175,716 domains were born on Saturday, August 22, 2026
On Saturday, August 22, 2026 the census compared 1,052 zone files holding 75,686,085 domains against the day before. 175,716 names were new (0.232% of the universe), 103,470 were gone, net +72,246. Every new name was probed once over HTTP, honouring robots.txt, to see what was behind it. See the newest day.
New domains per day
What was behind the new names
- Active website26,858 15.3%
- Parked or for sale3,563 2.0%
- Registered, no site yet22,615 12.9%
- Nothing there at all48,855 27.8%
- Couldn't tell73,825 42.0%
What the 26,858 live sites are about
Where the new names landed
| TLD | Born | Gone | Flagged /1k |
|---|---|---|---|
| .xyz | 67,018 | 11,801 | — |
| .top | 13,935 | 12,726 | — |
| .org | 9,128 | 6,697 | — |
| .online | 8,335 | 6,639 | — |
| .site | 7,003 | 4,344 | — |
| .info | 5,217 | 8,950 | — |
| .store | 4,667 | 4,942 | — |
| .app | 4,480 | 1,279 | — |
| .click | 3,365 | 1,603 | — |
| .lol | 2,966 | 1,772 | — |
| .vip | 2,925 | 2,457 | — |
| .pro | 2,399 | 5,464 | — |
| .live | 1,814 | 1,241 | — |
| .tech | 1,635 | 517 | — |
| .cyou | 1,626 | 624 | — |
| .sbs | 1,486 | 1,944 | — |
| .space | 1,450 | 1,244 | — |
| .buzz | 1,425 | 327 | — |
| .cfd | 1,389 | 1,342 | — |
| .asia | 1,332 | 728 | — |
| .dev | 1,288 | 415 | — |
| .world | 1,148 | 549 | — |
| .lat | 1,065 | 352 | — |
| .fun | 1,042 | 908 | — |
| .digital | 973 | 271 | — |
Top 25 of 501 TLDs with a birth or death that day. Full table: /api/zone/census/tlds?day=2026-08-22.
Who is parking them
What the live sites are built with
Writing system of the live sites
How old the departed names were
Risk signals
About this data
The census diffs the zone files ICANN's Centralized Zone Data Service publishes for about a thousand gTLDs, plus a sample of .com and .net, against the previous day. A birth is a name present today and absent yesterday; a death is the reverse. Births are probed once over HTTP with an identified user agent, robots.txt honoured, and classified by what came back. Subjects are assigned by a language model reading the page text. The risk scorer is deterministic and additive; its weights and word lists are public in the API's reasons field.
Aggregates and named rows are free as JSON: API docs. Per-domain answers are also on every domain report. Names in .com and .net are counted in every aggregate but not listed by name until the redistribution terms of that zone's access agreement are confirmed.