limited

.party TLD stats

.party held 23,560 names in October 2025, as Blue Sky Registry Limited reported to ICANN; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 24,546. 116 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, NameCheap, Inc., held 17.8%. .party fell by about half in its fifth year, from 94,664 to 20,544.

23,560
names, October 2025, reported to ICANN
24,546
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026
116
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, February 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 January 2016, 61 registrars held 10 or more .party names and the largest held 85%; by its eleventh, to January 2026, 59 did and the largest held 18%.

  1. 1 · to Jan 2016224,8626185%
  2. 2 · to Jan 2017135,7507256%
  3. 3 · to Jan 2018176,8477242%
  4. 4 · to Jan 201994,6646478%
  5. 5 · to Jan 202020,5446826%
  6. 6 · to Jan 202120,0066228%
  7. 7 · to Jan 202220,2206230%
  8. 8 · to Jan 202318,8926226%
  9. 9 · to Jan 202421,2836418%
  10. 10 · to Jan 202524,6416324%
  11. 11 · to Jan 202623,1335918%

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

October 2025

NameCheap, Inc. held 17.8% of .party names in October 2025; the largest five together held 63.8%.

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

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .party among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 4 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 23,560 names for Oct 2025; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 986 more. The two are counted differently and 12 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
+113
left it
−16
changed nameservers
22
Net
+97
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 24,546 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers3751.5%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers1780.7%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers22,07289.9%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name1,9217.8%

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.

how many names, month by month

to
Oct 2025 to Oct 2025

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Sunrise Dec 2014 to Feb 2015; general registration Feb 2015.

everything else