Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2014-05 · Dog Beach, LLC

.software TLD stats

.software held 23,864 names in October 2024, as Dog Beach, LLC reported to ICANN; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 26,520. 163 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, NameCheap, Inc., held 17.3%.

23,864
names, October 2024, reported to ICANN
26,520
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026
163
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, December 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 November 2015, 55 registrars held 10 or more .software names and the largest held 18%; by its eleventh, to November 2025, 91 did and the largest held 16%.

  1. 1 · to Nov 20159,3595518%
  2. 2 · to Nov 201610,7796018%
  3. 3 · to Nov 201712,6626022%
  4. 4 · to Nov 201814,7326421%
  5. 5 · to Nov 201916,2166921%
  6. 6 · to Nov 202017,6436920%
  7. 7 · to Nov 202120,1547419%
  8. 8 · to Nov 202225,1147816%
  9. 9 · to Nov 202329,5958317%
  10. 10 · to Nov 202423,9118717%
  11. 11 · to Nov 202525,1579116%

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

October 2024

NameCheap, Inc. held 17.3% of .software names in October 2024; the largest five together held 51.6%.

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

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .software among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 10 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 23,864 names for Oct 2024; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 2,656 more. The two are counted differently and 24 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
+32
left it
−10
changed nameservers
23
Net
+22
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 26,520 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers4511.7%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers870.3%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers22,86186.2%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name3,12111.8%

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: 0.2%. 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
Oct 2024 to Oct 2024

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Sunrise Sep 2014 to Nov 2014; general registration Dec 2014.

everything else