Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2014-01 · GoDaddy Registry

.photo TLD stats

.photo held 16,794 names in January 2026, as GoDaddy Registry reported to ICANN; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 16,427. 118 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, NameCheap, Inc., held 16.0%. .photo fell by about half in its twelfth year, from 30,392 to 16,437.

16,794
names, January 2026, reported to ICANN
16,427
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026
118
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, April 2014

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 March 2015, 51 registrars held 10 or more .photo names and the largest held 39%; by its twelfth, to March 2026, 73 did and the largest held 16%.

  1. 1 · to Mar 201517,4485139%
  2. 2 · to Mar 201627,0556125%
  3. 3 · to Mar 201727,7036618%
  4. 4 · to Mar 201819,8176918%
  5. 5 · to Mar 201919,8797015%
  6. 6 · to Mar 202019,1756713%
  7. 7 · to Mar 202118,6427014%
  8. 8 · to Mar 202218,6377217%
  9. 9 · to Mar 202317,6987417%
  10. 10 · to Mar 202417,0446716%
  11. 11 · to Mar 202530,3926930%
  12. 12 · to Mar 202616,4377316%

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 2026

NameCheap, Inc. held 16.0% of .photo names in January 2026; the largest five together held 42.5%.

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

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .photo 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 16,794 names for Jan 2026; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 367 fewer. The two are counted differently and 9 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
+11
left it
−6
changed nameservers
11
Net
+5
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 16,427 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers1130.7%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers690.4%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers13,58182.7%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name2,66416.2%

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
Jan 2026 to Jan 2026

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Sunrise Jan 2014 to Mar 2014; general registration Apr 2014.

everything else