Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2014-08 · .top (Zhongze)

.top TLD stats

.top held 5,549,888 names in August 2025, as .top (Zhongze) reported to ICANN; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 6,322,289. 143 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, NameSilo, LLC, held 16.1%. .top fell by about half in its seventh year, from 2,800,027 to 1,502,179 and has since grown back to 5,549,888.

5.55M
names, August 2025, reported to ICANN
6.32M
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026
143
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, November 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 October 2015, 44 registrars held 10 or more .top names and the largest held 46%; by its eleventh, to October 2025, 121 did and the largest held 15%.

  1. 1 · to Oct 2015574,0694446%
  2. 2 · to Oct 20164.11M7535%
  3. 3 · to Oct 20172.77M8345%
  4. 4 · to Oct 20183.82M8954%
  5. 5 · to Oct 20193.69M9134%
  6. 6 · to Oct 20202.80M9138%
  7. 7 · to Oct 20211.50M9636%
  8. 8 · to Oct 20222.03M10027%
  9. 9 · to Oct 20232.88M11121%
  10. 10 · to Oct 20243.30M11719%
  11. 11 · to Oct 20256.13M12115%

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

August 2025

NameSilo, LLC held 16.1% of .top names in August 2025; the largest five together held 57.5%.

Shares add to 100%. From the registry's report for August 2025.

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .top among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 14 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 5,549,888 names for Aug 2025; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 772,401 more. The two are counted differently and 14 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
+16,437
left it
−17,022
changed nameservers
22,857
Net
−585
Sep 13, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 6,322,289 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers5,5510.1%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers113,8771.8%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers4,470,44170.7%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name1,732,42027.4%

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: 0.0%. 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
Aug 2025 to Aug 2025

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

everything else