Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2016-05 · GMO Registry, Inc.

.shop TLD stats

.shop held 3,865,965 names in August 2025, as GMO Registry, Inc. reported to ICANN; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 4,280,033. 159 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, NameCheap, Inc., held 16.4%.

3.87M
names, August 2025, reported to ICANN
4.28M
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026
159
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, September 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 August 2017, 107 registrars held 10 or more .shop names and the largest held 18%; by its ninth, to August 2025, 137 did and the largest held 16%.

  1. 1 · to Aug 2017266,39110718%
  2. 2 · to Aug 2018647,85011332%
  3. 3 · to Aug 2019739,11711920%
  4. 4 · to Aug 2020735,57112312%
  5. 5 · to Aug 20211.03M12514%
  6. 6 · to Aug 20221.27M12919%
  7. 7 · to Aug 20232.00M13422%
  8. 8 · to Aug 20243.48M13521%
  9. 9 · to Aug 20253.87M13716%

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

NameCheap, Inc. held 16.4% of .shop names in August 2025; the largest five together held 61.7%.

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 .shop among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 7 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 3,865,965 names for Aug 2025; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 414,068 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
+11,510
left it
−14,509
changed nameservers
15,407
Net
−2,999
Sep 13, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 4,280,033 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers69,8201.6%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers74,0841.7%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers3,965,52892.7%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name170,6014.0%

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: 1.3%. 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 Jun 2016 to Aug 2016; general registration Sep 2016.

everything else