Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2014-08 · Nominet UK

.wales TLD stats

.wales held 13,246 names in December 2024, as Nominet UK reported to ICANN; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 13,024. 54 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, Mesh Digital Limited, held 34.9%.

13,246
names, December 2024, reported to ICANN
13,024
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026
54
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, February 2015

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 January 2016, 36 registrars held 10 or more .wales names and the largest held 53%; by its eleventh, to January 2026, 41 did and the largest held 31%.

  1. 1 · to Jan 201612,6913653%
  2. 2 · to Jan 201713,0043647%
  3. 3 · to Jan 201813,9043447%
  4. 4 · to Jan 201913,4443545%
  5. 5 · to Jan 202013,6593447%
  6. 6 · to Jan 202113,9483743%
  7. 7 · to Jan 202214,2664141%
  8. 8 · to Jan 202315,0104239%
  9. 9 · to Jan 202413,7334336%
  10. 10 · to Jan 202513,2494235%
  11. 11 · to Jan 202613,4394131%

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

Mesh Digital Limited held 34.9% of .wales names in December 2024; the largest five together held 74.9%.

Shares add to 100%. From the registry's report for December 2024.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 13,246 names for Dec 2024; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 222 fewer. 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
+8
left it
−3
changed nameservers
4
Net
+5
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 13,024 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers880.7%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers370.3%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers10,40279.9%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name2,49719.2%

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.

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 Sep 2014 to Oct 2014; general registration Feb 2015.

everything else