Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2014-01 · Dog Beach, LLC

.social TLD stats

.social held 46,037 names in December 2024, as Dog Beach, LLC reported to ICANN; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 49,288. 213 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, GoDaddy.com, LLC, held 23.6%.

46,037
names, December 2024, reported to ICANN
49,288
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026
213
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, May 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 April 2015, 45 registrars held 10 or more .social names and the largest held 22%; by its twelfth, to April 2026, 122 did and the largest held 19%.

  1. 1 · to Apr 201512,1234522%
  2. 2 · to Apr 201617,0125422%
  3. 3 · to Apr 201719,5326323%
  4. 4 · to Apr 201823,7566125%
  5. 5 · to Apr 201925,4856923%
  6. 6 · to Apr 202024,6776623%
  7. 7 · to Apr 202125,0237019%
  8. 8 · to Apr 202228,9297718%
  9. 9 · to Apr 202345,6308324%
  10. 10 · to Apr 202455,3909138%
  11. 11 · to Apr 202546,9599822%
  12. 12 · to Apr 202649,50112219%

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

December 2024

GoDaddy.com, LLC held 23.6% of .social names in December 2024; the largest five together held 59.6%.

Shares add to 100%. From the registry's report for December 2024.

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .social among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 4 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 46,037 names for Dec 2024; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 3,251 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
What moved · on Oct 23, 2026
entered the zone
+202
left it
−41
changed nameservers
39
Net
+161
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 49,288 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers1,8533.8%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers2710.5%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers43,33487.9%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name3,8307.8%

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: 0.5%. 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
Dec 2024 to Dec 2024

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Sunrise Feb 2014 to Apr 2014; general registration May 2014.

everything else