New gTLD · delegated 2013-12 · Binky Moon, LLC

.photos TLD stats

.photos held about 18,986 names in August 2026, by a third-party estimate; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 19,053.

18,986
names, August 2026, third-party estimate
19,053
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026

Names since general availability, February 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 January 2015, 52 registrars held 10 or more .photos names and the largest held 36%; by its twelfth, to January 2026, 70 did and the largest held 25%.

  1. 1 · to Jan 201517,7475236%
  2. 2 · to Jan 201619,4286035%
  3. 3 · to Jan 201718,7165832%
  4. 4 · to Jan 201820,2776833%
  5. 5 · to Jan 201921,8287030%
  6. 6 · to Jan 202022,1896929%
  7. 7 · to Jan 202123,1016930%
  8. 8 · to Jan 202223,5657328%
  9. 9 · to Jan 202322,8657327%
  10. 10 · to Jan 202422,2187326%
  11. 11 · to Jan 202524,4907324%
  12. 12 · to Jan 202619,9337025%

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

May 2026

GoDaddy.com, LLC held 24.6% of .photos names in May 2026; the largest five together held 57.0%.

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

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .photos 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.

last night, in detail

Oct 23, 2026
What moved · on Oct 23, 2026
entered the zone
+15
left it
−14
changed nameservers
11
Net
+1
Sep 13, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 19,053 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers3892.0%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers960.5%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers16,67887.5%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name1,8909.9%

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.

Aug 2026: 18,986 — third-party estimate; the registry has not published that month yet.

how many names, month by month

to
Aug 2026 to Aug 2026

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Dashed months are third-party estimates. Sunrise Dec 2013 to Feb 2014; general registration Feb 2014.

everything else