Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2014-09 · GoDaddy Registry

.work TLD stats

.work held 358,819 names in January 2026, as GoDaddy Registry reported to ICANN; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 345,385. 160 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, GoDaddy.com, LLC, held 42.6%. .work fell by 40% in its eighth year, from 478,001 to 287,086.

358,819
names, January 2026, reported to ICANN
345,385
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026
160
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, 53 registrars held 10 or more .work names and the largest held 31%; by its eleventh, to January 2026, 132 did and the largest held 43%.

  1. 1 · to Jan 2016100,3435331%
  2. 2 · to Jan 201778,3516328%
  3. 3 · to Jan 2018192,2987164%
  4. 4 · to Jan 2019566,5197874%
  5. 5 · to Jan 2020667,5218869%
  6. 6 · to Jan 2021655,5129071%
  7. 7 · to Jan 2022478,0019546%
  8. 8 · to Jan 2023287,08610144%
  9. 9 · to Jan 2024259,37511837%
  10. 10 · to Jan 2025250,93412025%
  11. 11 · to Jan 2026358,81913243%

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

January 2026

GoDaddy.com, LLC held 42.6% of .work names in January 2026; the largest five together held 71.0%.

Shares add to 100%. From the registry's report for January 2026.

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .work 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 358,819 names for Jan 2026; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 13,434 fewer. The two are counted differently and 9 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
+666
left it
−309
changed nameservers
347
Net
+357
Sep 15, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 345,385 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers3,3211.0%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers2,7450.8%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers324,60394.0%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name14,7164.3%

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: 0.3%. 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
Jan 2026 to Jan 2026

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Sunrise Nov 2014 to Jan 2015; general registration Feb 2015.

everything else