Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2014-04 · Binky Moon, LLC

.wtf TLD stats

.wtf held about 41,147 names in August 2026, by a third-party estimate; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 45,323.

41,147
names, August 2026, third-party estimate
45,323
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026

Names since general availability, July 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 June 2015, 46 registrars held 10 or more .wtf names and the largest held 25%; by its eleventh, to June 2025, 120 did and the largest held 27%.

  1. 1 · to Jun 20155,6244625%
  2. 2 · to Jun 20167,9825021%
  3. 3 · to Jun 20178,8485219%
  4. 4 · to Jun 201811,2045617%
  5. 5 · to Jun 201914,4366226%
  6. 6 · to Jun 202020,7306428%
  7. 7 · to Jun 202123,9256931%
  8. 8 · to Jun 202230,8977331%
  9. 9 · to Jun 202340,5047626%
  10. 10 · to Jun 202441,7539125%
  11. 11 · to Jun 202538,55312027%

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

May 2026

NameCheap, Inc. held 24.6% of .wtf names in May 2026; the largest five together held 56.8%.

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

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .wtf among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 29 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

last night, in detail

Oct 23, 2026
What moved · on Oct 23, 2026
entered the zone
+105
left it
−51
changed nameservers
78
Net
+54
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 45,323 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers1,6943.7%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers3010.7%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers41,06690.6%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name2,2625.0%

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: 2.9%. 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.

Aug 2026: 41,147 — third-party estimate; the registry has not published that month yet.

how many names, month by month

to
Aug 2026 to Aug 2026

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Dashed months are third-party estimates. Sunrise May 2014 to Jul 2014; general registration Jul 2014.

everything else