Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2014-01 · XYZ Registry

.pics TLD stats

.pics held 80,317 names in March 2025, as XYZ Registry reported to ICANN; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 123,593. 127 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, NameCheap, Inc., held 21.3%. .pics fell by about half in its third year, from 32,330 to 16,222 and has since grown back to 80,317.

80,317
names, March 2025, reported to ICANN
123,593
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026
127
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, 40 registrars held 10 or more .pics names and the largest held 35%; by its twelfth, to March 2026, 67 did and the largest held 32%.

  1. 1 · to Mar 20159,3054035%
  2. 2 · to Mar 201632,3305353%
  3. 3 · to Mar 201716,2225419%
  4. 4 · to Mar 20189,0124814%
  5. 5 · to Mar 20197,1134713%
  6. 6 · to Mar 20206,1554212%
  7. 7 · to Mar 20216,1514219%
  8. 8 · to Mar 20227,9104819%
  9. 9 · to Mar 202343,6157636%
  10. 10 · to Mar 202480,3178324%
  11. 11 · to Mar 202580,3176721%
  12. 12 · to Mar 202698,4386732%

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

March 2025

NameCheap, Inc. held 21.3% of .pics names in March 2025; the largest five together held 76.8%.

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

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .pics 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 80,317 names for Mar 2025; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 43,276 more. The two are counted differently and 19 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
+538
left it
−526
changed nameservers
321
Net
+12
Sep 15, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 123,593 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers1,0590.9%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers8,3096.7%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers112,32090.9%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name1,9051.5%

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
Mar 2025 to Mar 2025

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