Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2015-03 · Elegant Leader Limited

.xin TLD stats

.xin held 44,876 names in February 2025, as Elegant Leader Limited reported to ICANN; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 62,128. 15 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn), held 50.5%. .xin fell by about half in its fifth year, from 136,189 to 61,068.

44,876
names, February 2025, reported to ICANN
62,128
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026
15
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, October 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 September 2016, 4 registrars held 10 or more .xin names and the largest held 100%; by its tenth, to September 2025, 13 did and the largest held 52%.

  1. 1 · to Sep 2016331,3644100%
  2. 2 · to Sep 2017357,3934100%
  3. 3 · to Sep 2018277,1135100%
  4. 4 · to Sep 2019136,1895100%
  5. 5 · to Sep 202061,068799%
  6. 6 · to Sep 202133,196799%
  7. 7 · to Sep 202221,859793%
  8. 8 · to Sep 202315,498592%
  9. 9 · to Sep 202411,684597%
  10. 10 · to Sep 2025112,6571352%

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

February 2025

Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn) held 50.5% of .xin names in February 2025; the largest five together held 99.1%.

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

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .xin 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 44,876 names for Feb 2025; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 17,252 more. The two are counted differently and 20 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
+77
left it
−33
changed nameservers
118
Net
+44
Sep 16, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 62,128 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers460.1%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers1,1191.8%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers59,51995.8%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name1,4442.3%

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: 0.0%. 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
Feb 2025 to Feb 2025

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Sunrise Aug 2015 to Sep 2015; general registration Oct 2015.

everything else