279,022 domains were born on Wednesday, September 16, 2026
On Wednesday, September 16, 2026 the census compared 1,060 zone files holding 76,860,100 domains against the day before. 279,022 names were new (0.363% of the universe), 126,131 were gone, net +152,891. 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 website27,714 9.9%
- Parked or for sale3,842 1.4%
- Registered, no site yet26,694 9.6%
- Nothing there at all77,531 27.8%
- Couldn't tell143,241 51.3%
What the 27,714 live sites are about
Where the new names landed
| TLD | Born | Gone | Flagged /1k |
|---|---|---|---|
| .xyz | 104,859 | 7,826 | 2.3 |
| .cfd | 24,077 | 1,547 | 0.3 |
| .online | 17,770 | 12,995 | 2.2 |
| .lol | 17,693 | 1,392 | 1.0 |
| .top | 16,988 | 23,133 | 2.6 |
| .shop | 14,759 | 14,581 | 68.0 |
| .org | 11,977 | 9,440 | 3.0 |
| .app | 7,973 | 2,775 | 2.5 |
| .info | 7,775 | 6,492 | 6.7 |
| .store | 6,548 | 6,199 | 4.1 |
| .click | 2,911 | 1,769 | 3.4 |
| .dev | 2,523 | 883 | 1.2 |
| .sbs | 2,393 | 2,087 | 7.1 |
| .cyou | 2,046 | 1,069 | 1.5 |
| .pro | 1,920 | 3,270 | 2.6 |
| .space | 1,893 | 909 | 2.6 |
| .live | 1,713 | 1,402 | 5.3 |
| .club | 1,695 | 649 | 1.8 |
| .tech | 1,435 | 608 | 4.9 |
| .icu | 1,408 | 1,448 | 7.1 |
| .fun | 1,364 | 979 | 13.9 |
| .cloud | 1,285 | 1,286 | 3.9 |
| .digital | 1,171 | 421 | 5.1 |
| .asia | 1,106 | 695 | 0.9 |
| .blog | 1,005 | 716 | 3.0 |
Top 25 of 463 TLDs with a birth or death that day. Full table: /api/zone/census/tlds?day=2026-09-16.
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
Every one of the 461,587 births was scored on its name, its nameservers and registrar, and the page it served. 15,116 scored at all; 1,029 critical, 946 high, 2,243 medium, 10,898 low. The top 300 were screenshotted and shown to a model, which called 245 of them phishing, scam or abuse and 14 benign.
TLDs with the most flagged births per 1,000
Signals that fired most
Brands most often echoed in new names
Registrars of flagged names
Nameserver providers of flagged names
Worth a second look
Signals, not verdicts. A domain appears here because heuristics matched its name, its infrastructure or the page it served on its first day. Where a model has looked at it, that is shown as an opinion with a confidence, not as a finding. Nothing on this page says a site is malicious. Read the evidence and decide for yourself.
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Model opinion: looks like abuse, confidence 84%. An opinion, not a finding.
Model opinion: looks benign, confidence 72%. An opinion, not a finding.
Model opinion: looks like abuse, confidence 90%. An opinion, not a finding.
Model opinion: looks benign, confidence 82%. An opinion, not a finding.
Model opinion: looks like abuse (target: TikTok), confidence 92%. An opinion, not a finding.
Model opinion: looks benign, confidence 95%. An opinion, not a finding.
Model opinion: looks like phishing (target: Trust Wallet), confidence 90%. An opinion, not a finding.
Model opinion: looks benign, confidence 97%. An opinion, not a finding.
Model opinion: suspicious, confidence 55%. An opinion, not a finding.
Model opinion: looks like abuse, confidence 95%. An opinion, not a finding.
Model opinion: looks benign, confidence 78%. An opinion, not a finding.
Model opinion: suspicious, confidence 60%. An opinion, not a finding.
Model opinion: suspicious (target: West Paw), confidence 56%. An opinion, not a finding.
Model opinion: looks like abuse (target: MetaMask), confidence 82%. An opinion, not a finding.
Model opinion: suspicious, confidence 55%. An opinion, not a finding.
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.