Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2015-10 · ShortDot

.sbs TLD stats

.sbs held 980,175 names in August 2025, as ShortDot reported to ICANN; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 1,073,919. 74 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, NameSilo, LLC, held 31.5%. .sbs fell by 33% in its fifth year, from 3 to 2 and has since grown back to 980,175.

980,175
names, August 2025, reported to ICANN
1.07M
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026
74
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, January 2016

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 December 2016, 0 registrars held 10 or more .sbs names and the largest held 100%; by its tenth, to December 2025, 56 did and the largest held 26%.

  1. 1 · to Dec 201610100%
  2. 2 · to Dec 20173033%
  3. 3 · to Dec 20183033%
  4. 4 · to Dec 20193033%
  5. 5 · to Dec 20202050%
  6. 6 · to Dec 202123,7032160%
  7. 7 · to Dec 202283,9784349%
  8. 8 · to Dec 2023399,9255727%
  9. 9 · to Dec 2024923,6024348%
  10. 10 · to Dec 20251.34M5626%

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

August 2025

NameSilo, LLC held 31.5% of .sbs names in August 2025; the largest five together held 84.3%.

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

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .sbs among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 1 applied-for string. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 980,175 names for Aug 2025; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 93,744 more. The two are counted differently and 14 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
+3,566
left it
−2,380
changed nameservers
2,778
Net
+1,186
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 1,073,919 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers14,2231.3%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers44,2784.1%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers991,83492.4%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name23,5842.2%

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
Aug 2025 to Aug 2025

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Sunrise May 2021 to Jun 2021; general registration Jan 2016.

everything else