Stats
Legacy gTLD · delegated 2007-03 · Telnames Limited

.tel TLD stats

.tel held 38,495 names in June 2026, as Telnames Limited reported to ICANN; a third-party estimate put it at about 35,941 in October 2026; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 35,932. .tel fell by 43% in its 14th year, from 94,667 to 54,371.

38,495
names, June 2026, reported to ICANN
35,932
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026

Names since general availability, March 2009

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 fourth year, to February 2011, 116 registrars held 10 or more .tel names and the largest held 18%; by its 19th, to February 2026, 101 did and the largest held 16%.

  1. 3 · to Feb 2010fewer than nine monthly reports
  2. 4 · to Feb 2011305,40711618%
  3. 5 · to Feb 2012272,03011818%
  4. 6 · to Feb 2013213,98012122%
  5. 7 · to Feb 2014185,80511224%
  6. 8 · to Feb 2015129,48611014%
  7. 9 · to Feb 2016114,97211415%
  8. 10 · to Feb 201798,16311013%
  9. 11 · to Feb 201877,47310915%
  10. 12 · to Feb 201975,42011418%
  11. 13 · to Feb 202094,66711334%
  12. 14 · to Feb 202154,37111115%
  13. 15 · to Feb 202248,59410711%
  14. 16 · to Feb 202346,69110613%
  15. 17 · to Feb 202443,72610514%
  16. 18 · to Feb 202539,71010414%
  17. 19 · to Feb 202639,06210116%

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 2026

Name.com, Inc. held 15.9% of .tel names in May 2026; the largest five together held 36.8%.

Shares add to 100%. From the registry's report for May 2026.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 38,495 names for Jun 2026; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 2,563 fewer. The two are counted differently and 4 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
+8
left it
−14
changed nameservers
15
Net
−6
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 35,932 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers5921.6%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers1590.4%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers14,85641.3%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name20,32556.6%

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.

Oct 2026: 35,941 — third-party estimate; the registry has not published that month yet.

how many names, month by month

Nov 2016 to Oct 2026

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Dashed months are third-party estimates.

everything else