.ren TLD stats
.ren held 10,050 names in December 2024, as ZDNS International Limited reported to ICANN; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 12,698. 20 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn), held 58.4%. .ren fell by about half in its fifth year, from 110,643 to 20,997.
- 10,050
- 12,698
- 20
Names since general availability, September 2014
Year by year since launch, as the registry reported it
In its first year, to August 2015, 10 registrars held 10 or more .ren names and the largest held 49%; by its eleventh, to August 2025, 16 did and the largest held 52%.
Who sells it
December 2024Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn) held 58.4% of .ren names in December 2024; the largest five together held 92.1%.
2026 strings our model compared with it
When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .ren among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 6 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.
Cross-checkThe registry reported 10,050 names for Dec 2024; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 2,648 more. The two are counted differently and 22 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- entered the zone
- +8
- left it
- −1
- changed nameservers
- 11
- Net
- +7
- Listed for sale790.6%
- Parked110.1%
- In use11,79892.9%
- Not classified8106.4%