161,125 domains were born on Sunday, August 23, 2026
On Sunday, August 23, 2026 the census compared 1,052 zone files holding 75,710,474 domains against the day before. 161,125 names were new (0.213% of the universe), 136,736 were gone, net +24,389. 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 website30,071 18.7%
- Parked or for sale3,803 2.4%
- Registered, no site yet26,166 16.2%
- Nothing there at all53,443 33.2%
- Couldn't tell47,642 29.6%
What the 30,071 live sites are about
Where the new names landed
| TLD | Born | Gone | Flagged /1k |
|---|---|---|---|
| .shop | 51,649 | 54,194 | — |
| .top | 17,533 | 8,008 | — |
| .xyz | 14,445 | 9,496 | — |
| .org | 7,574 | 6,265 | — |
| .online | 6,804 | 10,045 | — |
| .site | 5,390 | 4,215 | — |
| .info | 4,892 | 4,681 | — |
| .store | 4,252 | 5,661 | — |
| .vip | 2,752 | 2,243 | — |
| .asia | 2,356 | 951 | — |
| .fun | 2,320 | 955 | — |
| .lol | 2,290 | 463 | — |
| .help | 2,264 | 431 | — |
| .pro | 1,998 | 2,318 | — |
| .sbs | 1,697 | 1,766 | — |
| .cfd | 1,606 | 1,495 | — |
| .live | 1,494 | 1,095 | — |
| .buzz | 1,426 | 1,083 | — |
| .icu | 1,236 | 1,138 | — |
| .dev | 1,202 | 374 | — |
| .cyou | 1,163 | 574 | — |
| .click | 1,149 | 917 | — |
| .lat | 1,122 | 279 | — |
| .space | 1,117 | 1,058 | — |
| .tech | 847 | 622 | — |
Top 25 of 473 TLDs with a birth or death that day. Full table: /api/zone/census/tlds?day=2026-08-23.
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.