Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2014-02 · dotQPON LLC

.qpon TLD stats

.qpon held 15,600 names in April 2025, as dotQPON LLC reported to ICANN; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 66,409. 49 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, Domain International Services Limited, held 36.8%. .qpon fell by 42% in its seventh year, from 417 to 242 and has since grown back to 15,600.

15,600
names, April 2025, reported to ICANN
66,409
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026
49
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, May 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 April 2015, 14 registrars held 10 or more .qpon names and the largest held 32%; by its twelfth, to April 2026, 30 did and the largest held 60%.

  1. 1 · to Apr 20156401432%
  2. 2 · to Apr 20165731519%
  3. 3 · to Apr 20174971120%
  4. 4 · to Apr 20184931120%
  5. 5 · to Apr 20194791021%
  6. 6 · to Apr 2020417824%
  7. 7 · to Apr 2021242641%
  8. 8 · to Apr 2022288837%
  9. 9 · to Apr 2023523929%
  10. 10 · to Apr 2024479934%
  11. 11 · to Apr 202515,6001837%
  12. 12 · to Apr 202687,6073060%

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

April 2025

Domain International Services Limited held 36.8% of .qpon names in April 2025; the largest five together held 96.5%.

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

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .qpon among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 2 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 15,600 names for Apr 2025; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 50,809 more. The two are counted differently and 18 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
+48
left it
−29
changed nameservers
97
Net
+19
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 66,409 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers210.0%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers1,1521.7%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers61,45992.5%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name3,7775.7%

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: 0.0%. 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
Apr 2025 to Apr 2025

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

everything else