139,327 domains were born on Wednesday, August 26, 2026
On Wednesday, August 26, 2026 the census compared 1,052 zone files holding 75,812,005 domains against the day before. 139,327 names were new (0.184% of the universe), 104,655 were gone, net +34,672. 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 website33,673 24.2%
- Parked or for sale2,678 1.9%
- Registered, no site yet23,314 16.7%
- Nothing there at all50,039 35.9%
- Couldn't tell29,623 21.3%
What the 33,673 live sites are about
Where the new names landed
| TLD | Born | Gone | Flagged /1k |
|---|---|---|---|
| .top | 31,455 | 28,819 | — |
| .org | 9,295 | 4,945 | — |
| .online | 9,153 | 6,356 | — |
| .shop | 8,112 | 7,515 | — |
| .site | 6,012 | 3,314 | — |
| .xyz | 4,659 | 5,293 | — |
| .info | 4,622 | 4,347 | — |
| .app | 4,489 | 1,592 | — |
| .store | 4,338 | 3,950 | — |
| .live | 3,721 | 2,532 | — |
| .click | 3,332 | 1,155 | — |
| .asia | 3,029 | 601 | — |
| .vip | 2,816 | 1,871 | — |
| .pro | 2,782 | 2,323 | — |
| .icu | 1,548 | 1,832 | — |
| .biz | 1,489 | 930 | — |
| .lol | 1,456 | 504 | — |
| .space | 1,151 | 1,072 | — |
| .sbs | 1,149 | 1,294 | — |
| .cfd | 1,141 | 843 | — |
| .fun | 969 | 705 | — |
| .world | 960 | 690 | — |
| .link | 957 | 1,329 | — |
| .homes | 946 | 104 | — |
| .cam | 943 | 286 | — |
Top 25 of 506 TLDs with a birth or death that day. Full table: /api/zone/census/tlds?day=2026-08-26.
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.