Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2014-02 · XYZ Registry

.xyz TLD stats

.xyz held 4,417,018 names in January 2025, as XYZ Registry reported to ICANN; its zone file on 23 Oct 2026 carried 11,651,733. 302 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, NameCheap, Inc., held 17.9%. .xyz fell by about half in its fourth year, from 5,995,292 to 2,079,674.

4.42M
names, January 2025, reported to ICANN
11.65M
in the zone file, 23 Oct 2026
302
registrars holding names

Names since general availability, June 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 May 2015, 77 registrars held 10 or more .xyz names and the largest held 39%; by its twelfth, to May 2026, 270 did and the largest held 54%.

  1. 1 · to May 2015960,1827739%
  2. 2 · to May 20162.90M13039%
  3. 3 · to May 20176.00M15726%
  4. 4 · to May 20182.08M17324%
  5. 5 · to May 20192.31M15620%
  6. 6 · to May 20203.14M15618%
  7. 7 · to May 20213.55M16820%
  8. 8 · to May 20224.94M22822%
  9. 9 · to May 20234.08M24323%
  10. 10 · to May 20243.89M24420%
  11. 11 · to May 20254.99M26221%
  12. 12 · to May 20268.56M27054%

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 2025

NameCheap, Inc. held 17.9% of .xyz names in January 2025; the largest five together held 62.3%.

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

2026 strings our model compared with it

When we scored the 2026 round, our model listed .xyz among the closest 2012-round TLDs for 24 applied-for strings. No applicant made these comparisons; strong and moderate are how close it judged each match.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 4,417,018 names for Jan 2025; the zone on Oct 23, 2026 held 7,234,715 more. The two are counted differently and 21 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
+124,268
left it
−7,216
changed nameservers
116,567
Net
+117,052
Sep 11, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 11,651,733 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers6,528,30456.0%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers1,394,95112.0%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers3,385,63229.1%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name342,8462.9%

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: 54.9%. 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.

how many names, month by month

to
Jan 2025 to Jan 2025

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Sunrise Mar 2014 to May 2014; general registration Jun 2014.

everything else