New gTLD · delegated 2015-03 · Binky Moon, LLC

.plus TLD stats

.plus held about 36,141 names in August 2026, by a third-party estimate; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 40,091.

36,141
names, August 2026, third-party estimate
40,091
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026

Names since general availability, June 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 May 2016, 54 registrars held 10 or more .plus names and the largest held 20%; by its eleventh, to May 2026, 103 did and the largest held 19%.

  1. 1 · to May 20165,5835420%
  2. 2 · to May 20178,0716017%
  3. 3 · to May 201810,9946314%
  4. 4 · to May 201914,2696914%
  5. 5 · to May 202022,1307816%
  6. 6 · to May 202128,9467520%
  7. 7 · to May 202232,7109518%
  8. 8 · to May 202330,39012317%
  9. 9 · to May 202430,39013414%
  10. 10 · to May 202539,23512219%
  11. 11 · to May 202635,70910319%

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

NameCheap, Inc. held 19.1% of .plus names in May 2026; the largest five together held 53.4%.

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 .plus among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 11 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
+76
left it
−45
changed nameservers
40
Net
+31
Sep 15, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 40,091 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers2,7426.8%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers2470.6%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers34,40985.8%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name2,6936.7%

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: 0.4%. 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: 36,141 — 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 Apr 2015 to Jun 2015; general registration Jun 2015.

everything else