Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2014-01 · Binky Moon, LLC

.tools TLD stats

.tools held 24,677 names in December 2024, as Binky Moon, LLC reported to ICANN; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 31,822. 202 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, NameCheap, Inc., held 26.6%.

24,677
names, December 2024, reported to ICANN
31,822
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026
202
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, June 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 May 2015, 53 registrars held 10 or more .tools names and the largest held 20%; by its twelfth, to May 2026, 91 did and the largest held 23%.

  1. 1 · to May 20157,1375320%
  2. 2 · to May 20167,5425921%
  3. 3 · to May 20179,0156420%
  4. 4 · to May 201811,2886816%
  5. 5 · to May 201913,0336917%
  6. 6 · to May 202014,5727116%
  7. 7 · to May 202117,1077621%
  8. 8 · to May 202220,2787723%
  9. 9 · to May 202321,8858524%
  10. 10 · to May 202423,8818627%
  11. 11 · to May 202525,6158625%
  12. 12 · to May 202629,8149123%

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 26.6% of .tools names in December 2024; the largest five together held 54.3%.

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 .tools among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 6 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 24,677 names for Dec 2024; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 7,145 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
+57
left it
−34
changed nameservers
40
Net
+23
Sep 13, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 31,822 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers5991.9%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers1820.6%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers28,52689.6%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name2,5157.9%

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: 0.3%. 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
Dec 2024 to Dec 2024

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

everything else