New gTLD · delegated 2016-03 · dot Stream Limited

.stream TLD stats

.stream held 13,532 names in December 2024, as dot Stream Limited reported to ICANN; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 19,843. 88 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, NameCheap, Inc., held 29.8%. .stream fell by about half in its fourth year, from 170,213 to 15,136.

13,532
names, December 2024, reported to ICANN
19,843
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026
88
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, June 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 May 2017, 41 registrars held 10 or more .stream names and the largest held 53%; by its tenth, to May 2026, 55 did and the largest held 24%.

  1. 1 · to May 201772,1714153%
  2. 2 · to May 2018274,8353997%
  3. 3 · to May 2019170,2133898%
  4. 4 · to May 202015,1364354%
  5. 5 · to May 202119,0325156%
  6. 6 · to May 202215,7485550%
  7. 7 · to May 202314,0375437%
  8. 8 · to May 202413,8775432%
  9. 9 · to May 202513,7075729%
  10. 10 · to May 202615,1525524%

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

NameCheap, Inc. held 29.8% of .stream names in December 2024; the largest five together held 67.5%.

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 .stream among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 9 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 13,532 names for Dec 2024; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 6,311 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
+102
left it
−10
changed nameservers
14
Net
+92
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 19,843 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers1750.9%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers1310.7%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers17,95590.5%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name1,5828.0%

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: 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
Dec 2024 to Dec 2024

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

everything else