Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2014-03 · Elite Registry Limited

.trade TLD stats

.trade held 22,246 names in April 2025, as Elite Registry Limited reported to ICANN; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 28,599. 122 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, NameCheap, Inc., held 18.1%. .trade fell by about half in its sixth year, from 96,155 to 17,599.

22,246
names, April 2025, reported to ICANN
28,599
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026
122
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 .trade names and the largest held 30%; by its twelfth, to May 2026, 81 did and the largest held 17%.

  1. 1 · to May 201511,1945330%
  2. 2 · to May 201682,2156435%
  3. 3 · to May 2017161,1107432%
  4. 4 · to May 2018166,8087370%
  5. 5 · to May 201996,1557281%
  6. 6 · to May 202017,5996827%
  7. 7 · to May 202121,1327227%
  8. 8 · to May 202220,7847230%
  9. 9 · to May 202319,1367425%
  10. 10 · to May 202420,9397818%
  11. 11 · to May 202522,2067818%
  12. 12 · to May 202626,3408117%

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

April 2025

NameCheap, Inc. held 18.1% of .trade names in April 2025; the largest five together held 55.1%.

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

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .trade among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 8 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 22,246 names for Apr 2025; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 6,353 more. The two are counted differently and 18 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
+91
left it
−21
changed nameservers
30
Net
+70
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 28,599 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers1,0373.6%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers1460.5%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers24,39685.3%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name3,02010.6%

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: 0.6%. 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
Apr 2025 to Apr 2025

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

everything else