Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2013-12 · dotSaarland GmbH

.ruhr TLD stats

.ruhr held 4,662 names in March 2025, as dotSaarland GmbH reported to ICANN; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 4,338. 35 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, IONOS SE, held 23.0%. .ruhr fell by about half in its ninth year, from 9,981 to 5,384.

4,662
names, March 2025, reported to ICANN
4,338
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026
35
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, March 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 February 2015, 19 registrars held 10 or more .ruhr names and the largest held 53%; by its twelfth, to February 2026, 26 did and the largest held 23%.

  1. 1 · to Feb 20159,1401953%
  2. 2 · to Feb 201612,7732358%
  3. 3 · to Feb 201712,6652461%
  4. 4 · to Feb 201810,1452553%
  5. 5 · to Feb 201910,0692453%
  6. 6 · to Feb 202010,0162653%
  7. 7 · to Feb 202110,0332552%
  8. 8 · to Feb 20229,9812552%
  9. 9 · to Feb 20235,3842722%
  10. 10 · to Feb 20245,0732622%
  11. 11 · to Feb 20254,6462623%
  12. 12 · to Feb 20264,4602623%

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

IONOS SE held 23.0% of .ruhr names in March 2025; the largest five together held 66.5%.

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 .ruhr among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 5 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 4,662 names for Mar 2025; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 324 fewer. 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
+1
left it
−1
changed nameservers
0
Net
0
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 4,338 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers240.6%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers20.0%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers2,95368.1%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name1,35931.3%

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: 0.1%. 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 Feb 2014; general registration Mar 2014.

everything else