Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2015-04 · ICM Registry SX LLC

.sex TLD stats

.sex held 6,624 names in May 2025, as ICM Registry SX LLC reported to ICANN; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 6,838. 84 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, GoDaddy.com, LLC, held 12.7%. .sex fell by 34% in its second year, from 13,034 to 8,629.

6,624
names, May 2025, reported to ICANN
6,838
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026
84
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, November 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 October 2016, 57 registrars held 10 or more .sex names and the largest held 18%; by its tenth, to October 2025, 56 did and the largest held 12%.

  1. 1 · to Oct 201613,0345718%
  2. 2 · to Oct 20178,6295712%
  3. 3 · to Oct 20188,1515412%
  4. 4 · to Oct 20198,2285717%
  5. 5 · to Oct 20208,0275518%
  6. 6 · to Oct 20218,4015816%
  7. 7 · to Oct 20227,7805613%
  8. 8 · to Oct 20237,0905412%
  9. 9 · to Oct 20246,8195613%
  10. 10 · to Oct 20256,6185612%

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 2025

GoDaddy.com, LLC held 12.7% of .sex names in May 2025; the largest five together held 42.4%.

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

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .sex 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 6,624 names for May 2025; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 214 more. The two are counted differently and 17 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
2
Net
0
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 6,838 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers2133.1%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers2734.0%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers4,62267.6%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name1,73025.3%

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: 0.2%. 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
May 2025 to May 2025

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Sunrise Sep 2015 to Oct 2015; general registration Nov 2015.

everything else