Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2015-11 · GoDaddy Registry

.vip TLD stats

.vip held 1,510,999 names in August 2025, as GoDaddy Registry reported to ICANN; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 1,964,591. 178 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, GoDaddy.com, LLC, held 31.5%. .vip fell by 37% in its fifth year, from 1,406,262 to 892,228 and has since grown back to 1,510,999.

1.51M
names, August 2025, reported to ICANN
1.96M
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026
178
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, May 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 April 2017, 92 registrars held 10 or more .vip names and the largest held 35%; by its tenth, to April 2026, 153 did and the largest held 28%.

  1. 1 · to Apr 2017811,9879235%
  2. 2 · to Apr 2018889,1969330%
  3. 3 · to Apr 2019869,5879548%
  4. 4 · to Apr 20201.41M9534%
  5. 5 · to Apr 2021892,22810530%
  6. 6 · to Apr 2022689,11310622%
  7. 7 · to Apr 2023741,26112217%
  8. 8 · to Apr 2024974,10413225%
  9. 9 · to Apr 20251.37M14532%
  10. 10 · to Apr 20261.82M15328%

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

GoDaddy.com, LLC held 31.5% of .vip names in August 2025; the largest five together held 74.6%.

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 .vip among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 5 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 1,510,999 names for Aug 2025; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 453,592 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
+3,963
left it
−2,466
changed nameservers
7,395
Net
+1,497
Sep 15, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 1,964,591 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers8,4890.4%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers33,6181.7%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers1,760,10189.6%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name162,3838.3%

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: 0.1%. 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 Mar 2016 to May 2016; general registration May 2016.

everything else